It perpetuates and maintains the notion that women are pure, chaste, and are not casually interested in sex. It's a relic of the past. It is conjectured that back then, because a man cannot know for certain whether the child that a woman bears is his, society has created a culture where women must represent themselves as uninterested in casual sex in order to attract a commited man to support a family. In this manner, a man that succeeds in winning a girl will believe that she will tend to be faithful to him since she will not be casually interested in other men. He has to believe that the barrier for other men to have sex with her is very high, if not impossible. This will allow him to be more certain in the belief that a child that she bears is indeed his and will be willing to stick around to support both her and the child. A woman that makes it know that she is promiscuous and think nothing of casual sex will not tend to find committed man interested in staying with her and raise a family.
These days, DNA testing can verify paternity, and women don't necessarily need a man to support them or her child. So really the conditions are all different. However, relics of the past live on.
Or so I've read.
2007-03-08 07:28:31
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