Its an interesting pattern that the people who are most inclined to claim women are uninterested in sex are the same groups as those who most restrict womens sexual choices and punish those deviating from the norm.
If it were true that women had lower sex drives there would be no need for repressive cultures to have mechanisms to limit them, any more than they have mechanisms to limit flying.
However, if ones goal, for whatever reason is to restrict female sexual choice then propagating a belief that sexual desire among women is abnormal is instrumentally useful for that goal.
I’m not sure whether this is true. From what I’ve heard, cultures that go in for female genital mutilation do it to lower women’s sex drives, and I’m not sure what underlying beliefs the Taliban has about women’s sex drives.
The Saudi restriction on women driving is at least partly based on a desire to make infidelity more difficult.
Its an interesting pattern that the people who are most inclined to claim women are uninterested in sex are the same groups as those who most restrict womens sexual choices and punish those deviating from the norm.
If it were true that women had lower sex drives there would be no need for repressive cultures to have mechanisms to limit them, any more than they have mechanisms to limit flying.
However, if ones goal, for whatever reason is to restrict female sexual choice then propagating a belief that sexual desire among women is abnormal is instrumentally useful for that goal.
I’m not sure whether this is true. From what I’ve heard, cultures that go in for female genital mutilation do it to lower women’s sex drives, and I’m not sure what underlying beliefs the Taliban has about women’s sex drives.
The Saudi restriction on women driving is at least partly based on a desire to make infidelity more difficult.