re: one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire

very few prostitutes are in the business because they are sex addicts, or even have a higher than average desire for sex.

Most actually come to dislike the sex act (it becomes work.)

but discussing the psychology of sex might not be a topic to persue.

in western society, christianity (especially RC church) has made sex, (the physical act)and sexual desires into taboos.

there is very little of this in Judism, which values morality, and marriage (so adultry is a prohibbited) but premartial, consentual sex? it not encouraged, but there is a old joke about the top 15 biblical ways to get a wife, (starts with give up a rib), and one way it, sleep with the maiden you love, get her with child, tell her father what you have done... it makes light of biblical stories, but it does have an elemant of truth. so long as a man is willing to be responsible, and the woman was of age, and willing, there is not really a problem.

meanwhile, in christianity, st ursula, and her friend XI mille (or was it 1100 friends?) all became "virgin martyrs". there might have been some virginity cults in Roman or Greek culture, but christianity made it big time. and islamic culture copied it. (so suiside bombers are all getting rewarded with 72 virgins.)

2000 years of this anti sex culture has left our language rich with name for 'sexual sinners' and since it's never very evident that men have engaged in sex, (but it often is if women have), women much more than men have been sexually sterotyped in a negitive way. a thread filled with all the negitive term that have been used to hurt woman is not really the best place to head... IMHO.


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