Promiscuity - does this exist anymore?

Sounds more like cake and eat it to me than promiscuous.

Lol ...you may be right suziewoozie

Also interesting that there were tarts and sluts and molls and it was always the females who were referred to as such, not the males. Probably still is. Often wondered who they were tarts and sluts with, perfect examples of manhood or what?

Promiscuity exists and therefor the word is still valid. What is wrong is that it is thought of as an insult if you are female and a complement if you are male. It is this sexist thinking that needs to be got rid of not the word.
It should not be seen as an insult jut a choice that anyone is free to make.

It’s a case of how others see you I’ve always been carefull to be seen as a “nice” girl/woman, others I’ve known have been seen as “tarts” have had a hard time, treated as easy prey by men and shunned by other women. I’ve always been very conservative how I present myself, in public, getting on well with women and not attracting the “wrong” men.

Being seen as promiscuous is not good, even worse if you dont care what others think.

Sadly there will always be double standards on this subject.
If you randomly asked people what they remember Edwina Currie for and it will be her affair with John Major.
It's all different for Johnson of course!

Does it matter how others see you? Be true to yourself. You don't have to look a particular way to enjoy sex with different people. I dressed and appeared very conservative throughout my Jezebel period. Sex only became shameful when the prudish (hypocritical) Victorians decided it was.

I don't think I would want to be friends with the sort of woman who shuns somebody else because of their sexual behaviour.

Actually what I remember most about Edwina Currie is the egg scandal. (Closely followed by her affair with John Major)

Of course promiscuity exists, it's people's attitudes which sadden me. I object to married people having affairs, not because it's promiscuous but because it's damaging, unless ,of course, it's in an open marriage. Are people really bothered or indeed interested in how many sexual partners someone has had? Do people really make a distinction between men and women and straight and gay people? eg Women who have lots of partners are tarts and men are Hero's!! Really, do people actually think that? Are people actually interested in other people's sex lives? I honestly thought we'd moved on a bit. Clearly not.

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Sadly there will always be double standards on this subject.
If you randomly asked people what they remember Edwina Currie for and it will be her affair with John Major.
It's all different for Johnson of course!

Really, I remember her for eggs! In my world both parties who have an affair whilst married or whilst single with someone who is married, are equally culpable. Currie and Major and Johnson and Acuri are all equally responsible for their behaviour but IMO this is nothing to do with promiscuity.