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Why does so much revolve around sex, male gratification and the penis?

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GodDammitAmy · 31/07/2019 00:34

Tonight I've watched I Am Kirsty, where a struggling female is coerced into sex with her neighbour to pay back a loan. Now Ellie Uncovered is reporting on rent for sex. I'm so bloody sick to death of so much revolving about male gratification to the detriment of women and their safety.

But it's made me wonder - why does so much revolve around sex? I could go into a proper rant now with lots of "and another thing" but I'm not going to, I'm just going to leave it here and ask why are we here? How did we get here?

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Fallingirl · 31/07/2019 04:04

I find it utterly bizarre, that the half of the world’s population that is held to be thinking about sex pretty much half the time, is also generally accepted as so incompetent that they can’t even wank without assistance.

It is just assumed that using porn and/or prostituted women is necessary for men to get off.

It is actually breath-taking, that people who are not expected to be able to masturbate alone, are also seen as the natural leaders of the world.

DancelikeEmmaGoldman · 31/07/2019 03:19

Studies show the average man thinks about sex much more on a daily basis than the average woman.

I’m a rational world then, the poor dears, so constantly distracted by the things they see, (chair legs, pwooar legs! Advertisements! Chalk drawings! Actual woman!), which make them think of sex, surely shouldn’t be rulers and captains of industry.

The fact that men run the world, despite their short concentration span, is proof that the patriarchy is a long con, driven purely by physical advantage and not, as we keep being told, by superior intelligence, reasoning, strategy or, god forbid, honour and morality.

Goosefoot · 31/07/2019 03:17

There are a few basic human drives that underly life. Mainly food and water, sex, and then death is another universal. Everything else is, in a sense, built on top of those things.

Doyoumind · 31/07/2019 02:03

Patriarchy.

IdaBWells · 31/07/2019 01:38

Men's brains are wired differently. Apparently the part of their brain involved in sight is directly linked to the part of brain focused on sex. Studies show the average man thinks about sex much more on a daily basis than the average woman. So a male dominated world will be one prioritizing sex.

AnotherAdultHumanFemale · 31/07/2019 01:33

I was thinking the same thing recently. Many of the problems in society are to do with men's constant, seemingly unquenchable thirst for endless, new sexual experiences with a never ending supply of women and girls. Not content with what must be a lifetime's supply of porn on the internet, nor prostitutes, cam girls and strippers, they have now taken to putting cameras in our toilets, and now staggeringly they are insisting that they too are women, simply because they say so, to get access to our previously safe female-only spaces.

I don't know if men have always been like this or whether society, porn and the internet have encouraged it, or a combination of both.

But I don't understand it. I wish they would just leave women alone.