Can a woman survive without a man or sex in her life?

[hennalyn]

This question may be sensitive and simple. We know that most men can't go long with women and sex, how about for women? Can we really live without them for the rest of our lives?

I'm not sure I understand. Loads of men and women spend most/all of their lives single and celibate.

Um, nobody ever died from not having sex. This idea that men "need" sex is part of rape culture and is not a need, simply a sense of entitlement due to our society telling men that women's bodies are there for their use and enjoyment.

Any person, no matter what their gender, is quite capable of being single and celibate, even if they don't necessarily like it.

Why do you ask?

Of course she can. Can't really be compared to real necessaties, food, shelter, money etc.
With enough money, a rewarding career, good friends, hobbies etc a woman can do more than just survive. She can live happily.

Anyone can, man or woman, nobody needs a partner or sex, some people choose to like to have those things but neither are a necessity for either sex

Can we have some evidence to back up your somewhat widesweeping claims?
Or would you be happier with assertions that our sexual organs shrivel and send toxins into our bodies causing brain damage and organ failure if we don't have regular sex?

Yes, a woman can survive without a man and / or sex in her life - she can thrive! Men can, too. Why do you ask?

Erm, yes. So can men, actually.

I don't even understand the question. Millions of people live like this and it's not actually a life threatening condition.

There are millennia of monks and nuns who did just that. So, yes. Both ends of the gender spectrum do just fine without the other. They just don't reproduce.

Isn't separatist feminism at least partly founded on the fact women can live without men.

You don't have to be a monk or a nun!

No, you don't, but the existence of same is a solid body of evidence that absenting oneself from the opposite sex and sexual activity isn't fatal.

I for one could definitely do without sex.

Of course. Agree with OneUP

Yes OP. I conclude that it seems not to affect ones vital signs in any way

Yes.

I think that is a secret fear of men, that one day they will find out that they aren't, in fact, the centre of the universe, that we can get on perfectly well without them without missing them one little bit.

The fear of irrelevance.

Surely a woman is more likely to survive without a man in her life than with one, considering the numbers of women murdered by their partners of ex-partners.

Another feminist who believes that women are at the centre of men's universe. Actually men could do just as well without women as vice versa - it's that we actually appreciate the life, variety and alternative insight that the other gender provides.

Unlike some.

Yes of course! The notion that I woman "needs a man in her life" is rather depressing and very 1950's. Should we all start pitying the "single spinsters left on the shelf" in the style of Jane Austen?

Sex is only vital for reproduction, not survival.

Gay women also manage very well without a "man in their lives" don't they?

I'm not sure if your question is actually the one you meant to ask?

I don't need a man, and I don't need sex, but I do need an orgasm.

Batteries ftw.

a woman NOT I woman! Grr.

How do we know that men can't go long without women and sex?

Where is the evidence?

HermioneWeasley

The Shakers would be one example.

I could live without a man, struggle without an orgasm, but could not live without love. I just need to love something! (looking adoringly at Guinea pig lol)