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ORIGINAL: tj444
hmmm, but then one can't be a slut if they are in a relationship??? I want to be a slut even when i am in a relationship with the benefactor of my sluttiness.

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but to me you're not a slut if you're only sleeping with the person you're in a relationship with

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ORIGINAL: Arpig

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but to me you're not a slut if you're only sleeping with the person you're in a relationship with

Nothing to do with it.
Slut is defined variously as
A prostitute (not applicable at all)
A wanton woman (applicable...wanton means hard to control, or lewd/bawdy)
A saucy girl (applicable...saucy in this context means impertinently bold and impudent or amusingly forward and flippant)

Now are you honestly going to tell me that one cannot be a hard to control lewd and bawdy woman within a relationship?
Or an impudent, amusingly forward girl?

I didn't think so.

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Words don't mean what we want them to mean, we don't get to change them into 'badges of honor.' They have specific meanings defined by the dictionary.

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Word Origin & History
slut
c.1400, "a dirty, slovenly, or untidy woman," probably cognate with dialectal Ger. Schlutt  "slovenly woman," dialectal Swed. slata  "idle woman, slut," and Du. slodder  "slut," but the ultimate origin is doubtful. Chaucer uses sluttish  (late 14c.) in reference to the appearance of an untidy man. Also "a kitchen maid, a drudge" (mid-15c.; hard pieces in a bread loaf from imperfect kneading were called ' slut's pennies , 18c.). Meaning "woman of loose character, bold hussy" is attested from mid-15c.; playful use of the word, without implication of loose morals, is attested from 1660s.
"Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut, and pleases us mightily." [Pepys, diary, Feb. 21, 1664]
Sometimes used 19c. as a euphemism for bitch  to describe a female dog. There is a group of North Sea Gmc. words in sl-  that mean "sloppy," and also "slovenly woman," and that tend to evolve toward "woman of loose morals" (cf. slattern, also English dial. slummock  "a dirty, untidy, or slovenly person," 1861; M.Du. slore  "a sluttish woman").

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ORIGINAL: Muttling

I've frequently been called a "pain slut."  Since I have male hardware and emotionally identify myself as a male, does this mean I can't be considered a slut?    <sniff, sniff>

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ORIGINAL: WyldHrt

Which definition of 'slut' is the correct one?

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The word has a meaning. It is clear. If you want to call yourselves sluts than you should understand what the word means before using it.

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a slut is someone who sleeps around with multiple partners. Anyone else can call themselves what they want, but if they call themselves a slut I will treat them like one rofl.

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ORIGINAL: imperatrixx
Well if it's an open relationship I guess so...but to me you're not a slut if you're only sleeping with the person you're in a relationship with.

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ORIGINAL: Arpig

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a slut is someone who sleeps around with multiple partners. Anyone else can call themselves what they want, but if they call themselves a slut I will treat them like one rofl.

So a slovenly woman can't be a slut, a saucy girl can't be a slut? You're overlooking the whole point. The word has more than one meaning, even according to the various dictionaries. Therefore, what you are doing is insisting on using your own personal usage, and deriding anybody else who doesn't use the same definition. It's you, with your Acadamie Francaise approach, that is the rofl, sorry.  I'm not saying your usage is wrong, just that it is not the only correct one. The word has several nuanced meanings, and any of them are correct. I have used the word intending to mean every definition presented here at one time or another, perhaps that is why I am disputing the claims of those who say it has but a single meaning, and why I find those who insist that their usage is in any way superior to be laughable.

Hey imperatrixx? Thanks for the yuks and chuckles.

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ORIGINAL: tj444

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ORIGINAL: imperatrixx
Well if it's an open relationship I guess so...but to me you're not a slut if you're only sleeping with the person you're in a relationship with.

no, not in an open relationship. We disagree on the meaning of the word slut, I believe a person can be a slut with just one person that they love. The alternative is too boring and unfulfilling for me to contemplate.....

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there's no shock value to it.

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I recently learned that it's bad to call women sluts because it has a long history of patriarchal something or other so I now make an effort to use the more neutral (although technically incorrect) term "whore" when talking about a woman whose sexual choices I disapprove of.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers

If there such people as sluts...we are all sluts.

Most of the men I know are sluts.... and those who arent wish they were!