Proverbs show sex-as-sport framing pervades even rural same-class relations

Evidence

Sexuality as reproductive function and as sport: The “aesthetic” ideal of woman oscillates between the conceptions of “brood mare” and of “dolly”. But it is not only in the cities that sexuality has become a “sport”. The popular proverbs, “man is a hunter, woman a temptress”, “the man who has no choice goes to bed with his wife”, etc., show how widespread the conception of sex as sport is even in the countryside and in sexual relations between members of the same class. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1097

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the frame of sexuality as ‘sport’ versus ‘reproduction,’ showing it crosses class and rural-urban lines.