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- From: muffy@mica.berkeley.EDU (Muffy Barkocy)
- Subject: Re: Fucking and making love (was: ... models of heterosex)
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- Date: 31 Dec 92 19:22:36 GMT
- References: <various> <1g56s8INNeuj@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <1g56s8INNeuj@agate.berkeley.edu> mvwjf@mvgpf.att.com (William J Fallon) writes:
- >In article <1g3c6pINN62q@agate.berkeley.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:
- >>This triggered no small dose of irony when I read it. There are
- >>quite a few women for whom feminism, in part, meant that they
- >>could like to fuck. Not make love: that is what good women were
- >>allowed to do with a particular beloved man from the start of the
- >>west. But to fuck: with friends and acquaintances, for the
- >>eroticism and the high and the fun and the art and the kink and
- >>the sweat of it. And they could do this without being sluts
- >>because feminism meant, in part, breaking the double standard
- >>that reserved this activity to men and degraded women.
-
- >Ah, you've been reading Cosmo again.
-
- Well, I'm afraid I've never read Cosmo. Nonetheless, I also find it sad
- that so many feminists have decided that women's sex lives should still
- be regulated by someone - they just want it to be feminists (well, their
- kind of feminist, anyway) rather than men. Fortunately, it's not that
- bleak...I know lots of the "old style" feminists, who are simply in
- favor of women having free choice as to what to do with their bodies and
- who to do it with...*smile*.
-
- >Nobody I know who wasn't already
- >a slut before feminism came along felt it OK to become one after
- >feminism came along.
-
- Not to speak for Russell, but *I* thought the point was that they
- *weren't* "sluts," which is a rather negative word, they became simply
- people who enjoyed sex.
-
- >What feminism DID do for a lot of women I know
- >is make them feel better about enjoying the physical part of the
- >relationships they would have had anyway, feminism or not.
-
- "Would have had anyway?" When they were owned first by their fathers or
- brothers and then by their husbands? When proof of adultery was one of
- the few grounds for divorce, and most women were dependent on a man for
- survival? When they had little or no reason to expect to enjoy sex?
- I'm sure there were people who had physical relationships and enjoyed
- them, but I do think this situation has improved quite a lot because of
- many of the effects of feminism.
-
- Muffy
- --
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- Muffy Barkocy | ~Can you tell me how much bleeding/it
- muffy@mica.berkeley.edu | takes to fill a word with meaning and/
- "amorous inclinations"? Aha! I'm | how much how much death it takes/to give
- not "not straight," I'm *inclined*.| a slogan breath?~ - Bruce Cockburn
-
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