Female sexual availability and passivity are structural features ordinary anatomy and force enforce

Evidence

It is he—as for most animals—who has the aggressive role and she who submits to his embrace. Ordinarily, she can be taken at any time by man, while he can take her only when he is in the state of erection; feminine refusal can be overcome except in the case of a rejection as profound as vaginismus, sealing woman more securely than the hymen; still vaginismus leaves the male means to relieve himself on a body that his muscular force permits him to reduce to his mercy. Since she is object, her inertia does not profoundly alter her natural role: to the extent that many men are not interested in whether the woman who shares their bed wants coitus or only submits to it. One can even go to bed with a dead woman. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 946

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The radical claim that a man can go to bed with a dead woman — because coitus requires only male consent — exposes the asymmetry of sexual embodiment with a starkness that lingers.
• FICTION: The line ‘one can even go to bed with a dead woman’ is a chilling premise-starter for speculative or gothic fiction about the asymmetry of desire and consent.
• XREF: connects to: Virginity destruction makes the female body an irrevocably passive object — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 343; Flesh prized in women is that which appears passive, purposeless, and inert — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 351; The passive feminine woman is a social construction imposed on girls — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 691 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Female sexual receptivity is an active vital expenditure, not mere inertia #contradicts (0.85)
• Female passivity is socially imposed, not biologically determined, and self-reinforces through a vicious circle #contradicts (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 691
• Biology refutes both the female-passivity bias and the male-effervescence bias at the gamete level #contradicts (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 85
• Female homosexuality is a reconciliation of autonomy with bodily passivity #qualifies (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1035
• Women’s exclusion from authority stems from learned passivity, not innate inferiority #expands (0.72) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 673