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Why women's sexuality is seen as threat by society/cultures/religion.

Is there any mating and evolutionary reason behind it in humans?
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You're right. It's historically been framed as a moral threat and is more criticized upon females than males because the world runs on power dynamics.

You decide what is morally wrong or right for you. No one else.
Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M
Humans can typically only hold one child at a time and it takes nine months to do so, the cost is quite high for indiscriminate sex practices. Men's role in this dynamic is that of the expendable partner, we're not the resource sink when it comes to who is more important. That's why we historically protected our women and coddled them. A population with many females is good but a population with few females is bad. And this is why there are more women than men but the numbers are still close, we needed more women than men but we also need enough men to defend those women from other men who would plunder them. It's also why monogamy has become the dominant partnering idea. Men worked out that to keep them from constantly warring with each other it would only be allowed that they should take one wife. It was agreed upon then that every man could have any woman he could win over, but only one woman. And this satisfied the most men.

There's this idea that women are the only ones being controlled but that's not the case. They are controlled more is all
justbob · 61-69, M
The thing is a woman can have a child with somebody else and tell her man its his even if it isn't. And he will raise it as his own. A man can not bring home a baby and claim it's hers .. so their kind of is an evolutionary reason I think
sahi81 · 26-30, F
@justbob where i live, men can remarry and raise his kids with his step mom. but women are not allowed to remarry as per cultural beliefs which are slowly changing now a days. I heard cases where step mom emotionally abuses kids or kills them secretly .
Maybe it's viewed as a "power." Some people are intimidated by that.
BohoBabe · M
Probably because women can use sexuality to have power over men. There was also a big increase in the fear of female sexuality during the feminist movement, which makes sense. If women have sexuality and civil rights, there's no stopping them!
Perry1968 · M
@sahi81 Oh. Im sorry if that culture does this.
sahi81 · 26-30, F
@Perry1968 divorce is seen as bad for both men and women and shameful where i live. But raped , widowed, abandoned by husbands, etc women are not allowed to remarry but if same happens to men they can remarry as per cultural beliefs.
Perry1968 · M
@sahi81 Wow. Thats crazy. We cut ourselves and we all bleed. Thats my belief. No one should have a upper hand.
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Bowenw · 61-69, M
It is not a threat to me. It's their bodies to do whatever they wish.
sahi81 · 26-30, F
@Bowenw yes , some men see it as a threat and some don't. i think it's more of a cultural issue where i live.
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