Casual sexual relief is structurally unavailable to women as it is to men

Evidence

The man can easily engage in casual sex that at least calms his physical needs and is good for his morale. There have been women—a small number—who have demanded the opening of bordellos for women; in a novel titled Le numéro 17 (Number 17), a woman proposed creating houses where women could go and find “sexual relief” with a sort of “taxi-boy.” It seems that such an establishment once existed in San Francisco; it was frequented only by the girls from the bordellos, amused by the idea of paying instead of being paid: their pimps had them closed. Besides the fact that this solution is utopian and undesirable, it would also probably have little success: we have seen that woman does not attain “relief” as mechanically as man; most women would hardly consider this solution favorable to sexual abandon. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1925

Categorization

• QUESTION: The San Francisco bordello-for-women anecdote is unverified and oddly specific; worth checking whether Beauvoir invented or sourced it.
• XREF: connects to: Physical asymmetry makes casual sex dramatically riskier for women than men — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1925; Enjoyment of sex acts does not imply willingness to do them casually — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2360; Men impose contradictory demands on women’s sexuality that no conduct can satisfy — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1142

Broader Connections

• Enjoyment of sex acts does not imply willingness to do them casually #expands (0.85) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2360
• Men impose contradictory demands on women’s sexuality that no conduct can satisfy #corroborates (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1142