Which is surprising.

From feminist scholar Carole Pateman's 1988 book

The Sexual Contract

:

"Patriarchal control of women is found in at least three paradigmatic contemporary contracts: the marriage contract, the prostitution contract, and the contract for surrogate motherhood. Each of these contracts is concerned with men's control of women, or a particular man’s control of a particular woman generalized. According to the terms of the marriage contract, in most states in the U.S., a husband is accorded the right to sexual access, prohibiting the legal category of marital rape. Prostitution is a case in point of Pateman’s claim that modern patriarchy requires equal access by men to women, in particular sexual access, access to their bodies. And surrogate motherhood can be understood as more of the same, although in terms of access to women’s reproductive capacities. All these examples demonstrate that contract is the means by which women are dominated and controlled.

Is it that a woman’s sexuality should be elevated to something mystical, is it really that when a woman sells her vagina she sells her “soul”?

I don’t know why on one hand we say - a woman is more than her body, and that we shouldn’t be judged by which genetalia we have, and on the other hand we say - a woman selling her body sells her very self.

If a person thinks that women are selling their very souls when they sell sex, they are really saying that a woman’s sense of self is no deeper than her vaginal canal.

The Hypothesis Is That:

There is a component of the Biological Contract in reproduction that we are not aware of - And it has been screwing us all for years.

The Terms of the Biological Contract are:

Woman will allow Man to plant his seed on the condition that he make a contribution to her survival, and therefore the survival of their potential offspring.

How Has It Screwed Us?:

Our society believes that the contribution can only be in the form of a committed relationship.

The Truth May Be That:

As long as there is a contribution to the survival of the potential mother the Biological contract has been fulfilled. The contribution can be time, effort, money, inclusion in community…. the possibilities of what the contribution can be are varied and personal to the individual, but generally align into 2 categories - Emotional and/or Financial (Tangible)

More Thoughts:

Prostitution, when legal, and when both parts of the agreed upon terms are met, is the purest example of the biological contract being fulfilled. It is the only relationship where the male-female balance of power is 100% equal. Prostitution’s illegality keeps the power overwhelmingly balanced in favor of males, obviously in the prostitute-customer relationship, but also in society as a whole by denying women the right to use the most direct route of Biological Contract fulfillment.

Those girls are putting out "I'm available for love" messages, they're not putting out "I'm available for sex" messages. Any chick can get sex, but getting anything more than that is a different matter.

"Both sexes are caught in the tug-of-war of acting the part of the sexually liberated within a culture that isn't sexually liberated."

What culture IS sexually liberated? Anyone have an example? Maybe we should find one and copy it.

I hate to interrupt the oh-so-groovy-homo-erotic-manly-man-circle-jerk ya'll got going here (in the ladies room of all places!~ kinky!) but....

I'm so sick of all this feminist v. feminist crap - seems manufactured in a way... what is the term? pop-feminism?

It's kind of like talking about religion in terms of monotheism or polytheism and never bothering to look further, at any of the many differing beliefs that fall under either of those broad categories.

Please feminist bloggers - stop debating the virtues of one wave vs another wave and start debating the merits of feminism's subsets. Here's a few to get ya started:

Cultural Feminism

Eco-Feminism

Existential Feminism

Libertarian Feminism

Liberal Feminism

Marxist Feminism

Socialist Feminism

Moderate Feminism

Radical Feminism

Separatist Feminism

bonus easy-read chart!:

http://www.feministissues.com/chart.pdf

And really, if you want to see a good feminism-fight, ask about prostitution and whether or not it is empowering for women.

Maybe it's my user name, which I use other places as well, but I get that line, and lines like it fairly often. "I'm glad you're not my wife" and "I feel sorry for your husband" are the most popular two.

I never understand the point of those comments.

Do any of the limp-dicked fuck-nots who say that stuff actually think it's an insult? OF COURSE they are glad I'm not their wife, they are confronted with their own weaknesses and pointlessness when dealing with someone smarter than they are, male or female.

If I was your wife you'd learn when to shut your mouth.

Fucking democrats.

Don't we try this every time? We extend olive branches, and the republicans take them and wipe shit all over them and then throw them back at us, aiming for our eyes.

Fucking take the power while you have it and wield it like a sword. Don't negotiate with those terrorists.

It exposes Republicans as obstructionist, at which Dems can shrug their shoulders, say they tried, and pass their agenda.

That's when the republicans start fishing for tales about ill-gotten blow-jobs and shit like that. Sitting back and saying "look at what jerks they are" hasn't ever worked with jerks. I wish it did.

Hasn't this been around forever? I'm pretty sure I remember some shit like this getting passed around when I was third grade.

Going to go see this. I haven't been to the movies in 12 years, but I'm actually going to go see this one.