America is a sex negative Puritanical culture which is both obsessed with and repelled by the very notion of human sexuality. In America all women are judged in terms o the Madonna/prostitute complex. That is a woman is either :"loose" i.e/ a slut,whore, 'ho, skank, or nymphomaniac which means that she embraces her sexuality and celebrates her sexuality just as a man would--no more no less. Or she is a lady: i.e. classy, conservative and seemingly asexual. It's ludricrous that 40 years after the so-called sexual revolution , this double standard in sexual mores STILL exists. It should not. Even more ludicrous than the sex negativity of new millenium American society is the bizarre notion that a politician's choice of a wife (or husband) has ANYTHING to do with how well he or she will do the job. It's sad. And more than a little frightening that Americans are so narrow minded, sexually repressed, misogynistic, and downright stupid. Perhaps, as Kinsey supposedly once comented, it would have been better if the Puritans had srated home.
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