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In reply to the discussion: Can't a woman enjoy her sexuality without being called a whore? [View all]caseymoz
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we can suppress STD's. Another thing is, compared to other disease vectors, like water, food, air, mosquitos, there aren't that many STD's, and aside from AIDS, most are not that bad. (I mean, strep or e. coli can kill you in 36 hours or less.) We take care of water and food born diseases (or had until recently) with inspections and public health programs. We don't make anything like the effort with sex because people want diseases to discourage promiscuity.
Therefore, by your paradigm, we neglect suppressing the diseases to discourage women from becoming sluts and whores, and we scorn the sluts and whores because they spread the diseases. There is something basically immoral about that, whether feel obligation or not.
This is insane, and I could make a strong argument it's not in your self-interest even if you and your partner are monogamous. I abbreviate it by saying having fewer options and less freedom is never better.
If this were anything but sex, people could be rational. But because it's sex, everybody acts like idiots.