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6455591 No.6455591[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

What are some arguments for/against promiscuity?

All of my life I thought that girls/guys with many sexual partners were doing something bad, but I've thinking about it and I realized that I don't really get why that is a bad thing. Cheating is wrong, sure, but not being engaged and literally fucking around because you feel like it doesn't really seems like a bad thing outside of my rather unrealistic "muh purity" standards.

Most people use the usual hedonism/yolo stuff to justify themselves, and the people against it have morals/religion and some other things, but I was wondering if there were literary works focused on attacking, justifying or even reinforcing promiscuity,

>> No.6455598

I read two books at once

>> No.6455604

>>6455591
http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/AnscombeChastity.php

And there's another argument of something along the lines of "In order for rape and pedophilia to be significant, sex must be significant, therefore hedonistic promiscuity is unethical." I forgot who made it, though.

>> No.6455605

>>6455598
That's cool.

>> No.6455623

>>6455604
Oh yeah, it's David Benatar. Check out his "Two Views of Sexual Ethics"

>> No.6455627 [DELETED] 

Yeah, theres tons of it. It's called degenerate nigger made rap music, and it's convinced you pretty well that there's nothing wrong with being a dirty filthy slut.

>> No.6455630

>>6455627
>>>/pol/

>> No.6455633

>>6455623
You mean David the antinatalist guy?
Oh boy, who would've thought he'd be interested in this sorta thing.

>>6455627
I want to think that too, but I'm really starting to not see what's so bad about it, despite my dislike for that lifestyle.

>> No.6455653

There is nothing good about it.

>> No.6455656

>>6455591
Aldous Huxley's book Island makes a good case, but don't read the whole thing, just skim for the parts about polygamy

>> No.6455661

>>6455623
And The Second Sexism

>> No.6455668

>>6455656
>don't read the whole thing
This is not only bad advice, it's also the wrong book by Huxley. Genius and the Goddess, or his SBC lectures

>> No.6455675

>>6455653
I don't like it (like I said earlier), but I can see the "good" in it.

>> No.6455676

Promiscuity is, if anything, quite reckless

>> No.6455678

>>6455598
you whore

>> No.6455684

Men are geared from the get-go for pussy variety (though not all men will fulfill their directive and not all are geared in fifth) and therefore have the cortical capacity to easily tolerate the comings and goings of numerous lovers without having a breakdown or fretting constantly about how well new lovers match up to old lovers.

This is why a man with a promiscuous past is not necessarily a bad bet as a marriage prospect, and also explains — along with the fact of maternity assurance — why women don’t care as much about men’s sexual histories as men care about women’s sexual histories.
Sluts are damaged goods.

>> No.6455686

the obvious point of departure is questioning under what evolutionary circumstances evolutionary mechanisms for jealousy would arise and infidelity is clearly a trigger. ie its "bad" because weve evolved mechanisms to shun promiscuous behaviour as it decreases parental certainty

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6455690

>>6455591
does having sex with multiple partners interest you?

if so, do it. it's that simple

>> No.6455692

>>6455678
Nobody pays me to,I just dgaf

>> No.6455694

>>6455591
Keys and locks

>> No.6455698

>>6455694
The other day I saw that argument get rekt in this very board, I don't remember how it went though.

>> No.6455706

>>6455698
It's not very strong but I like it for some reason

>> No.6455713

>>6455694
>tfw dad was a master key

I still don't forgive him for leaving my mom to struggle by herself

>> No.6455721

>>6455591

It's part of a general program of having standards. If you treat sex as something important, powerfull, precious, etc, then you believe that it should be shared with only the best of people who who can really make the act great. If sex is just a hesonistic past time then it does'nt matter who you do it with. Those with intense and interesting sexualities need very particular conditions for it to manifest, people with boring sexualities don't need anything special, a whole or a phallic shaped object will do if it is warm enough.

It also has bad psychological effects of desensitization to sexual activity in, lack of being able to develop real relationships, ect. Every time you have sex with a new person your brain chemistry changes and you become less able to maintain a committed relationship since you are training your body for short term reproductive strategies. This happens even more in women than in men. This is part of why women who have had 20+ sexual partners can almost never maintain a marriage, their promiscuity has fucked them up emotionally to the point were they are dysfunctional.