This is the second in the series on the “greenpill” theory, this post summarizes the theory and the evidence for it.
Definition
Everything is about sex, except sex: sex is about power.
– Robert Greene
The greenpill concept is that traditionally women exchange sex for resources, and that women have influenced society to ‘rig’ this market in favor of women, by closing off other alternatives to men than marriage, enabling marriage to be biased against men.
The sexual market is distorted through laws, sexual taboos and shaming. The sex cartel is exploitative of men the same way a cartel is exploitative of consumers.
Ideologies such as Feminism exist as a defender of the cartel and serve the selfish sexual and financial interests of aging and/or unattractive women.
The greenpill, the sex cartel, or the ‘great sex scam’ makes us rethink everything we think we know about men, women, sex, and power.
Was in shootouts with the law, but he live in a palace
Bought me Alexander McQueen, he was keeping me stylish
Now that’s real, real, real
– Nicki Minaj
In the west since at least the “age of chivalry” (approximately the 12th century onwards) the fundamental basis of gender relations was men exchanging sex for resources. This was enforced by making sure sex and companionship was only available to men within marriage, and then rigging the marriage contract to force men to transfer resources to women.
It is in the interests of more desirable women (mostly younger) to have a free sexual market.
While this system is breaking down, the fundamentals of it still remain and are the source of modern gender roles.
This is an artificial situation which is enforced by society (and mostly by women) through laws, social shaming and customs.
Sex is effectively controlled by a ‘cartel’ which acts to control men through access to sex, enforced by aging and unattractive women, restricting competition from younger women. The sex scam weaponizes the female sexual jealousy of older more socially powerful women.
This situation is disadvantageous to men, since sex is equally desirable to both sexes (in fact, arguably more to women). So in order to protect the ‘sex cartel’, society distorts natural behavour; traditional societies do the following:
Ban sex with unmarried women
This was done by shaming women who have sex in non-approved ways (namely outside marriage) as ‘easy’, ‘sluts’ etc. This is the motivation for ‘slut shaming’. Slut shaming is overwhelmingly done by other women.
Sex outside marriage is also restricted by punishing men who enjoy it (e.g. Modern Indian & Edwardian Era ‘rape’ laws)
Taboo all outlets for male sexuality except sex within marriage, for example:
male homosexuality (but not female)
prostitution (again, not prostitution where women are the clients)
masturbation (again, male only)
All the above have the effect of artificially raising the price of sex to men, and lowering it to women.
Women who have sex in non-approved ways are called ‘cheap’ – quite literally describing the problem from the cartel’s point of view. This is exactly the insult a shopkeeper would use to another who undercut them.
In addition, the following beliefs are common in traditional societies
Portray sex that is consensual but non-approved as abuse of women
Downplay the amount women desire sex
Exaggerate the amount men desire sex
These attitudes promulgated about sex (for example seeing it as abuse of women by men) act to change the perception of sex to something women do ‘for’ men, or men do ‘to’ women. This normalizes the double standards, so that men can be punished for sex outside marriage, and so we condone rigging marriage against men (to ‘compensate’ women for the indignity of sex with men)
In this way the sex market is similar to a cartel – more powerful women enforce the price against other women in the same way cartel members punish any that break ranks.
This is why it is also called the ‘sexual trade union’, the ‘pussy protection racket’, or less politely the ‘c*ntspiracy’.
However this also complements women’s sexual jealousy, with the sex scam mostly being enforced by older married women who are jealous of younger more attractive women who might steal their husbands.
The ‘green pill’ describes the theory, with green being color of jealousy.
The rest of this series will give the evidence for the existence of the sex scam and examples of it in action, show how it emerged from previous societies, and how to destroy it.
In the battle of the sexes, men are not an adversary – men are the battleground
– anon
The argument is this:
traditionally women financially benefited from marriage or other long term relationships (LTRs) with men
men enter into those relationships partly for sex
women individually suppress alternatives to sex in marriage/LTRs (via slut shaming)
women collectively suppress sexual competition to marriage/LTRs, often via laws
this suppression is driven by less attractive or older women who otherwise could not find partners, or who could lose partners to other women…
… and resisted by other women, who would benefit from a free market
Each of these points is proven below, apart from the first one – which is in part 3 Marriage as economic slavery
Women compete for men to get men’s resources
If your pussy was so good, you would drive a better car.
– Katt Williams
There is strong evidence that women select partners based on their socioeconomic status, while this makes little or no difference to men
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Women are aggressive against others they see as sexual competition, especially if they are seen as ‘easy’
Fuck the skinny bitches! Fuck the skinny bitches in the club!
I wanna see all the big fat ass bitches in the muthafuckin’ club
Fuck you if you skinny bitches, what?! Kyuh
Haha, haha
I got a big fat ass (ass, ass, ass)
Come on!
– Nicki Minaj
Many people will know from personal experience how ‘bitchy’ women can be against rivals for men’s affection. This boss of an all female company explains how women typically fought over any men present:
Soon, arguments became a daily occurrence. It would start with snide comments between two people then, as others joined in, emotion and anger would grow until an eruption – shouting, screaming, swearing – which always left someone in tears.
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The effect a lack of testosterone was having in our office was even more apparent when I temporarily hired two male directors to work on a series (camera operators are usually men because of the heavy equipment). The team suddenly became quieter, more hard-working and less bitchy – partly because they were too busy flirting.
When we had meetings with men, staff turned ferocious, each out to prove that they were the sexiest in the room. With a male commissioner at Channel 4, one employee said ‘Watch this!’, then stuck her hand down her bra and tweaked her nipples. The man and I were speechless.
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I believe the business was ruined by the destructive jealousy and in-fighting of an all female staff. Their selfishness and insecurities led to my company’s demise. When I needed the so-called ‘Sisterhood’, believe me, it just wasn’t there.
This impression is backed up by the research.
A study published in the journal Aggressive Behavior confirms that most women aggress against sexual rivals
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In this study women were secretly videotaped talking about another woman, who was either dressed in a sexy outfit, or conservatively.
The subjects were introduced to another woman either dressed provocatively or conservatively
When she was in a sexy outfit:
The women in this situation were more likely to roll their eyes at their peer, stare her up and down and show anger while she was in the room. When she left the room, many of them laughed at her, ridiculed her appearance, and/or suggested that she was sexually available. By contrast, when the same attractive peer was dressed conservatively, the group of women assigned to this second scenario barely noticed her, and none of them discussed her when she left the room.
A second experiment showed that the sexy colleague was seen as a sexual rival by women:
Results indicated that women did not want to introduce her to their boyfriend, allow him to spend time alone with her, or be friends with her:
Collectively, these results provide support for the idea that women do engage in intrasexual competition by aggressing towards sexy female counterparts.
women are more likely to insult or humiliate other women (be “bitchy”) if they are dressed in a provocative way
we found that almost all women were rated as reacting negatively (“bitchy”) to an attractive female confederate when she was dressed in a sexually provocative manner. In contrast, when she was dressed conservatively, the same confederate was barely noticed by the participants. In Study 2, an experimental design was used to assess whether the sexy female confederate from Study 1 was viewed as a sexual rival by women. Results indicated that as hypothesized, women did not want to introduce her to their boyfriend, allow him to spend time alone with her, or be friends with her.
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Further studies show women deprecate or insult rival women behind their backs to make them seem less attractive to men.
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The most common insult used by women against other women is accusations of being sexually easy, with the second most common one that they are unattractive
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The majority of violence between adolescent girls happened where one had been accused of being too sexually available
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52% of incidents of violence between adult women happen after one has accused the other of sex with her partner
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Women suppress female sexuality, not men
Who run the world? Girls!
Who run the world? Girls!
Who run the world? Girls!
Who run the world? Girls!
– Beyonce Knowles
Given that women are aggressive and derogatory to other women who are sexually available, it makes sense that the widespread phenomenon of social shaming of promiscuous women (‘slut shaming’) is a collective version of the same thing. This is exactly what the research shows – slut shaming is almost entirely done by women.
Most women believe that other women are more likely to condemn promiscuous women than men
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This perception is correct – 59% of female college students describe a woman who has had many sexual partners derogatively; as a “slut,” “cheap,” “loose,” “whore,” “easy,” or “dirty”
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Women are more likely to judge other women with many partners negatively than men
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Slut shaming works, in surveys women downplay their number of previous sexual partners, suggesting they feel shamed
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Older women, married women and feminists are more likely to be against sexual freedom
“Traditional” right-wing religious women are EXACTLY the same as the left-wing feminists are. They just use different mumbo-jumbo to achieve the same ends. For example, both ‘radical’ & ‘traditional’ women oppose any kind of sexual competition e.g. Prostitution, pornography, etc. Feminists blabber about ‘patriarchy, equality…’ while right wing fems quote bible verses. Same b.s. different packaging.
– anonymous comment on YouTube
More women than men think prostitution, pornography, and adultery are wrong than men. Three times as many women think looking at pornography is wrong than men. Older women are more likely to think they are wrong than young women
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Wealthier women are more likely to call themselves feminists
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Women are much more hostile towards premarital and extramarital sex, and more likely to regard the sexual revolution as a change for the worse
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Older women are more likely to oppose sex outside marriage than young women, and married women more likely than unmarried.
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Unattractive and older women suppress other women’s freedom to dress to attract men
One link to sexual availability is women’s clothing. Women wearing more revealing clothing suggest they are more available. To preserve the sex cartel then, older and less attractive women should suppress the ability of more attractive women to attract men by dressing sexily.
Older Women collectively have consistently tried to suppress women’s freedom to wear revealing clothes.
Groups that claim to represent women, including feminists, are particularly hostile to other women dressing sexily.
Enforcement of wearing the hijab in Islamic countries like Iran is done by “morality police” who are mostly older women who volunteer to spot and arrest younger women seen as wearing too much make-up or revealing clothing.
Women support the wearing of the chador (which covers the whole body apart from the face) more than men
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in moderate Islamic countries more women than men support wearing more conservative clothingA rally in Tehran in favor of arresting improperly veiled women. Note the sex ratio
an undercover woman volunteer for the Iranian morality police warns a woman about her clothing
Feminists in USA supported social purity laws, which were used to prosecute women wearing bathing suits that were judged too revealing.
Chicago policewoman checking a woman’s bathing-suit length 1921April 1922 Chicago, Illinois – Two bathers being escorted off the beach by a policewoman for violating the modesty law
supporters of the hijab explicitly state:
the Hijab contributes to the stability and preservation of marriage and family by eliminating the chances of extramarital affairs.
Muslim scholars themselves recognize the parallels between Islamic dress codes and feminist ones, the article “Muslim feminists reclaim the hijab to fight the patriarchy” states some feminists openly support the wearing of the Hijab, claiming it stops “sexualizing women’s bodies”:
women reject the sexualisation of female bodies by covering them. They gain a sense of self-respect without adhering to capitalist norms of beauty. They promote a new version of feminism.
feminist activist “Princess Hijab” paints hijabs and niqabs over women in adverts to “protest the sexualization of women”
The Feminist Naomi Wolfe wrote about the chador (my emphasis):
It is not that Islam suppresses sexuality, but that it embodies a strongly developed sense of its appropriate channelling – toward marriage, the bonds that sustain family life, and the attachment that secures a home.
Both Muslim and Orthodox Jewish women not only describe a sense of being liberated by their modest clothing and covered hair, … when one’s husband isn’t seeing his wife (or other women) half-naked all day long – one can feel great power and intensity when the headscarf or the chador comes off in the home. … it is easy to imagine the power that sexuality can carry in a more modest culture.
The more power men have, the more society approves of female sexuality
Her negligees are Burberry
Her lingerie game very straight
Her oral sex is very wet
My sex so great she gainin’ weight
I cook a cake, she cook a steak
We three estates, you Section 8
Stay out her face, she hardly date
She fuckin’ Gucci, shawty, damn!
Everyday’s a ballin’ day
Just yesterday we bought a lake
Tomorrow bought us 2 Camaros ’08 and a ’68
We trappin’ fast with stupid cash
So rap on with your stupid as
It’s Gucci Mane, no stupid ass
I keep on making stupid cash
– Nicki Minaj (slumber party)
The demand for Votes for Women means a revolt against wrongs of many kinds—against social injustice and political mismanagement as they affect both men and women. But more than all it is a revolt against the evil system under which women are regarded as sub-human and as the sex-slaves of men.
– Christabel Pankhurst
The sex scam theory predicts that the more power women have relative to men, the more female sexual display, including clothing, will be repressed.
A powerful piece of evidence for this is that skirt length varies in line with the sex ratio – the fewer men there are relative to women, and so the more women compete for men, and the shorter the skirts
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. The same is true for necklines, the fewer men – the lower the neck lines
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the 1920s was a time of historic lows in the sex ratio due to WWI, and also a sexually permissive time when women wore higher skirts …compared to the 1910s when the sex ratio meant that women had to compete less
Shorter skirts are also correlated with higher divorce rates, suggesting when men have more options they are more likely to divorce and find another woman.
You would expect greater economic benefits to marrying a man result in increased competition, and this is also shown – the higher the stock market (suggesting wealthier potential husbands), the shorter the skirts
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when the stock market is higher, and men have more income, skirts (as shown in fashion magazines) get higher
Votes for Women, Chastity for Men!
Women’s groups from the suffragettes on have consistently campaigned to criminalize prostitution.
Why is the woman of the streets, who spends her sex earnings upon her lover, scorned universally? Is it not because both are unconsciously violating the code, or the trade “understandings,” in giving not only of themselves, but their substance as well? These women are selling below the market, or scabbing on the job.
– Christabel Pankhurst in “Plain Facts about a Great Evil”
Militant suffragette Helen Ogston horsewhipping men stewards at a public meeting in 1908. There is no record of Miss Ogston suffering any legal punishment as a result
Modern heterosexual prostitution is almost entirely female sellers and male buyers, researchers report: We do not yet have a single instance of a woman reporting that she had purchased sex from a man
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If sex is a “trade union” enforced by less attractive women, then prostitutes are the equivalent of ‘scabs’ who break the cartel, and you would expect women collectively to be against it. As an example of this, let’s consider the Suffragettes. Note 1.
In western cities from 1830-1930 between 5% and 15% of women aged 15-20 had engaged in prostitution
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, and at this time prostitution was de facto legal in the UK, under the Contagious Diseases Acts (1864).
Suffragettes were true to the feminist motto “the personal is political” and sought to suppress prostitution; in fact this was a major goal of the Suffragette campaign, with many prominent suffragettes stating the reason they supported female suffrage was because it would result in criminalizing prostitution.
They campaigned against a program to check prostitutes for sexually transmitted diseases and confine them in hospitals until cured, and got the practice abolished in 1886
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. The abolition of these checks resulted in cases of Gonorrhea more than doubling
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The Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 – an anti-prostitution law was supported and promoted by the WSPU (the Suffragettes):
Speakers [at suffragette meetings] drew attention to the male bias in legislation and the need for women to have the vote in order to bring an end to the traffic in women [prostitution]
speaker after speaker harked back to the need for the woman’s vote in trying to cure this canker [prostitution] in our social system. The men who are engaged in fighting the evil are a small minority; only the women, who feel the whole question with a passionate intensity, can supply the necessary voting power which would force the government to take action.
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The feminist historian Margaret Jackson reports:
Ever since the raising of the age of consent in 1885 from 13 to 16, feminists within the ‘social purity’ organizations had been continuing to campaign to close loopholes in the Act of 1885, and for further measures to prevent the sexual abuse and exploitation of women. One such measure which feminists had long demanded was that soliciting by men should be made illegal. In 1907 … a White Slave Traffic Bill had been drafted, which included a clause on male soliciting.
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Suffragettes in their own words, saw the vote for women as a means to control prostitution:
The [anti-prostitution] Bill if passed, will do something. But Votes for Women will do more; for only when women have come into their own, only when they have the same power to protect themselves as men have, will it be impossible any longer for the souls and the bodies of women to be made a lucrative branch of modern commerce.
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– WSPU speaker
the Suffragettes also saw the debate over criminalization of prostitution as a fundamental conflict between men’s and women’s interest, in their own words:
Reading the discussion upon the Bill, the conclusion is irresistible that the existence of vice of a certain kind is accepted by the representatives of men as part of the necessary order of things,
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Support for this legislation was largely from feminist organizations, and after the passing of the Bill, prominent feminists including Millicent Fawcett, Emily Davies, Alison Neilans and Maude Royden started a campaign to raise the age of consent to 18. The campaign was supported by most suffrage societies
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Flora Drummond, a WSPU official, stated the three highest priorities of the suffragette movement as:
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1 The sweating of women workers.
The starvation of women is undermining the health of the mothers of the race, and is driving thousands to a life of shame.
2 The White Slave Traffic.
Even under the new Bill which is now being carried a man can get less punishment for trapping an innocent girl and forcing her to a life of shame than for stealing a loaf of bread.
3 The outrages committed upon little girls, some of them only babies.
This is a growing evil, which working-class mothers are determined to stamp out, and to do this they must have the vote.
Poster by US suffragettes suggesting that female suffrage will end women having to work menial jobs, as well as prostitution
Christabel Pankhurst – a director and founder of the WSPU (Suffragettes) – wrote a series of articles in the Suffragette journal The Vote calling for prostitution to be criminalized, later published in a book entitled “Plain Facts about a Great Evil / The Great Scourge and How to End it”
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Suffragette with board advertising the anti-prostitution book “The Great Scourge and How to End it”
In this book Pankhurst coined the slogan “Votes for women, Chastity for men!” to call for men to abstain from sex outside marriage.
This anti-suffragette postcard portrays suffragettes as being against single menAnti-Suffrage postcard noting that Suffragism was a movement for unmarried women
The suffragette’s campaign to criminalize prostitution conflated consensual prostitution with slavery:
It is notorious that an enormous percentage of white slaves are forced into slavery by economic pressure, by the impossibility of earning more than a starvation wage, or by the impossibility of earning anything at all
Pankhurst explicitly drew the connection between prostitution and marriage
People are led to reason thus: a woman who is a wife is one who has made a permanent sex-bargain for her maintenance; the woman who is not married may therefore make a temporary bargain of the same kind. [my emphasis]
She saw the issue of prostitution as one of direct conflict between men’s and women’s interests:
Chastity for men—or, in other words, their observance of the same moral standard as is observed by women—is therefore indispensable.
Votes for Women will strike at the Great Scourge in many ways. When they are citizens women will feel a greater respect for themselves, and will be more respected by men. They will have the power to secure the enactment of laws for their protection, and to strengthen their economic position.
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One of the chief objects of the book is to enlighten women as to the true reason why there is opposition to giving them the vote. That reason is sexual vice. The opponents of Votes for Women know that women, when they are politically free, and economically strong, will not be purchasable for the base uses of vice.
Those who want to have women as slaves, obviously do not want women to become voters.
All the high-sounding arguments against giving votes to women are a sham—a mere attempt to cover up the real argument against this! reform, which argument, we repeat, is sexual vice.
Contents page of ‘Under the Surface’, a book calling for criminalization of prostitution by suffragette Louisa Martindale.
The historian Susan Kingsley Kent states that:
the “sex war” formed the crux of the suffrage campaign and provides one of the keys to comprehending the true nature of the women’s movement; masculinity, especially as manifested in sexual behaviour, constituted for feminists a selfish, destructive, uncontrolled, brutalising force. Suffragism was closely intertwined between 1860 and 1914 with the campaigns for family law reform and women doctors, and with the crusade against state-regulated prostitution.
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The modern feminist Margaret Jackson also sees the issue of prostitution as a conflict between men and women. Writing about the suffragette campaign:
Reports of the debates on the passage of the [anti-prostitution] Bill in Parliament demonstrated the fundamental conflict of interest between women and men on the issue.
[prostitution] is central to male power and therefore central to women’s emancipation. … by making the links between women’s economic position, the exploitation of their sexuality, and their subordination as a sex, they highlighted, rather than obscured, the economic basis of prostitution. Underpinning the campaigns and the slogans was an analysis of the sexual economics of male power in which heterosexual relations were seen as a power relations.
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Feminists from the suffragettes on have consistently campaigned to raise the age of consent.
My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
– Kelis
Pussy really is the ultimate motivator of all mankind. No, don’t clap, this is a flaw in the system!
– Doug Stanhope
Women’s sexual attractiveness peaks before age 18
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removing these women from the dating pool reduces the competition for older women.
Women’s sexual desirability peaks before age 18
According to the law historian Lawrence Friedman, around the beginning of the twentieth century most American states raised the age of consent to 16 or 18. As Friedman explains, “This meant that, when two teenagers had sex, the male was by definition a rapist, the female by definition a victim — even if they both were completely willing or even eager to do the deed”
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In 1907 in the UK, prominent feminists including Millicent Fawcett, Emily Davies, Alison Neilans and Maude Royden started the “Criminal Law Amendment Committee” – a campaign to raise the age of consent to 18. The campaign was supported by most suffrage societies
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Christabel Pankhurst called for the age of consent to be raised to 21 in “Plain facts about a great evil”, a book distributed by the Suffragettes
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As feminist historian Linda Gordon commented:
The closer we look, the harder it is to distinguish social-purity groups from feminist ones. Feminists from very disparate groups were advocates of most major social purity issues.
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She defines Social Purity as: raising the age of consent, the reformation of prostitutes, censorship of obscenity, and the advocacy of birth control through restraint [abstinence].
Women suppress pornography
The power of pussy, that’s why niggaz get their hair cut.
-R. Kelly
Among the alternatives to sex for men is pornography, the sex cartel theory suggests women would be expected to be against porn more than men. This is the case: far more women want pornography to be illegal than men
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Far more women than men think pornography should be illegal
In the UK, three times as many women than men think looking at pornography is wrong. Older women are more likely to think it is wrong than young women
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College age women are significantly more likely to want pornographic magazines and videos to be illegal than men.
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Female circumcision (female genital cutting) is mostly performed and supported by older women.
Got that super soaker pussy pop like cola coka
plus it’s tighter than a choka
got em smilin like the joka
got that na-na-na-na-na-na-na lil mama aint
on my linen when yo momma sleepin you can call me and get all up in it
bank roll gimmie all them pretty furs cause my pussy game cold when he hit it
She also challenges some common misconceptions around FGC, like the belief that it is forced on women by men. In fact, elderly women often do the most to perpetuate the custom.
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But when you talk to people on the ground, you also hear people talking about the idea that it [female circumcision] is women’s business. As in, it’s for women to decide this. If we look at the data across Africa, the support for the practice is stronger among women than among men.
So, the patriarchy argument is just not a simple one. Female circumcision is part of demarcating insider and outsider status. Are you part of this group of elder women who have power in their society?
The paper Cultural Suppression of Female Sexuality summarizes dozens of studies on this and concludes female genital cutting is mostly performed by women, and men are indifferent or oppose it
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the practices are most zealously defended by women (e.g., Boddy, 1989, 1998). Men seem generally indifferent (consistent with Greer’s impression that the men often do not even know). Some fathers object to having their daughters subincised or infibulated, but the men’s objections are overruled by the women in the family, who insist on having the operations performed (Lightfoot-Klein, 1989). Hicks (1996) also reported several findings indicating that men argued for less severe surgical practices but were thwarted by the women’s deter- mined support for the practices.
Who supports and perpetuates these practices of female genital surgery? The available evidence points strongly and consistently toward women. The decision about whether and when a particular girl will receive the operation is made by her mother or grandmother (Hicks, 1996; Lightfoot-Klein, 1989). The female peer group regards the operation as a mark of positive status, and girls who have not yet had it are sometimes mocked, teased, and derogated by their female peers (Lightfoot-Klein, 1989). The operation itself is nearly always performed by a woman such as a midwife. “Men are completely excluded,” according to one work on the topic (Boddy, 1989, p. 84).
Men in Islamic African countries prefer to marry uncircumcised women, because they find the women enjoy sex more
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A further study looked at 300 men in Islamic countries who had multiple wives, including at least one circumcised and one not circumcised. Nearly all the men reported they preferred the wife who was not circumcised. In cases where the wives had different forms of FGC, the men preferred the wife with the least severe operation.
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There is a social dynamic developing around FGM in African countries, that parallels that of slut shaming in the West: women that have been subjected to it, (and whose attractiveness has as a result waned), denigrate and shame those that have not been subjected to it.
The authors of the meta-study cited above conclude:
the evidence favors the view that women have worked to stifle each other’s sexuality because sex is a limited resource that women use to negotiate with men, and scarcity gives women an advantage.
the decisive influence appears to be the mothers. The decision appears to be up to the mother, and many mothers seem willing to insist on the operation over the father’s objections, whereas no mothers seem willing to refuse the operation when the father supports it. Thus, again, the genital surgery appears to be rooted in and controlled by the female culture. Therefore, the evidence regarding subincision and infibulation indicates that women control and maintain the practice.
The Sex Scam and Rape
The sex cartel also explains the extreme double standards over the rape of men and boys by women compared the rape of females by men (see the first in the greenpill series). The indignity and violation involved with rape, affects both male and female victims. There is evidence the emotional toll is higher on male than female victims
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. So it seems to be a paradox that under the supposed ‘Patriarchy’ female-on-male rape is trivialized while male-on-female rape is not.
However male-on-female rape is a direct threat to the basis of the sex cartel – to women who rely on selling sex male-on-female rape is ‘stealing’, but female-on-male rape is not.
Societies that are more permissive (where the cartel is weaker or non-existent) treat the rape of women less seriously, in fact similarly to how the rape of men is treated in our society. For example, in pre-contact Polynesia – which was a very permissive society by modern standards with no taboo against sex outside marriage – the punishment for rape of a woman was to support any resulting offspring
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On the other hand in Islamic countries, rape of females normally carries the death penalty
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For example Indonesia is a country which practices FGC and where women wear the hijab, and so one where the sex cartel is highly enforced. Here the punishment for men who rape women is the death penalty, while there is no specific law making it a crime for women to rape men (female rapists may be charged with “vulgar actions” carrying a lighter sentence). The reason given is that “the act [of female rape] is deemed to not do harm or result in something bad to male victims”
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Individuals with more traditional gynocentric attitudes to gender, for instance that men should always pay for dates, regard rape of females as a more serious crime than those with more egalitarian attitudes, in addition women regard rape of females as more serious than men do
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(of course researchers have not looked at attitudes to rape of men, but the theory predicts more traditional poeple will regard it as less serious than more egalitarian people).
Scientific Overviews
We have often heard discussions of the reason we do not find women, as a sex, in the vanguard of world affairs; why the great educators, strong figures in progressive or revolutionary movements, are men rather than women; why these movements, themselves, are made up almost entirely of men rather than women. People have asked over and over again why, in the fields of the arts, the sciences, in the world of “practical affairs,” men, rather than women, generally excel.
We believe the answer lies in the fact that women, as a sex, are the owners of a commodity vitally necessary to the health and well-being of man. Women occupy a more fortunate biologic, and in many countries, a more fortunate economic position, in the increasingly intensified struggle for existence. And the preferred class, the biologically and economically favored class, or sex, has rarely been efficient-to-do, has never been revolutionary to attack a social system that accords advantage to it.
As a sex, women have rarely been rebels or revolutionists. We do not see how they can ever be as long as there exists any system of exploitation to revolt against. Revolt comes from the submerged, never from the group occupying a favored place. Today the revolutionist is he who has nothing to sell but his labor power.
– Women As Sex Vendors (1918)
A number of scientific studies have come to the same conclusion, women collectively control sexual attitudes and laws to artificially drive up the price of sex.
The paper “Sexual Economics:Sex as Female Resource for Social Exchange in Heterosexual Interactions”
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gives an overview of the scientific case for the sex cartel, including more sources for the points made above. The authors take the view that the cartel is something women are somehow “forced into” by the oppressive males, otherwise it is a good summary.
the women in a community would potentially have a monopoly [on sex] if they could band together to reduce competition among themselves. A rational economic strategy that many monopolies or cartels have pursued is to try to increase the price of their assets by artificially restricting the supply. With sex, this would entail having the women put pressure on each other to exercise sexual restraint and hold out for a high price (such as a commitment to marriage) before engaging in sex.
Economic history suggests that such efforts, as in the case of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) are only intermittently successful and may often be undermined as individuals seek to underbid each other. Still, monopolies are sometimes sufficiently successful that most developed nations have found it necessary to enact laws against them. It would therefore not be surprising that economic self-interest would occasionally drive women to work together to restrain the availability of sex
– Roy F. Baumeister, Kathleen D. Vohs, “Sexual Economics:Sex as Female Resource for Social Exchange in Heterosexual Interactions”
A review of the research on sexual competition concluded that women use indirect aggression to socially exclude sexual rivals:
Indirect aggression includes behaviours such as criticizing a competitor’s appearance, spreading rumours about a person’s sexual behaviour and social exclusion. Human females have a particular proclivity for using indirect aggression, which is typically directed at other females, especially attractive and sexually available females, in the context of intrasexual competition for mates.
Indirect aggression is an effective intrasexual competition strategy. It is associated with a diminished willingness to compete on the part of victims and with greater dating and sexual behaviour among those who perpetrate the aggression.
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Feminist Views
Cause ain’t nothin’ goin’ on but the rent
You got to have a J-O-B if you wanna be with me
– Gwen Guthrie
Even feminists implicitly admit the link between economics and sex, the feminist historian Margaret Jackson writing on the 19th Century feminist campaigns on prostitution and age of consent, states:
It is clear that militant feminists were attempting to demonstrate that the question of sex slavery [prostitution] could not be separated from the broader question of women’s subordination, including their economic position; that it was central to male power and therefore central to women’s emancipation. Far from identifying with ‘Mrs Grundy’ [prudes], their clear intention was to expose what they saw as the real facts of life. By making the links between women’s’ economic position, the exploitation of their sexuality, and their subordination as a sex. they highlighted, rather than obscured, the economic basis of prostitution.
Underpinning the campaigns and the slogans was an analysis of the sexual economics of male power in which heterosexual relations were seen as power relations. This analysis was also reflected in the famous series of articles on venereal disease written by Christabel Pankhurst at the height of the campaign in 1913.
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The main interpretation of feminists is that all things they disagree with are the fault of men via ‘the Patriarchy’, however all the evidence shows that it is mostly women who enforce gender roles, including sexual double standards, and feminists even more than most women.
Objections
Wanna get me with no money
Oh no, I don’t want no
No scrub, no scrub (no, no)
– TLC
The main alternative view to the one presented here is that symptoms of the sex cartel are caused by evolved instincts, most of the scientific research that acknowledges female sexual competition has taken this interpretation.
However the existence of laws that enforce the sex scam shows it is at least partly cultural, as do societies with different sexual taboos, e.g. pre-contact Polynesia, or northern Thailand before the 19th century.
Feminism exists as a defender of the selfish sexual and reproductive interests of aging and/or unattractive women. This is its entire raison d’etre, the reason it first came into existence with the social purity movement reformers of the 19th century, led by their harridan battle cry – ‘armed with the ballot the mothers of America will legislate morality’.
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[most women] are unhappier than ever, coupled with a vague awareness that this requires not more economic and political independence for women, but rather a simple closure of the free sexual market and a return to traditionalism.
Feminism has always been about playing catch-up in the quest to stop new technology from widening the free sexual market and putting the sexual interests of unattractive women at risk
feminism is a sexual trade union for women reacting to changes in technology that continue to drive open the free sexual market (and put feminists, and the majority of women, at a sexual disadvantage)
Why is the woman of the streets, who spends her sex earnings upon her lover, scorned universally? Is it not because both are unconsciously violating the code, or the trade “understandings,” in giving not only of themselves, but their substance as well? These women are selling below the market, or scabbing on the job.
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2 replies on “The Sex War”
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