Keeping it Casual (sex)
Excerpted, with minor changes, from The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve, by Steve Stewart-Williams (2018. Cambridge University Press).
https://quillette.com/2018/10/14/keeping-it-casual/
In comments:
The only cultures that positively encouraged male sexual promiscuity (not to say rapacity in some cases) were the libertine subcultures that flourished briefly during the Restoration and mid- to late eighteenth century in England, and during the period of sexual liberation in the 1960s and 70s that followed the availability of the pill (as Steve points out, and as Hera Cook demonstrates in her book, The Long Sexual Revolution). All these periods were followed by strong puritanical backlashes, notably in the Victorian era and the present day.
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The Manipulated Man by Esther Villar,
“Vilar writes, “Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves. As compensation for their labours men are given periodic use of a woman’s vagina.” The book contends that young boys are encouraged to associate their masculinity with their ability to be sexually intimate with a woman, and that a woman can control a man by socially empowering herself to be the gate-keeper to his sense of masculinity. Vilar states that this has been going on for some time. “