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Why are sexual relationships still biased in todays society?

Asked by Creena (13points) July 15th, 2015

Amongst peers, why in 2015 is it still demeaning for women to be involved in sexual relationships; yet men are praised for their sexual encounters?

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zenvelo's avatar

Patriarchy has not died, Millennials are not as progressive as they wish.

Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

It’s cultural.

Apparently_Im_The_Grumpy_One's avatar

Men are stereotypically praised. Personally, I find it equally distasteful for either gender to be promiscuous.

I don’t comply with that stereotype. But, of course, I’m an anomaly as a Christian here. Those who get my “praise” are those who waited until marriage, then actually stayed married. They are few and far between. Not surprisingly though, most of them stay married until death does them part.

Dutchess_III's avatar

It’s changed some.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

Because women are sluts and guys are studs~. Just because we have that Y chromosome doesn’t make us mature. Some of us are still little boys, some of us have the me Tarzan you Jane complex. You have to sort through the chaff of immature guys to get to the good ones. A woman gives me the greatest gift she can give me, and I’m going to dis her? No way. (gift is a lousy word for it, but I didn’t have a better one)
And welcome to fluther. Hope you like it here.

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

In all but the smallest pockets (let me get out my microscope) I don’t see it.

Dutchess_III's avatar

You don’t see it @Hypocrisy_Central? You who has made comments about the girls getting pregnant out of wedlock, and what hussies they are… (“Why buy the cow when the milk is free” comes to mind as one of your comments,) and nary a comment about the men who left them high and dry, pregnant with their kid?

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

^ You who has made comments about the girls getting pregnant out of wedlock, and what hussies they are… (“Why buy the cow when the milk is free” comes to mind as one of your comments,) and nary a comment about the men who left them high and dry, pregnant with their kid?
The OP was asking from a societal perspective, I am thinking. I HAVE commented on those types of men, and how they are not truly men, but women love them anyhow. Giving away their body with little or no commitment is more on why they are surprised when they did not get more out of the relationship because there was little invested in the 1st place. From what I have seen around here, a woman can bring a guy home from the club twice a week and boink like bunnies and no one would hardly bat an eyelash. Look at how many guys Miley Cyrus and Brittney Spears ran through and they are still idols to many, many young women and girls who don’t care how many times they were on their back getting rotoroutered. What I may think certainly is not what society thinks, (which makes real life like Fluther here).

stanleybmanly's avatar

This issue is unlike the others in that it lacks aggrieved advocates campaigning in public view. This situation has a lot in common with other examples of societal injustice, but little conscious resistance to the realities on the ground. One merely has to consider terms like cunt, slut, or whore; words of devastating power with no male equivalent, yet thrown around with with abandon. Some consciousness raising is in order and if the women reading this think they can wait for the men in this society to do the work—well good luck with that!

kritiper's avatar

If they weren’t biased in some way, they would be meaningless. Or deadly. When AIDS first came on the scene, many gay men were having sex willy-nilly all over the place. No bias, no control.

Dutchess_III's avatar

I don’t quit get your comment, @kritiper. I think that the double standard has no valuable meaning.

kritiper's avatar

@Dutchess_III . You don’t think the double-standard has any valuable meaning is because you are not a man and don’t understand a man’s sex drive. You only see it from the viewpoint of a woman. Men are sexually driven creatures. If it weren’t for sex, we wouldn’t get involved with anyone at all, ever. There would be no reason to. Women are driven by their need for security, so need that other individual around. There is no double-standard when you compare men to women in this primal aspect.

Dutchess_III's avatar

However, women know the surest way to get a man, at least for a moment, is to have sex with him. For that man to turn around and call her a slut, when he’s the one who gave up without a fight, is just wrong.

Esedess's avatar

A man has to work his ass off to get some.
A woman has to work her ass off to keep the dogs at bay.
Praise comes with the achievement of the more difficult task respectively.

Cosmos's avatar

It has a lot to do with biology and a bit to do with attitudes. I’ll try to stay within the rules of this website and say that concerning biology it is better to give than to receive. Even when women are as strong as (or stronger than) men they are still expected play a more submissive role. I think in most Western countries women have a better deal now than say a hundred years ago. As long as female prostitution exists the attitude won’t change.

Dutchess_III's avatar

I don’t think any women are looking for praise. In fact, that would be ridiculous. Men are easy (not meant as an insult, it’s just the way it is.)
We’re just asking not to be insulted when the men have reached their objective.

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Prostitution exist because men are easy, homely men maybe more so. In spite of all that hogwash and BS a homely guy is not going to get a hot woman by his smile or bubbly personality. He will never even be allowed in the arena. He can have a hot call girl, she don’t care if he is fat, homely, or as dumb as a box of rocks, all she cares is that he have an MBA (Massive Bank Account), he has that, she is happy and will invite him to poke every major orifice she has. Some guys not as homely but don’t want to play the game, can use the same call girls (or less) because they want to get their jollies off but they don’t want to have to put meat on the table for which they get it from. There is an equal equivalent for males, they were called cads (which no one uses anymore), Casanovas, playboys, gigolos, but mostly today as dogs. But even that nomenclature doesn’t seem to faze some women, knowing this they still chase after a dog because he is hunky with a six pack but so dumb he can’t even count to six. And if women are getting a bad rap, they don’t help themselves, who is posting more topless, and underwear selfies online, the guys or the girls?

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

This has got to be one of the most discouraging threads I have seen on here in a while. The cretin males and females are just making me sad. Come on, we can do better than this.

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

^ Come on, we can do better than this.
As a society we should be doing better than we are, but it ain’t gonna happen. Who is boinking who more, from what I have seen, it doesn’t make much of a difference. These days if you are not boinking like bunnies be you make or female you are seen as being less than human because no one wants to touch you sexually; which is supposedly the gold standard of these days. Here in the US the trouble is society doesn’t know which side of the sexual fence it wants to be on. The way society goes about it is like trying to catch palls of smoke from the same fire, determining some puffs are good while the others straight bad. People want to say this sex is good, that is bad, that is icky but if they want to do it…..and all basically personal ideology. The way the US treat sex is like wanting really sweet candy but you knows your teeth will hurt if you eat it, yet you can’t leave it alone and bitch when your teeth hurt. Sex is feebly seen as special because supposedly you don’t let anyone into your naughty bit zone as you would bowling with them, yet it had been in actuality, reduced to a mere commodity; no one wants to wait for it, certainly not until marriage. It is just another thing on the punch list of a relationship, and sometimes there is not even a relationship.

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