I thought that most of the religious right did think that adult men should refrain from having sex, except within marriage (and that the point of marriage was to make a bunch of babies). The abstinence-only education in schools is for teenage boys too, right? I guess I thought it was really more an anti-sex point of view than a simply misogynistic one.
They *say* that, and probably even mean it, but the consequences of sex outside of marriage have always been greater for women than for men. (Unless, perhaps, the men were having sex with a woman married to another man.) There's a certain respect men who have lots of sex get. Women who have sex with lots of men are a different story.
I'd say that the abstinence-only thing has its origins in a misogynistic world view that can't be supported given their belief about basic equality of the two sexes. Given this clash between two sets of beliefs, they seek a way of expressing their misogyny that doesn't sound misogynistic to them. So, they say anti-sex stuff, because then they can say it's no more anti-woman than it is anti-man.
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Date: 2009-12-04 04:07 am (UTC)They *say* that, and probably even mean it, but the consequences of sex outside of marriage have always been greater for women than for men. (Unless, perhaps, the men were having sex with a woman married to another man.) There's a certain respect men who have lots of sex get. Women who have sex with lots of men are a different story.
I'd say that the abstinence-only thing has its origins in a misogynistic world view that can't be supported given their belief about basic equality of the two sexes. Given this clash between two sets of beliefs, they seek a way of expressing their misogyny that doesn't sound misogynistic to them. So, they say anti-sex stuff, because then they can say it's no more anti-woman than it is anti-man.