{"id":38388,"date":"2019-06-02T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38388"},"modified":"2019-04-30T14:02:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T18:02:51","slug":"qotd-explaining-modern-female-sexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/06\/02\/qotd-explaining-modern-female-sexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Explaining modern female sexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a theory that for many women, sex, or rather agreeing to have sex is difficult, and especially so for the first time with a new partner. How else to explain the fact that so many women admitted that their first time with a new man was generally experienced in an alcoholic haze? (For those who haven\u2019t been keeping up, the source data is here<\/a>.) So if confronting herself about her \u201cslutty\u201d behavior (even if the sluttiness is only in her own mind), a woman would like to have an excuse like \u201cOh, but I was drunk\u2026\u201d and thus can excuse away or justify the indiscretion. Or else, as the original study showed, women can even explain away the drunkenness as just a regular part of the dating process, so therefore it\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n

I also believe that this is why so many women have rape fantasies, because \u201cOh, he forced me to do it\u2026\u201d is likewise an expression that denies the woman\u2019s [shameful] complicity in the act. (Of course, now that it\u2019s become okay to accuse a previous partner with actual rape as part of the excuse, the whole thing has become considerably more sinister, especially as such accusations can take place months or years afterwards and still be considered valid by law enforcement. But for the sake of argument, let\u2019s treat this scenario as but a blip on societal consciousness which will disappear at some point when women regain their sanity. We can only hope.) Certainly, this explains female submissiveness (outside a natural submissive personality anyway), which can be regarded (by women) as a kind of watered-down rape fantasy.<\/p>\n

The only time, I think, when self-delusion disappears is when a woman encounters a universal object of female desire, such as a hunky actor or popular musician. Even then, there is a \u201csafety in numbers\u201d excuse \u2014 \u201cOMG everybody<\/em> is crazy about him!\u201d \u2014 which makes it okay, or at least, provides a figleaf of an excuse for irresponsibility and sexual licentiousness. You only need a sliver of an excuse, and it will be acceptable, in other words.<\/p>\n

Kim du Toit, “Seeking Excuses”, Splendid Isolation<\/em><\/a>, 2017-04-24.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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