ext_50177 ([identity profile] fpb.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] fpb 2005-09-26 10:57 pm (UTC)

Re: For women, this means being rebelliously ignorant of the value of chastity and modesty,

Up to a point. This is a place where I really do think that there is a basic difference between the sexes. Modesty in a woman is an instinctive act of defence - apart from the psychic violation which I think is actually more important, there is the matter of her always being the loser as compared to the man, in the sexual exchange. She receives, he takes. I am not preaching coyness, which is infuriating, but coyness is something like a nasty caricature of the way that modesty is a specifically female defence. It means keeping one's self to one's own self. The gambling attitude to sex is of course bad for men as well as women, but, I think, in different ways: it inspires selfishness and lack of sympathy in men, and it tends to demolish the real self-respect of women. This is a very shortened view of what I would have to say properly on this subject, of course.

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