Let’s take a look at the widely held myth that women are not naturally promiscuous.
First, a few biological facts:
- Women are able to have sex at any time
- Women are more sexually responsive than men (more orgasms both in quantity, variety and quality)
- Women can generally last sexually longer than men
- Women tend to get bored and lose interest in sex more easily than men
- Women generally need evidence of positive male interest and attention to want to have sex
- Women tend to have a less physical “urge” for sex, rather a more contextual interest in sex
- Women’s interest in sex sparks up with a new sex/love interest
These do nothing to imply that women are less sexual than men. In fact they imply that women could well be more sexual than men. These facts do not imply that women are naturally monogamous. In fact, they could be interpreted as showing that women need more than one man to be sexually satisfied.
Now, let’s look at some historical facts:
- For the past couple of thousand years or so girls in the west have been raised to think that they’re not sexual and shouldn’t be sexual.
- Girls and women who were overtly sexual... read more