xssve
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If you are raised this way, it's something you expect, it's a common theme in all the worlds major religions, the Madonna/Whore dichotomy, you find it in the mainstream of traditional Christianity and Islam, Hinduism, and whatever it is the Chinese do: i.e., the wife is there to birth and raise children, take care of the home, and there is a lot of drama associated with ever seeing her as a sex object - it's a form of objectification, kind of reverse objectification, and the whole status system in these religions revolves around it, and presumably, there are compensations of some sort for the women, mileage may vary. i.e., sexual objectification treats you as sex object, denying your humanity, i.e, the other facets of your personality, your role as mother, professional, whatever, which many women find objectionable - the reverse venerates you as wife and mother but denies you as a sexual being - which many women find equally dehumanizing and objectionable. They both, taken to the logical extreme, promote a specific facet of your being at the expense of others. Lot's of Oedipal conflicts in there I suspect, and not a little just plain old avarice, jealousy, compensation for real or perceived inadequacies, etc., and much of the "war between the sexes" is about trying to find a happy medium, it's an ongoing thing - but again, if you've been raised subject to this binary mythme it can be very difficult to break away from it, the social inertia is enormous. The traditional compromise is wife with mistress on the side, though there are few less punitive cultures that engage in more democratic forms of social monogamy, without apparently causing the world to come to an end, and wiiwd, which allows you to explore different roles including sexual, within a monogamous dyad, preferably without some crisis of consciousness that threatens the foundations of your very being, which some people call, "acting like an adult". In short, it's highly unlikely you are going to ever change this guy, if your sexual health and well being is important to you, however you conceive of it, then you should act accordingly, it's a human thing, just turns out people people define human differently.
< Message edited by xssve -- 4/16/2013 9:33:54 AM >
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