Most nonvirgin women have feigned sexual refusal

Evidence

Women are not wrong at all when they reject the rules of life that have been introduced into the world, inasmuch as it is the men who have made these without them. There is naturally strife and wrangling between them and us … we treat them inconsiderately in the following way. We have discovered … that they are incomparably more capable and ardent than we in the acts of love … we have gone and given women continence as their particular share, and upon utmost and extreme penalties … We, on the contrary, want them to be healthy, vigorous, plump, well-nourished, and chaste at the same time: that is to say, both hot and cold. For marriage, which we say has the function of keeping them from burning, brings them but little cooling off, according to our ways. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1142 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Most non-virgin college women reported coerced or forced intercourse at least once — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2449; Nearly half of college women had nonconsensual intercourse at least once; Men impose contradictory demands on women’s sexuality that no conduct can satisfy — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1142

Broader Connections

• Men impose contradictory demands on women’s sexuality that no conduct can satisfy #complicates (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1142