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== Comic Books == |
== Comic Books == |
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* A male character in ''[[Shade the Changing Man]]'' claims if he doesn't have lots of sex his jaw will go out of whack. |
* A male character in ''[[Shade the Changing Man]]'' claims if he doesn't have lots of sex his jaw will go out of whack. |
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* [[League of Extraordinary Gentlemen|Orlando]], after spending several months of his adolescence on a ship with a gang of [[Anything That Moves|horny Bronze Age sailors]], discovered, once they made landfall in the jungle, that he has turned back into a female. His, uh, her immediate response was to [ |
* [[League of Extraordinary Gentlemen|Orlando]], after spending several months of his adolescence on a ship with a gang of [[Anything That Moves|horny Bronze Age sailors]], discovered, once they made landfall in the jungle, that he has turned back into a female. His, uh, her immediate response was to [[wikipedia:Pheidippides|make like Pheidippides]], though she does mention that, had she run into such a woman back when she was a he, she probably would have raped herself, too. |
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** Of course, that stereotype is somewhat modern. Used to be, people thought it was ''women'' who couldn't go for long without sex. See the play ''[[Lysistrata (Theatre)|Lysistrata]]'' by [[Aristophanes]], in which the women collectively go on a sex strike until their husbands agree to stop warring with each other: Before the first night is out, it's the girls who are trying to "engage enemy forces," and only the strong-willed leaders manage to stop them from ruining the entire operation. |
** Of course, that stereotype is somewhat modern. Used to be, people thought it was ''women'' who couldn't go for long without sex. See the play ''[[Lysistrata (Theatre)|Lysistrata]]'' by [[Aristophanes]], in which the women collectively go on a sex strike until their husbands agree to stop warring with each other: Before the first night is out, it's the girls who are trying to "engage enemy forces," and only the strong-willed leaders manage to stop them from ruining the entire operation. |
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*** Indeed, back in ancient Greece, medical knowledge stated that [the womb had to be regularly moistened or it would dry up and attack the other organs. |
*** Indeed, back in ancient Greece, medical knowledge stated that [the womb had to be regularly moistened or it would dry up and attack the other organs. |
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**** Fun fact: this "attack on the other organs" was known as ''[ |
**** Fun fact: this "attack on the other organs" was known as ''[[wikipedia:Female hysteria|hysteria]]''. If marriage or "[[A Date With Rosie Palms|massage]]" didn't help, a ''hyster''ectomy would. |
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*** If you like to know when people stop thinking this? It's the late 1800's |
*** If you like to know when people stop thinking this? It's the late 1800's |
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*** The shift occurred very, very gradually, and not uniformly, depending on region and intellectual strata. From being consequences from protevolutionary theories in the early 1800s in the young intellectual elite to being entrenched as the mainstream gender roles in the mid 20th century, that's a 150 year span. For example Sigmund Freud: His Ur-Horde-theory is generally viewed as the prototype for the evolutionary psychological reasoning of the newer 'men are lecherous, women are virtuous' stereotype. However Freud himself was raised conservatively in the 1850ies and unlike many of his intellectual contemporaries in the 1920ies, believed women to be just as lecherous as men. Female circumcision in the US became popular in the late 1870ies as a cure for the bane of masturbation, and was only deemed completely unnecessary for women as late as the 1920 to 1940s (women wouldn't have sexual desires anyways). It took as long as the 1950ies when Kinsey challenged the by now deeply ingrained gender stereotypes with his empirical findings that, well, women * are* just as lecherous as men. |
*** The shift occurred very, very gradually, and not uniformly, depending on region and intellectual strata. From being consequences from protevolutionary theories in the early 1800s in the young intellectual elite to being entrenched as the mainstream gender roles in the mid 20th century, that's a 150 year span. For example Sigmund Freud: His Ur-Horde-theory is generally viewed as the prototype for the evolutionary psychological reasoning of the newer 'men are lecherous, women are virtuous' stereotype. However Freud himself was raised conservatively in the 1850ies and unlike many of his intellectual contemporaries in the 1920ies, believed women to be just as lecherous as men. Female circumcision in the US became popular in the late 1870ies as a cure for the bane of masturbation, and was only deemed completely unnecessary for women as late as the 1920 to 1940s (women wouldn't have sexual desires anyways). It took as long as the 1950ies when Kinsey challenged the by now deeply ingrained gender stereotypes with his empirical findings that, well, women * are* just as lecherous as men. |
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