slut-shaming and prude-shaming(?) - Edited

Happy Tuesday everyone,

Edit warning: The poems I added at the end are a bit graphic.

Why do we slut shame? Why do we (I'm creating a new term) prude shame? Girls are called sluts when it is decided they have too much sex; slut shaming. But they're also called prudes when it's decided they don't have enough sex, so I'm calling this phenomenon prude shaming.

But where is that line being between a slut and a prude? Being shamed for having too much sex and being shamed for not having enough? And is there something in between? Is there a way to come out unscathed?

Nope.

There isn't a formula or scale for determining who is a prude and who is a slut. Someone who has never had sex can be called a slut because of how they dress or behave or simply because someone decided they were.

This post is inspired by the quote, "'The best kind of slut is one who won't put out.'" (Another Day by David Levithan) These words are said by the main character's ex-boyfriend after she tells him she did not have sex with the boy he saw her hugging. He calls her a slut even though she did not have sex with the other character. THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!

Slut shaming and prude-shaming are ridiculous and imaginary concepts created by society. And does it really matter how much sex a person has? As long as it's consensual who is anyone to judge how much or how little sex a person has? The amount of sex a person has doesn't make a person good or bad.

I vote we cancel shaming anyone for the amount of sex they have. Just a thought.

Totally Ky

Edit: I found two poems from planting garden in graves: volume one by r.h. Sin that encompasses what I'm talking about

shaming.
men beg
for entry
then label woman whores
as they exit

men chase pussy
then degrade women
for giving it to them

Either way.
they make virgins feel embarrassed
for not having sex

they shame woman for making the decision
to share themselves