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Courtney's avatar

I have a serious observation/question regarding young women's supposed interest in increasingly brutal sexual encounters. Terms like "porn brain" are used and I have heard several talks in which men attempt to psychoanalyze women or uncover some sort of evolutionary reason for this, etc.

Why do none of them men who participate in these conversations ever bring up the effects of girls (many times beginning at the onset of puberty and early teen years) being put on birth control and other sorts of anti-anxiety and depression meds. Their developing brains and hormones get cooked in this chemical soup. And if grown women notice problems with these medications affecting their libidos and abilities to climax, how much worse is it for very young women whose brains and hormones never had the ability to develop normally. To me, it follows that girls who have grown up this way don't feel much arousal or ability to intensely experience anything sexual unless something is so intense it manages to break through the drug haze. I think it is another reason girls and young women are capable of doing incredibly intimate things in only a hook-up setting. They literally don't feel normal emotional or physical reactions to the situation or the acts.

It has always been right to criticize the medication of boys to force them into a feminized form of social conformity. We see the after effects and correctly identify that the problems are social expectations and medications. We don't keep reaching for a mishmash of social and evolutionary theories to make it seem like we are uncovering new insights about male behavior. Why can we not see the same thing in these young women?

It is deeply abnormal for the maternal sex to NEED a form of sexual abuse in order to feel sexual satisfaction from her partner. It is abnormal to not understand the difference between making passionate love and being ravished from being abused and tortured. Women's bodies make and feed their babies. It is normal for women to feel very self-protective of themselves because of this, and to want a man who makes them feel safe and protected BEFORE the passion and fire. When we see this normal behavior being completely erased, why do we not look for the culprit? Why are so many men so eager to ignore what should be obvious and just talk at length about all this pseudo-scientific theories about how women evolved, etc.

To me, it seems to show a lack of concern for girls and young women that is unfair. Especially when one considers how many women try to stick up for little boys and point out how many things in our contemporary society wreck their developing masculinity. Girls' developing feminity is also being destroyed and brutalized. It would be helpful if more young men would stop trying to capitalize on it but instead criticize the things that cause it.

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Is it common for men who date in the sugar-daddy scene to expect to meet mature, stable women who don’t play games and who essentially react to intimate encounters the same as men?

Possibly the only women who aren’t traumatized by casual encounters are sociopaths, who are numb and cynical enough to see it all as a purely transactional activity. And a sociopathic woman is going to bring a lot of drama and grief into the situation because she’s a sociopath.

Walt, if you’re reading this, please understand that you will never find a satisfactory relationship in the sugar-daddy space. There’s nothing about that structure to attract functional women. There’s nothing about that structure to promote healthy relationships.

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