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Love vs. Lust (split off from Things that make you go 'hunh?')
Monika:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on August 25, 2009, 06:32:40 pm ---Let me ask you this. Do you really feel that there are no differences whatsoever between male and female attitudes and behavior? That is, do you think that men and women, though obviously different on the outside, are indistinguishable on the inside? If not -- that is, if you think it's possible that men and women do differ on the inside -- then why would sexuality be an exception? Or if so -- if you think differences between men and women are just external -- then would you attribute all of the differences in male/female behavior, throughout all of history and across all cultures, to purely bodily differences such as physical strength rather than anything emotional or behavioral?
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I think there are differences between female attitudes and behavior. To me the question is what differences is a result of genetics, and what differences is due to social factors. I think one should be careful pinpoint certain types of behavior as "biological" because it can easily be misused. And whatever biological differenses between the sexes there might be, I personally beleve that thousands of years of of social codes imposed on human sexuality has left its mark to the extent that social factors might almost overule the biological ones.
Monika:
--- Quote from: Mikaela on August 25, 2009, 07:26:02 pm ---In reading through this thread, I'm wondering...
If it is true that many women's behaviour is turning more "like men's" when it comes to having constant and casual sex, how do we know that this is "the real and non-repressed" women's behaviour? It seems to me that being sexually desirable, presenting oneself as a sexual being/sexual object and expressing oneself through frequent and also, if necessary, casual sex is being held forth as one of the western culture's current standards for both male and female success. You meet this cultural trait everywhere you turn - in all sorts of shows, commercials, ads, performances, billboards, movies - very much come across as soft porn and focus pretty directly on sexsexsex. I'm merely observing, not passing judgment, btw - and I'm not a prude. (I hope!!)
But I would postulate that women's current behavioural changes may be culturally conditioned as much as previous times' forced abstinence or limited sexual activity for women ever were. That frequent casual sex with many partners may in fact have a considerable element of cultural conditioning in it, and not only represent a return to our original, unrepressed, self-asserting, self-realizing state.
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Good point, Mikaela. I would say that everything (or most things at least) we do is culturally conditioned, but the question here is what came first. I.e what´s the hen and what´s the egg? Is the "sexsexsex" in shows, commercials, ads etc what has triggered that kind of behavior in women, or is it itself a result of a change it the attitudes of women and society?
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