Buddha1 said:
Where are all those feminists? How come Sciforums don't have them? I'd love to discuss things with them, and see them challenge me!
I'm maybe jumping in a bit late to this discussion, and I have not read the entire thread. To answer the OQ, I define a whore as someone with an agenda who fucks to get what he/she wants. It is someone who does not honour his/her body, but uses it for gainful purposes (not necessarily just monetary gain). It is someone who uses sex as a vehicle by which she/he acheives a less-than-admirable/honourable goal, and does so at the expense of his/her own mental, emotional, spiritual and/or physical health and complete disregard for that of others.
Now...Buddha... I admit that I have not read all of your posts - even in this thread - and I likely won't hang around for a really lengthy debate, so let's keep it short.
I am a little confused about your stand on things. It probably would help to know: are you a person of the male persuasion? Or to rephrase, do you consider yourself to be a man, a woman or neither? For some reason, you seem really touchy about the whole subject of heterosexuality, homosexuality and the stigmas and agendas of either camp. I am a woman, I'm probably about 95% heterosexual, and I'm not a feminist. I'm just a "humanist". When I say heterosexual, I mean that I prefer to have sex with men rather than women. It doesn't define me. It merely labels my preference. I wonder, does my heterosexuality somehow seem threatening to you? Does it mean that I wish to exert some sort of control over you or any other man? If it seems so to you, then it is merely your imagination telling you this. It sure as hell isn't me! Am I married? Yes, very happily. Is my husband happy? Most certainly. He must be, because he is still with me after 12 years. "Big freakin' hairy deal!" you say? I suppose it wouldn't be if we had a "standard" marriage, where both parties sign a contract that locks each to the other until they die, no ifs, ands or buts. But we don't. He is free to leave me any time he pleases if he sees a life out there waiting for him that will treat him better than I can.
What if that life is with another man, you ask? Well then...so be it. It is his life, and not mine. I only want for his happiness. I have no agenda. There is no secret plot for hetero women to take over the world. I just happen to prefer men over women (and I've tried both). This, by definition, makes me a heterosexual woman. Until you brought it up, it never ocurred to me that the terms hetero- or homosexual carried with it any negative connotations. I just thought they were the terms we used to describe a person's sexual persuasion. There are lots of other derogatory names we could use.
Okay, maybe not quite so many derogatory names for heteros, but that's because you're right that heterosexuality has definitely been the social default relationship for a very long time. But hey! Don't beat up the heteros just because our preference has been favoured over the years by those who DO have agendas...
Maybe I'm waaaay off base here, but I guess I'm just unclear as to what it is, exactly, that you are so afraid of?