700. Research Concerning Female Self-Abuse
This is entry 700 and I am still blogging to find a mindmate, who is not predominantly an instinct driven animal, but someone, who values a woman's brain more than her body.
All I want is to find one such man. Where is he?
Sometimes in matchmaking sites they suggest answering among other questions, what one would change, if one were a deity able to create a better world.
My answer: I would change the male biology. I would recreate a different version of men, who would never feel an urge to abuse a woman's body and remain emotionally unattached. I would create men, who crave for emotional attachment and monogamous bonding and who would only consider, need and experience physical intimacy as a consequence of this. I would create men, who never touch a woman, unless they also want and intend to share their lives with her.
This is entry 700 and I am still blogging to find a mindmate, who is not predominantly an instinct driven animal, but someone, who values a woman's brain more than her body.
All I want is to find one such man. Where is he?
Sometimes in matchmaking sites they suggest answering among other questions, what one would change, if one were a deity able to create a better world.
My answer: I would change the male biology. I would recreate a different version of men, who would never feel an urge to abuse a woman's body and remain emotionally unattached. I would create men, who crave for emotional attachment and monogamous bonding and who would only consider, need and experience physical intimacy as a consequence of this. I would create men, who never touch a woman, unless they also want and intend to share their lives with her.
A few such men do exist, but if all men were like this, the world would be a much better place for women.
In entry 688 I listed some of foolish women's reason for participating in self-abuse.
I omitted one more unfortunate reason for female self-abuse. Many foolish women compete for whom they perceive as alpha males and reject the others, whom they could have for themselves without competition.
In long bygone times, women competed for men by their looks, the social status of their parents and their quality of character and personality.
Due to male power over the media, the present social norm of promiscuity has the side effect of many women having been brainwashed to accept self-abuse as the unavoidable price to be accepted by men. Today women compete by making themselves available for self-abuse and by presenting themselves in a way to trigger men's wish to abuse them. These women have the delusion to get a relationship with alpha men by allowing their bodies to be abused before another woman makes her body available.
But self-abuse is detrimental for women, as two studies indicate:
1. There is a study showing the distinction between the attitudes of the genders concerning what is the best pursuit of self-interest.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131125164745.htm
In entry 688 I listed some of foolish women's reason for participating in self-abuse.
I omitted one more unfortunate reason for female self-abuse. Many foolish women compete for whom they perceive as alpha males and reject the others, whom they could have for themselves without competition.
In long bygone times, women competed for men by their looks, the social status of their parents and their quality of character and personality.
Due to male power over the media, the present social norm of promiscuity has the side effect of many women having been brainwashed to accept self-abuse as the unavoidable price to be accepted by men. Today women compete by making themselves available for self-abuse and by presenting themselves in a way to trigger men's wish to abuse them. These women have the delusion to get a relationship with alpha men by allowing their bodies to be abused before another woman makes her body available.
But self-abuse is detrimental for women, as two studies indicate:
1. There is a study showing the distinction between the attitudes of the genders concerning what is the best pursuit of self-interest.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131125164745.htm
"In the largest, most in-depth study to date on regret surrounding sexual activity, a team of psychology researchers found a stark contrast in remorse between men and women, potentially shedding light on the evolutionary history of human nature."
"They suggest that men are more likely to regret not taking action on a potential liaison, and women are more remorseful for engaging in one-time liaisons."
""For men throughout evolutionary history, every missed opportunity to have sex with a new partner is potentially a missed reproduce opportunity -- a costly loss from an evolutionary perspective." Haselton says. "But for women, reproduction required much more investment in each offspring, including nine months of pregnancy and potentially two additional years of breastfeeding. The consequences of casual sex were so much higher for women than for men, and this is likely to have shaped emotional reactions to sexual liaisons even today.""
"According to the findings:
The top three most common regrets for women are: losing virginity to the wrong partner (24 percent), cheating on a present or past partner (23 percent) and moving too fast sexually (20 percent).
For men, the top three regrets are: being too shy to make a move on a prospective sexual partner (27 percent), not being more sexually adventurous when young (23 percent) and not being more sexually adventurous during their single days (19 percent)."
These asymmetrical regrets reflect the impact of the current social norm of promiscuity, which represents the men with the strongest urge to abuse as if they were average. Male regrets are about failing to perform as much abuse as prescribed by the norm. Women regret to have been misled by the norm to act in a self-damaging way, hurting themselves by the denial of their emotional needs.
Men are encouraged to feel entitled to more abuse, women learn the stupidity of self-abuse often only, when it is too late.
2. A study indicates, that self-abuse is unhealthy:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2013.848255#tabModule
"“Hookups” are sexual encounters between partners who are not in a romantic relationship and do not expect commitment. We examined the associations between sexual hookup behavior and depression, sexual victimization (SV), and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among first-year college women. In this longitudinal study, 483 women completed 13 monthly surveys assessing oral and vaginal sex with hookup and romantic partners, depression, SV, and self-reported STIs. Participants also provided biological specimens that were tested for STIs. During the study, 50% of participants reported hookup sex and 62% reported romantic sex. "
"hookup behavior during college was positively correlated with experiencing clinically significant depression symptoms. Sex in the context of romantic relationships was not correlated with depression."
"Approximately one-quarter of the sample reported at least one instance of SV by way of physical force, threats of harm, or incapacitation during the yearlong study."
"hookup behavior during the study was a significant predictor of incident STIs"
"The potential for negative health and social outcomes suggest the need for proactive educational efforts"
This is a tragic vicious circle. Women are misled to mistake self-abuse as the only successful method to find a partner for their emotional needs. This instrumental compliance reinforces the male delusion, that women would benefit when in reality they are abused. Thus even those men, who would not abuse a woman, were they aware of what they are really doing, do not hesitate to abuse women pretending their compliance to be their true wish. The male delusion of mistaking purposeful self-abuse for beneficial self-interested behaviors bears the risk, that sometimes men may believe to do something beneficial and pleasing to not consenting victims.
