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No, it wasn't "just" that, though certainly that happened/happens in some cases.
While women were expected to be virgins, weren't also men? |
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I agree this morality is a human social creation, I just don't think its origin is as simple as
patriarchal. In our species as with many other mammal species the male does want to make sure his
genetics are passed on and that his defense of his mate and his offspring is worth the effort and
worth laying his own life on the line if need be. HOWEVER, the females in our species also know the
incentive for the male to provide and protect hinges in part on the offspring being from that male
and not from some stranger or from unknown origins. In fact I'd say ALL females know if their baby
is somehow proven to not be from a particular male and that male finds out about it after the fact
it may be a relationship ender and result in the woman being unprotected or unprovided for by the
male. SO my point is BOTH genders willfully enter into this morality, it isn't just patriarchal.
In fact the female's decision to try to uphold this morality is in effect an enticement, a selling
point, a hook to try to get the best male possible to indeed stay and provide and protect.
Please, I'm not a chauvinist, I think women can do whatever the heck they want. I'm just saying the
social origins of equating virginity with moral purity actually rest on both genders, it wasn't
simply men imposing an expectation on women. When it started, whenever it started, it was mutual.
It was part of the survival contract. |
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I Do NOT Believe "Controlling Breeding" Entered Into the Equation at All. MALE JEALOUSY Has Had
More to Do With It than Anything Else. Men Wanted Their Property to be PURE and Untouched by Any
Other Man. Since Men Controlled the Religions, Virginity And Moral Purity Were the Law of the Land. |
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I don't think I would characterize it that simply. It seems there is much more to a woman's
sexuality than men controlling their breeding capability. In fact, I would say the "women's
movement" reflects more of a male control of a woman's mating mores. Studies have shown how a woman
with multiple sex partners has a more limited capacity for sexual fulfillment when she does desire
just one life-long mate. A woman's physiological and chemical change to sexual intercourse is much
different in one who has had a more promiscuous history. So, perhaps women are designed to be
monogamous in the long run than to have "hook-ups." Women are not men when it comes to the
bedroom---something that is also quite obvious. Men have really seduced the gentler sex into
thinking they should behave as men do in this area. |
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11 Nov 2009 00:39
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