Originally Posted by myface:
“Maybe you would feel a bit dodgy about it if it was your Dad, but you wouldn't feel ANYWHERE NEAR as badly about it as you would if everyone knew your MUM was getting a portion from every Man and his Dog.”
But that is only because of how women are perceived within our society. How many other parts of the world treat women differently than we do here in the western world? Fortunately a few, and as a result of not perceiving women the way that we do, the interactions and response to female sexuality is different.
Not everyone is going to agree with you. Obviously, you are entitled to be as staunch in your view as you want, as that is how you are interacting with the world, and that is 100% fact for you. But not everyone else experiences the world through the filter that you use to perceive it. It is important to remember that.
We live in a misogynistic, patriarchal society that has ridiculous hang-ups regarding sex. Couple sexuality - which in its own right is taboo - with that of femininity, which has all sorts of screwy reasoning attached to it, and you are going to get what we have today. It is ALL about perception.
If I found out a female family member was sleeping with a different man every night, I would not be happy. But NOT because she is a woman and ought to be behaving with more 'class.' Fact of the matter is, women like sex. A LOT! The reason why I would not be happy is because of how the whole thing is set up. As you said yourself, it is largely seen as ok for men to sleep with loads of women and be praised for it. Women doing the same thing is frowned upon. It is largely ok for men to use women sexually, and everyone applauds it. If women do it, they are evil vixens. We, as women always get the raw end of the deal. So for a woman to be engaging in sex with a different man every night, it MIGHT suggest to me that they don't very high self-worth, due to the fact that it is a well known fact that men will often use women for sex and then toss her away after she has become a notch on his bedpost. I would want that female family member to want more for herself. Nobody is happy when they are being used for what is between their legs, and it is more common for women to be pursued PURELY for what is between their legs. Plus, I would be worried about her getting STD's, and if she was being safe. But the actual Sex would not be the issue for me. Her emotional and physical safety would be, and even then I could be wrong and she could be having sex with a different man every night from a place of empowerment. Not everything is black and white.
If it was a male family member, I would be questioning his motive for doing so, because of the ideas about male sexuality that our society perpetuates. But I would be concerned for his emotional and physical health just the same as with the female family member. It is important to remember that we all have, installed within us, societal programming.