I am a slut.

[RainDog]

10. Why Do We Live in a World That's Petrified of Women Who Love Sex?

via alternet

http://www.alternet.org/sex/154373/why_do_we_live_in_a_world_that%27s_petrified_of_women_who_love_sex/?page=entire

One of the earliest known postclassical joke books is the 15th-century Facetiae of Poggio, in which we find the following anecdote, presented in the painfully stiff English translation:

A woman who was once asked by a man, why, if the pleasure of cohabitation was equal for both sexes, it was generally the men who pursued and importuned the women rather than vice-versa, replied:

“It is a very wise custom that compels the men to take the initiative. For it is certain that we women are always ready for sex; not so you men, however. And we should therefore be soliciting the men in vain, if they happened to be not in the proper condition for it.”

...women’s libidos went from being considered as powerful or more so than men’s to being essentially erased. Pre-Renaissance examples of horny ladies abound, from the Greeks onward: make your own list, but do include Chaucer. He’s such fun. This change in attitudes appears to have been religiously motivated, and based on the idea that women are more spiritual and sacred than men, meaning “less horny.” Again, make your own list of contemporary leftovers of this attitude: there are plenty.

The writer notes that the same joke is now told, but the genders are reversed. The "less desiring of sex" stereotype, therefore, made female desire "abnormal."

The belief that "normal" women do not like sex and view hetero male sexual desire toward them as unwanted creates a rape culture mentality - i.e. women must be taken by force. If they are not, they are abnormal.