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TigressLily -> RE: Feminist Sex (10/7/2013 9:54:21 PM)
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Without the concept of self-empowerment that feminism and other movements promoted when I was growing up, my sexuality could never have been expressed as openly as it was once I started coming of age in the 70s. It was often referred to as the Women's Liberation Movement. As I look back, I can see that I was greatly influenced by Simone de Beauvoir when I read her classic 1949 book The Second Sex and the works of cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead. These were accomplished women who led by example. Mead didn't have to label herself a feminist--she was a living example of it in action.
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ORIGINAL: crazyml
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ORIGINAL: Vuilste
I would like to start a discussion centering around feminist and postfeminist ideals with regards to women's sexuality. If feminist logic advocates equality for women in the workplace, what does this mean for women in the bedroom?
By and large, most of the feminists I encounter are sex positive
I've already mentioned that I was more influenced by men who were feminists, but that isn't entirely true. Part of crazyml's post got me to reflect upon this issue. Yes, I found myself getting aroused by the works of Female Supremacist Robert Graves when I couldn't have been more than the pre-pubescent age of 10 (Encyclopaedia of Classical Greek Mythology, The White Goddess), so this is what stands out in my mind. I was a precocious child, so I read every sex manual I could get my hands on, which were informative on some levels, not so much on others.
There was a pervasive climate of open sexuality, carried over from the Free Love, Let It All Hang Out 60s, and there's no way for me to know how much of it was due to feminism or other factors. I have no idea where the below commentary is coming from because I am a straight female who had sex with straight males, not other females (beyond adolescent experimentation), and there have always been plenty of willing males to choose from:
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ORIGINAL: naughtynick81
Contemporary feminism seems to be about liberating women's sexuality while trying to regiment men's.
I may have been less inhibited than a lot of the guys were, but that was because I was usually more knowledgeable than they were about sexual matters, not because they felt they weren't free to express their heterosexuality. Believe me, nobody has to force a horny young male to have vanilla-style sexual relations. Judgmental sexual attitudes and double standards do exist, but I don't see where any of these arose from feminism. I stayed within relationships, so I was never judged harshly or looked upon by others as being promiscuous since I didn't have a bunch of sex partners. I never viewed sexual liberation as a license to have casual sex just because that's what the boys were doing. In fact, if it had been possible, I would have stayed with one man and only one man for all these years.
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