Cosmic Keys To My Creation & Time
WAKE UP!
Femme. Cold Ghost, Australia.
All our lives we sweat and save. Building for a shallow grave.
WAKE UP!
Femme. Cold Ghost, Australia.
All our lives we sweat and save. Building for a shallow grave.
Quite simply, slut means an individual (although the word most commonly refers to females) who frequently engages in sexual activity with a lot of partners.
When describing a male who frequently engages in sexual activity with a lot of partners, the words often used are stud, player, horndog, and so on - and sometimes a male slut. However male slut is a label that men usually wear with pride; it is a term of approval and envy. A male who frequently has sex with a lot of partners is patted on the back, looked up to with admiration because he is merely carrying out a role that is assigned to him as a man. It is seen as a progressive step toward the development of masculinity. It is celebrated and encouraged. It is the equivalent of childish misbehavior and being naughty.
With females however, the disapproval is taken to the realm of stigmatization.
A female’s pursuit of sexual pleasure and sexual adventure is still seen as a negative characteristic, somehow making her a bad human being. A female is not defined in terms of her humanity, but in terms of her sex life.
So, logically, does enjoying sex with different partners make someone a bad person? How can an individual’s sex life define them wholly as a human being? Surely human beings should be measured by their human qualities and characteristics: kind-hearted, funny, lazy, expressive, determined, shy, mean, boring, bossy, happy-go-lucky and so on.
Sex, even though it’s just a small segment of our existence, is still such a beautiful, sensual experience, and exploring one’s sexuality and diversity should be respected and celebrated.
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Some will say that the word slut can never be independent from social and historical meanings attached to it (just like “nigger” and “queer”) and will always be bound and steeped in the negative sense of the word, and thus there should be a new word to describe a sexually active and experimental individual to detach it completely from its previous meaning.
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Love your body, love your sexuality, and realise that you are a bad human being only if you are unkind and cruel and do harm unto others - and not because of your sex life.
- Roxana Shirazi
Introduction to the book I bought today; “The Last Living Slut”
First book I’ve ever read both introductions and prologue and highly recommended after 27 pages.
