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Originally Posted by Searcher
why are women judged by the amount of sexual partners they may or may not have had? Surely as long as its safe - concensual and clean it should be all irrelevent....in todays modern world I find it fasinating how we still have so many double standards! Would a man ever get called a bike if he had lots of different partners??
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EXACTLY!!! All these preconceptions of sex and our idea of the slut are complete social constructions from a European Victorian gender standard.
A woman is supposed to be good and pure, while a man can act as he pleases. A woman that has experienced sex for pleasure with someone other than her husband is a "fallen woman" and can never attain a label other than that of a prostitute.
If we look through history, European Christian ideas are the only ones that take sexuality to such a harsh level. Other cultures, such as indigenous ones of North America, are very open to sexuality. In some tribes, women exchanged sex for goods to gain economic freedom and power that is independant from her husband that was NOT considered prostitution. And isn't it ironic that in Indigenous cultures that women were considered to be the man's equal, if not greater?
The term slut is only used by people to disenfranchise them from sexual freedom and equality.