Why Women Have Sex?
This article downright pissed me off today.
“People just assumed the answer was obvious,” Meston says. “To feel good. Nobody has really talked about how women can use sex for all sorts of resources.” She rattles off a list and as she says it, I realise I knew it all along: “promotion, money, drugs, bartering, for revenge, to get back at a partner who has cheated on them. To make themselves feel good. To make their partners feel bad.” Women, she says, “can use sex at every stage of the relationship, from luring a man into the relationship, to try and keep a man so he is fulfilled and doesn’t stray. Duty. Using sex to get rid of him or to make him jealous.”
Women also mate to get the things they think they want – drugs, handbags, jobs, drugs. “The degree to which economics plays out in sexual motivations,” Buss says, “surprised me. Not just prostitution. Sex economics plays out even in regular relationships. Women have sex so that the guy would mow the lawn or take out the garbage. You exchange sex for dinner.” He quotes some students from the University of Michigan. It is an affluent university, but 9% of students said they had “initiated an attempt to trade sex for some tangible benefit”.
The entire point of this article is to show that women don’t have sex solely for romantic intimacy with the ones they love, but instead they USE sex for devious purposes. I don’t know about you, but I found this pretty goddamn offensive. Why do men USE sex? Most people will tell you they have sex so they get sexual satisfaction. Why can’t women just use it for satisfaction as well?
If I want the trash taken out, I’ll take the damn trash out. I don’t need to coerce my partner to do it by having sex.
Believe it or not, women as a whole are not these malicious beings using their body parts for nefarious ways. This article (and the book associated with it) is a piece of trash.
