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Originally posted by rogue49
unfortuanately sometimes viewpoints don't change as fast as culture.
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Very enlightened thinking, rogue49. I wonder if it could be said that ALL stigmas are simply a matter of society and culture not yet having caught up with reality? If that's the nature of a stigma? There are some stigmas that I'm not quite ready to say are just backward social conditioning. Incest, for instance. I guess I could just be highly conditioned about it, but it still seems wrong.
As far as this particular one goes, what society says and what many of us here at TFP say are likely to be very different. It's Double Standard Number One that a woman with many sexual partners is dirty and wrong, and a man with many sexual partners is a hero and a stud. Doesn't make it right, but in the minds of many, many people, it's true.
Explain it? I can't. Doesn't make much sense, when you actually sit down to think about it.