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Originally Posted by GirlySports
It's interesting to me that today's society it is totally opposite. Women are not supposed to enjoy sex or attract many men. I know it's more open in the western world but women are still stigmatized as sluts or someone's 'old shoes' (a common chinese expresion).
I wonder how, where, when and what caused to shift from one extreme to another.
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I think it's the whole attitude that sex is "done" to a woman as opposed to "with" them. This is perpetualized pretty consistently in popular culture as well. How many times have we seen a woman's first sexual encounter dramatized as some life-altering decision in television shows or movies, whereas with young men it seems to be a race and the choice of partners is treated as completely arbitrary. We also see it in dramatizations of flings or one-night stands, where the woman is often characterised as being distraught when the man doesn't pursue a relationship with her after a sexual encounter.
I think this is kind of where the slut-shaming comes in. We treat sex as something men enjoy physically, but something a woman does out of obligation or weakness, which turns the woman into the victim of her sexual partner regardless of consent.