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Re:Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny by bettercallsalad on Friday August 04, 2023 @07:23AM (#36998393)
My advice to myself and many of my friends have exactly based on that type of reasoning. Avoid women in Western Hemisphere like plague (and perhaps if you are a woman the other way around is also true). There are many parts in the world where monogamy is not only a tradition, it’s a requirement. Only in the Western Hemisphere, monogamy is looked down upon with “lack of experience”.
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Re:Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny by hef19898 on Friday August 04, 2023 @08:00AM (#36998746)
Ah, so women socialized in a way that requires them to stay and serve their "man". Got it.
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Re:Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny by bettercallsalad on Friday August 04, 2023 @08:27AM (#36999018)
Not sure what part of my original comment implies that. In fact, I explicitly said it applied to both genders.

In many parts of the world (China, Thailand, Vietnam etc just to name a few), chastity, monogamy etc are considered desired attribute in a partner. Only in Western Hemisphere (influenced by American Pie type of subculture) you see monogamy and chastity equalized with “lack of experience” or even “loser” characterization. The campus frat party culture obviously make it necessary to tie every kid of age 18-23 how “desired” they are with how many partners they had sex with.

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Re:Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny by ricardobeat on Friday August 04, 2023 @10:24AM (#37000518)
> chastity, monogamy etc are considered desired attribute in a partner

You mean “female partner”.

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Re:Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny by bettercallsalad on Friday August 04, 2023 @11:07AM (#37001032)
Not sure how you drew the conclusion. In western culture, a guy being chaste/virgin is considered a serious sin. Remember “40 year old virgin”?
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Re:Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny by hef19898 on Friday August 04, 2023 @11:08AM (#37001061)
Not a sin, just odd.
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Re:Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny by ricardobeat on Friday August 04, 2023 @06:51PM (#37006906)
You didn’t mention any specific cultures, but those “attributes” are only required for women, and breaking the rules makes them unfit for marriage. Meanwhile, men can be as promiscuous as they want. This applies particularly to the middle east and majority muslim countries, but also true in softer form in south america (where I grew up) and probably asia.

I loathe the frat-boy culture, but it feels odd to celebrate alternatives that are even more oppressing for women.

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Re:Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny by tempest_ on Friday August 04, 2023 @10:21AM (#37000471)
A huge chunk of the responses in this post are bananas.

No wonder women struggle in tech if this is even slightly representative.

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Re:Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny by AlexandrB on Friday August 04, 2023 @08:18AM (#36998934)
> Only in the Western Hemisphere, monogamy is looked down upon with “lack of experience”.

Should avoid men in the Western Hemisphere too then.

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Re:Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny by bettercallsalad on Friday August 04, 2023 @08:27AM (#36999026)
I actually said that in my comment if you read it, it applied to both genders.
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