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Why does prude, frigid and virgin shaming still happen?

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yeahthisisit · 01/09/2023 19:00

And why isin’t there a movement or a reclaiming of those words?

And why does this kind of bullying and shaming even happen in the first place?

I’ve seen and heard women and girls being called horrible names and shamed if they don’t want, like, aren’t interested or haven’t had sex, but there’s no outrage for it, why?

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SpamIAm · 01/09/2023 19:05

Because men still want to have sex with any women they choose.

sadaboutmycat · 01/09/2023 20:00

I agree with @SpamIAm as to the underlying reason, but have not heard anything like this other than anecdotally. Could you tell me where it's rife please? Is it in schools? Colleges? Workplaces? Pubs? Thanks.

Princessconsuelabananahammock9 · 01/09/2023 22:43

I haven't heard any of that but I agree about the reasoning.
I think women are still slut shamed more than anything.

yeahthisisit · 02/09/2023 05:54

I really don’t want to make this about ’slut shaming’ because there already has been a huge movement regards to that, but I don’t really think they are the same thing.

One, like I said, huge movement on that topic, it has been reclaimed, barely anyone do it anymore, onlu time I hear or see slut being used is when a woman proudly announce they are one (also, c’mon, men love these women). And also even if it did happen on a rare occassion, okey woman had sex she wanted and is called a thing, but if a woman hasn’t or doesn’t want it - she is pressured and shamed and bullied to have sex, I find it much more sinister and abusive.
And there is no movement to help or support.

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CurlewKate · 02/09/2023 06:21

Because one of the many ways women have always been categorised and criticised is for wanting too much or too little sex.

RosaGallica · 04/09/2023 09:55

It was typically used just after you’d said “no” to a man when I was young. Men just can’t cope with the idea that their dicks are not the only things in women’s lives.

PurpleBugz · 07/09/2023 23:47

I think there is no movement to stop this because it doesn't benefit men. Sluts are what men want fair enough stop shaming them. But stop coercing women into sex/sex acts they are uncomfortable with? Jog on

KayaToastConnoisseur · 08/09/2023 17:26

Unfortunately, "prudish", "frigid", and "puritanical" are now used by many young men and women (sadly it's mostly women saying this to me) to describe any woman who do not believe prostitution and "sex work" is empowering.

SuePine69 · 10/09/2023 18:06

KayaToastConnoisseur · 08/09/2023 17:26

Unfortunately, "prudish", "frigid", and "puritanical" are now used by many young men and women (sadly it's mostly women saying this to me) to describe any woman who do not believe prostitution and "sex work" is empowering.

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I don't believe that every woman who opposes prostitution is a prude. I don't think that Jess Phillips MP for example is one. However, many of the people she associates with in her campaign against prostitution are I would argue prudish.

There are Evangelical Christians such as Gavin Shuker (former MP) who campaigned against prostitution. Fiona Bruce MP is another one. They would be more credible if they opposed exploitation in every type of work. They're not interested in that though. They believe that all forms of prostitution are exploitative.

They are entitled to their opinion. I don't like the way though that they are too ready to believe false statistics when trying to change the law. Phillips, Shuker and Bruce were all part of the APPG on Commercial Sexual Exploitation.

Then you have Radical and Revolutionary Feminists like Finn Mackay. They encourage women to give up sex with men. Women can either be lesbians or celibate. She accepts the arguments of Sheila Jeffreys, as does Julie Bindel.

Catharine A MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin believed that women are always objectified if they have sex with men even if they are married. They co-operated with right-wing Christian Evangelicals to try to change the law. It's as if they can't believe that a woman could choose to have sex with several different men each day as their preferred method of making money.

Feminists such as Laura Lederer cause a lot of problems around the world by enabling Evangelical Christian organisations such as IJM to act in ways that harm women.

yeahthisisit · 10/09/2023 19:07

PurpleBugz · 07/09/2023 23:47

I think there is no movement to stop this because it doesn't benefit men. Sluts are what men want fair enough stop shaming them. But stop coercing women into sex/sex acts they are uncomfortable with? Jog on

This is and has been my thinking for a long time now.

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