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? asked in Social ScienceGender Studies · 9 years ago

Why are so many men (and women) intimidated/angered by open female sexuality?

Of course, this doesn't apply to all men.

From what I've seen in society, many men are perfectly fine with guys sleeping around, but if a woman does the same thing, they get angry and call her a "whore" or a "slut."

I've asked some men why it's more offensive for a woman to sleep around and they oftentimes have answered "because it's easier for women to get laid." How is that relevant? How is one's ability to get laid at all relevant to how often they can sleep around? I mean, pretty people get laid more easily than ugly people; is it wrong for a good-looking guy to have more sex than a plain-looking woman?

I hope I'm not offending anyone, but I see this all too often. Many men will congratulate other men for "getting laid," but if a woman does it, it's somehow "wrong."

And please, don't derail this subject by asking an irrelevant question like "why do women always get custody of children" or something. Those are separate issues that have specific opinions related to them. I'm discussing this issue in particular.

I just don't see how people's sexual life is anyone's business at all, unless they're hurting someone (i.e. breaking up a relationship). On top of this, I don't see why many men and women view female sexuality as more "offensive" than male sexuality.

PS: I understand the risks of promiscuity, and I'm not necessarily saying everyone should sleep around. I just don't see why women get degraded more for following a biological drive.

Update:

That's What She Said: EXACTLY! It's like some people can't do basic math. Unless a guy is sleeping with another guy, every time he gets laid, a woman also gets laid (with him).

Update 2:

Zack: Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize that you, as a man, know exactly what my experience as a woman is like. And by the way, I stated that not all men think this way. This isn't bias; this is something that women see in society every day. I can't even tell you how many guys have told me that it's worse for a woman to sleep around since it's easier for her to get laid.

Please point out what, exactly, is "wrong" about my question. You know very well that there are men (and women) who shame women for sleeping around, but not men.

Update 3:

Quo Vadis: Instead of throwing out insults at me, why don't you tell me how I'm wrong? How can you, a man, teach me how my experiences were all wrong and in my head? Did I IMAGINE all those guys who state that it's worse for a woman to sleep around? I have a 152 IQ and I'm quite smart (call me arrogant if you want). I don't imagine these experiences, and most women don't. Many men don't do this, but many DO.

Update 4:

Mike DiPascale: You completely ignored the point I made. How "easily" someone can get laid is completely irrelevant. Whether or not someone worked hard to get laid is no reason to judge them as less. So what if a woman can easily get laid? So what if she uses that to her advantage? How is that wrong? How is that hurting you or anyone else? Keep in mind: for every guy that gets laid, a girl is also getting laid (unless he's gay). Valuing someone's sexual freedom isn't about "how hard you worked to get laid." In the end, it's just sex, and we are ALL hard-wired to want it. Women can't reproduce all the time like men can, but believe me, our sex drives are there throughout the month. We enjoy sex just as much as men, even if it's harder for us to orgasm. Just because women sleep with "10% of the male population," according to you, doesn't make it right to call her a slut just because she can get laid more easily than yo

Update 5:

Quo Vadis: The fact that you arrogantly tell me that I'm intellectually inferior to you, accuse me of being "indoctrinated," and completely dismiss my perceptions of reality are really quite frustrating. Why spend the extra time to write long insults to me, when you could be using that time to intelligently explain to me why I am so very wrong, and why I completely imagined how I often see women treated for sleeping around? Why the effort to insult me and not explain things to my inferior mind, unless you have no argument and are just a very angry person?

Update 6:

Zack: "For once"? I'm hardly ever on here. I doubt you even know who I am. Alright, educate me instead of wasting your time insulting me and calling me stupid: how can I write this question in an unbiased way? What, exactly, is biased about my experiences? I (and many others) agree that women are often treated more negatively (by men and women alike) for sleeping around, while men are less likely to be treated negatively. Please, insulting me doesn't prove your point; it just makes you look like you have no point, and must resort to ad hominem attacks instead.

Update 7:

Wow, why is it so hard for some men on this board to explain to me why I'm so stupid and wrong, instead of just throwing ad hominem attacks at me? It takes just as much time to wrote degrading paragraphs that insult my personal character, as it does to explain to me how/why I'm wrong.

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  • Leah
    Lv 4
    9 years ago
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    This is a very good question, and I've also asked myself this before.

    Perhaps it could be, that the man, wants to think of him as the only one being with a woman he's with. My brother is a "man Whore" I've heard him say many times, I won't get with that girl, she's had every tom dick and hairy. I'm thinking to myself in the meantime, you've had every sally, sue and becky, so why should it be such a big deal.

    I think sometimes and SOME men, think they are the kings.. they rule. What they do doesn't matter because they are men. Women however can sleep around get pregnant or just sleep around with many men and a man will call her a slut because she's given herself away, then they say she has no respect for her body why should they respect it. I just think its a man/ girl thing. While being single and runnin around, a man would prob care less who they got with goes for a woman as well with same thinking. But when they are ready to settle down, most ( on both sides) seek for someone differently. They begin looking in other places then a club or a bar to pick up a woman or man because this is the person they want to bring home to momma and someone that does care about themselfs. This is a very confusing question, because men and women are very different from eachother ( obviously body wise) but also brain wise. And asides from that we ARE all different. I know m husband has been with other women before me and I've been with other men before him, does that make me a slut?? No, I'm human and made mistakes and had fun while being single. Maybe not the "fun" others think but lived a single life. Now that I'm married my husband becomes my one and only and I'm his one and only. I think being a slut would be to cheat on him and him cheat on me. Idk if I'm making any sence at all. This is just my perspective. Good luck on finding the answers cause I sure as heck would LOVE to know as well.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Go read some of the female profiles on dating sites -- most women are extremely adamant about being defined as women and go to extreme lengths to try to prove they're not women -- they wear ridiculous clothing, ripped up jeans and tie die junk, but won't dressup like a woman, they get mad when someone says they look nice or beautiful, generally they mostly all look like a mess. Very rarely do you ever see them wearing hose or heels or jewelry. Only the real, feminine women do that. THEY are the real women, the rest want to be men.

    They take pictures with hanguns and fish and their multiple huge and to be honest dangerous dogs. The idea is to scare men off. They say things that are abusive openly and rant often about they want to find the perfect man, but will say in the same breath -- "don't even think about sex" on their profiles. They think men are stupid. They think we don't know what they mean by it when they say things like that and frankly it's offensive.

    They will do anything and everything to put on a show that they are male. Which consequently, makes them highy unattractive to the vast majority of males in the population -- if this weren't true, there would not be a plethora of women on POF and OKCUPID that are divorced and looking. Go look on youtube for dating site reviews by men, they're absolutely hysterically funny. Eventually, women will get the picture. Men (who aren't gay) don't want to date other men. So yes, they get aggressive when a psuedo male enters their territory and attempts to **** with them openly and abusively on their "dating" profiles...

    The thing is, women are super agressive these days. Not in a logical or expressive or feminine sense, but they are basically evolving into men which is not good for the average man -- generally no man wants to go out with another man unless he's gay (and there's nothing wrong with that). But, women have forgotten they're dating men, not each other...

  • ?
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    Because they have a Christian background

    USA, Europe and all these countries in the North it's normal,

    There is still people that see nothing wrong in a woman having several husbands at the same time, the Fulanis women (Peulhs in French) once a year go to pre-marital ceremony where men jump up all night and they choose the one they find the more attractive as their husband.They can choose a second one next year.

    So it's really culturally speaking

    Especielly if whole South America and Africa(before Islamisation) used to be matriarcal(leaded by women)so polyandry was common(married to several husbands).

    Also, It is still legal to have more than 1 husband in Bouthan kingdom, in Asia.

    It's not at all in a European mindset to let a woman have multiple partners

    But if you happen to write that question, it means that these men needs to remain in question

    Source(s): french girl from Fulani descent
  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    "From what I've seen in society, many men are perfectly fine with guys sleeping around, but if a woman does the same thing, they get angry and call her a "whore" or a "slut."

    I think double standard is fairly rare and most common among high school students. It's very rare I've ever come across an adult with that view. Most people either think having several sex partners if fine, or they are against it, usually on religious/moral grounds regardless of which gender it is. In fact, I've asked several times how many people here hold that double standard and it's very, very rare anyone does. Ask for yourself and see how many really hold that double standard.

    Why are people against female sexuality? - I think most due to religious influence as well as first and second wave feminism which loudly proclaimed it to to be demeaning of all women.

    Most cultures were happy being sexual until the missionaries came along and told them it was wrong and immoral.

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    God's gift from Heaven is the kinky woman, IMO. Sexual tendencies in a relationship is kind of like picking a place to go for dinner-talk, talk, talk about it. If either of you feel uncomfortable, and there is no compromise, it wouldn't be sensible, or fair, to continue this type of relationship. Maybe become friends, close friends, or resume and associate type friendship, but don't become something where sex is involved. As far as a guy/girl giving me the "What did you just say/do?!" face during, finish, and spend the next day mostly out of the house 'til you're ready to laugh or apologize, and, ultimately, talk about it. Good Luck! :)

  • 6 years ago

    I'm not intimidated by women if they pretend or flirt with me I do what I want if you're going to fly put out don't **** around and then is rape when a guy doesn't you're the 1 in to go with it so deal with what you put out first if you're willing to put out your vagina be willing to take to cook

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Because they have a view on how people should behave based on myths about the sexes "places." Generally Victorian ones that the Victorians didn't even live up to.

    I'm fine with anyone sleeping around who wants to. I've done more than my fair myself. And as far as I'm concerned if that's all that makes a woman a slut, then I am (or at least have been) a supermeagagigaslut. <--- I don't think that's a good thing, but no one not involved has the right to tell me it's a bad thing either. Ok, yes they do I guess, but I have the right to tell them they don't know what they're on about so can go see if it will bend to reach their *** and if it does, f*ck themselves.

    But as far as I'm concerned "slutiness" has nothing to do with promiscuity, it's to do with how you carry yourself and advertise that promiscuity.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    It's the circumstances of the act and society's subconscious views on human relations. Everything is connected. Men, by and large, are expected to initiate relations with a woman. Society as a whole traditionally believes than men should be the pursuers, and women should be the pursued. This is ingrained into us from a young age, and people's preferences reflect this. Many women actually want to be pursued, many men actually want to pay for a first date (to "flex" their wealth). The subtext of this is clear, men who ask women for dates are like male peacocks dancing around a a fertile female. Only the best is chosen, and the prize is her fertility. It is something that is protected, worked for, and valuable.

    In addition, a male who is releasing sperm in a dozen others wouldn't ruin his primary partners ability to have her own children with him. Sperm is cheap. A female sleeping with 12 other men, on the other hand, would bring to question..."whose baby is it?"

    There is also the physical aspect of it-men being the "penetrators", the female body being smaller, voice being higher, ect. People subconsciously place men in the position of power during the act of sex, men give, women receive.

    My personal take on the matter is this:

    ^That's all a load of crap. We aren't monkeys, birth control pills were invented decades ago, I don't enjoy sex with women who behave too submissively, and sex isn't something to be congratulating yourself over. I don't understand people who haven't grown out of the frat house. Sex is easy. Any guy should be able to get it as long as he has half a brain and doesn't look like Herman Munster. Good relationships are really hard to come by. There's plenty of fish in the sea, and plenty of them will eat you alive. The world can be a vicious, ugly place, and good, trustworthy people are far too rare for someone like me to be disqualifying them over trivial personal details.

    Source(s): My apologies for the grammatical errors.
  • 9 years ago

    There is something very deeply planted in some peoples minds of how a woman should behave.

    I think it has something to do with reproduction.

    A man is always fertile, and for as many times as he can manage it, he is capable of making god knows how many women pregnant.

    So therefore, its ok for him to behave like that.

    A woman on the other hand is fertile for something like 4 days a month, and if she gets pregnant she doesnt "need" to have sex for almost another year.

    So therefore, its not ok to behave like that.

    These arnt my beliefs by the way, I dont give a monkeys wotsit how people behave, but I think what I have stated above, is the reason why so many people have a problem with it.

  • 9 years ago

    I felt a little intimidated when a 16 year old woman of the world took my virginity at age 15 but I got over it and never looked back.

    I just wish more woman acted on their sexuality instead of bitterly repressing it.

    If I call you a slut it's meant as a compliment.

    You sweet slutty thing you.....

    RScott

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