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How many feminists are against slut shaming as for female sexual liberation? If not all, I would have to say the vast majority.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

and why?? because it has been used as a derogatory term since the ohhhhhh what 8thth century if not before...
Its only in the past few years I havent wanted to pull a guys testicles out thru his nostrils at the double standard and the "attempt to shame" now, Im happy with my sexuality. There in lies the difference:)

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

and why?? because it has been used as a derogatory term since the ohhhhhh what 8thth century if not before...
Its only in the past few years I havent wanted to pull a guys testicles out thru his nostrils at the double standard and the "attempt to shame" now, Im happy with my sexuality. There in lies the difference:)

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ORIGINAL: Aylee

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

and why?? because it has been used as a derogatory term since the ohhhhhh what 8thth century if not before...
Its only in the past few years I havent wanted to pull a guys testicles out thru his nostrils at the double standard and the "attempt to shame" now, Im happy with my sexuality. There in lies the difference:)

Chaucer, 1400's I think.  It was a couple more centuries until it was sexualized, if I recall correctly. 

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ORIGINAL: naughtynick81
How many feminists are against slut shaming as for female sexual liberation? If not all, I would have to say the vast majority.

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ORIGINAL: http://thechicktionary.com/post/278257154/are-feminists-guilty-of-virgin-shaming
“Virgin shaming” is a common accusation leveled at feminists by social conservatives and the religious right. I’ve read countless books and articles about how feminism encourages sexual promiscuity and snubs sexual abstinent women, but much of this literature discusses feminism as a monolith and fails to recognize the distinction between criticizing compulsory abstinence and abstinence by choice. It’s particularly telling that there’s a dearth of citations referring back to feminist writings. Who are these feminists bad-mouthing virgins? Are they scholars or activists? Second-wavers or third-wavers?

Historically speaking, the more radical branches of second-wave feminism even advocated abstinence from heterosexual intercourse, because of the view that women as a systematically oppressed group could not adequately give consent within a patriarchal society. Granted, not everyone takes Andrea Dworkin or separatist feminism seriously, but it’s inaccurate to portray the entire feminist movement as pro-sex across the board. There were very visible and vocal feminists on the fringe who, as a means of political protest, flat-out refused to participate in intercourse. I have yet to encounter contemporary pro-abstinence literature that acknowledges this past.

I’ll grant that contemporary feminism continues to be highly critical of virginity as a patriarchal social construct, but the only time virgins themselves are disparaged is when they expect the rest of society to conform to their beliefs about sex. There is also a tendency to critique “choosing abstinence” as a form of false consciousness, but that’s still a far cry from “virgin shaming”. After exhausting Google scholar, I haven’t found a single piece of feminist writing that explicitly condemns women for choosing to abstain from sex. I have found two articles (one on Bitch and one on Feministing) which discuss whether it’s possible for an abstinent woman to be sex-positive. I think it is.

So is this accusation of “virgin shaming” based on misconceptions? Are there any examples of feminists — academic or otherwise — actively discouraging abstinence? And if not, then where do these accusations come from?