Letters to the Editor
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Jello -- there are other explanations for the idea that there are few sleazy women, many sleazy men
You say that I am sexist because I contend that there are few women like LW, while men think more women are like that because many men are like that.
You say that's impossible because every time a man has sex, a woman has sex. So, the average numbers of sex acts by each gender has to be the same. Unless "single working women" are having lots of sex with married men, according to you. So, anyone who thinks that men are sleazier than women, usually, has to have something against "single working women."
Well, two points:
Yes, the average numbers of sex acts must be the same. But the disparity of reported numbers has long been posited as due to the likely situation that a few women -- prostitutes and whores -- have extreme quantities of sex, while most women do not. That makes the total averages the same, while the typical man, a group which includes johns, still has more sex than the typical women, a group which does not include professional callgirls, prostitutes and whores. And women like the LW.
One look at the escort pages should let you know that this scenario is plausible. All women for men and men for men. You can't hardly FIND a male prostitute for women, a gigolo -- very very rare.
The next point is that men WANT more sex than they GET. What is stopping men from getting all the sex they would want is that women say no.
Just look at "typical" gay behavior before AIDS for some idea of what sex would be like if men had their way.
Anyway, call me sexist if you like, but I think the facts are somewhat inconvenient for those who would posit that LW is at all representative of women in general or that sleazy behavior must, perforce, be equally distributed between the sexes.
Jan VanDenBerg