KittenWithaTwist
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The statement I am bringing to you is this: ~ Men find nothing wrong with having multiple partners, only women seem to think that is wrong. Now why is that? ~ Your Thoughts? Actually, what I find most often is that it is our peers who find it obscene that a woman should have multiple sex partners. Other men (especially those not included, but also those who are-sometimes), other women (particularly our mothers, sisters, grandmothers, nosey neighbors), co-workers, friends...usually anyone who doesn't not have a somewhat informed view of polyamory believe that it is wrong for a woman to "take a walk around the block". The view of a slutty woman is traditionally coupled with the seductress or the whore, while the slutty man (which, I have been told, does not actually exist) is coupled with the virile stud, spreading his seed and being congratulated at the bar by all his buddies. It is traditionally considered that the male, as the "dominant" (that is, in literature and art, not in life) is permitted to get as many of his offspring pushed into the world, while the female, as the "submissive" (again, in literature and art, not in life), must simply lie back and take it. After all, how is a woman to be premiscuous(sp?) if she is constantly barefoot and pregnant? The term "slut" seems to have been taken back by many modern women, particularly those of a more open-minded stance, to represent the woman who desires and asks for sex and pleasures of a sexual nature. This new view does not carry the abhorrent undertone that it once did (at least, in sex-positive circles), and leaves women to be accepted as sexually provocative members of society. Sadly, in most of America, sex still seems to be good for men and baaaaaaad for women.
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"Time travel: It's a cornocopia of disturbing concepts." ~Ron Stoppable
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