Women's Sexual Freedom Is Reactionary

Introduction
We will discuss here how and why women sexual freedom has become a tool of US Hegemony against its adversaries. Women freedom was initiated by Marxist Leninist movement of 20th century. But after late 1960s, women issue had been hijacked by US Hegemony. We will discuss here how women freedom advanced gradually in three successive stages: economic freedom, political freedom and sexual freedom. The article will explain why women's economic freedom and political freedom is progressive in nature while sexual freedom is reactionary. It will also be discussed why demand for sexual freedom will succeed the demand for economic and political freedom naturally. It is finally concluded that if US Hegemony is to be defeated, women sexual freedom must be analyzed thoroughly and its reactionary character must be dealt with by anti US Hegemony progressives.


Women's Economic Freedom
Since the sex revolution of late-1960s, USA was using women's freedom as a tool to control both Western as well as non Western societies. Here we will segregate women's freedom into economic, political and sexual. Women's economic freedom has huge progressive impact on the growth of productive forces of both Western world and non Western world. In fact women's participation in job market helped in reduction of the gap in productive forces between First World and Third World. China's huge economic growth owes a lot to 65% women participation rate in labor market. It is China's economic growth that has destroyed unipolar world and multipolar world is emerging out of its ruins.


Women's Political Freedom
Women's political freedom is hardly hundred years old. UK gave women right to vote and contest elections in 1918, USA gave same in 1920, France and Japan in 1945. USSR gave short life Communist German government first gave women equal political rights as men between 1917 and 1920. It is actually competition with communists that forced West to give women equal political rights like men. Women began to use their vote bank to achieve many privileges especially in courts. Alimony laws were so designed that men began to find marriage a loss making deal. Gradually men started avoiding marriage. Similarly, using women vote bank, women are trying to suppress any demand for freedom by different segments of men especially sexual freedom of common men (distinct from elite men). In a multi party electoral democracy framework, women's political freedom is surely reactionary due to vote bank politics. But in other form of government, women's political freedom may not be reactionary as vote bank politics will not come into play.


Women's Sexual Freedom
As women got economic freedom, their economic dependence on their husbands and fathers got reduced considerably. Women found no reason to allow their husbands to have monopoly of sex with them. Gradually women began to protest against husband's monopoly to have sex with them and instead they sought freedom to have sex with any men they prefer. But who will be preferred men? Women by nature will choose only powerful men as their partners. Who will be considered powerful men? From primitive instinct women can identify "taller", "muscular" men as powerful since in primitive days a man needed those qualities to emerge victorious in life struggle. Similarly women can also epitomize power of men in their wealth, job, educational degrees. Several women can become pregnant from one powerful man in a month. So from the perspective of women, their chosen men partners are non-rival goods because becoming pregnant from one man does not prevent another woman from becoming pregnant by the same man.


Men's choice for partners by nature are much more constrained. Men choose women with physical traits ideal for giving birth. Men often look into the wealth, job, educational attainment of women too but since women can give birth up to a certain age only men usually refuse aged women with lot of wealth or education. This is because men do not consider aged women good enough for giving birth. So most men end up choosing young women with ideal physical traits as partners. But many men cannot impregnate a woman in a short time span. A woman once get pregnant by a man cannot get same by another man for almost a year. So from men's perspective their chosen women partners are rival goods because becoming pregnant by one man prevents another man from making the same woman pregnant for almost one year.


So men have to fight for the desired woman while women do not have to fight for the desired man. Naturally, most powerful men always get the most desired women. Average common men have to settle with less desired women. But if women have sexual freedom then both most desired as well as less desired women will end up seeking most powerful men as sex partners. Since men are non-rival goods for women, both desired and non-desired women will find it natural to flock to rich tall muscular men leaving common men without sex partners. Common men thus have to compete for less desired women. They have to commit too much share of their little wealth and endure too much humiliation in order to get even a below average (from the perspective of sex partner choice) woman. Women began to squeeze common men using the latter's unfulfilled desire for sex. Thus common men have to accept the superiority of chosen elite men in the name of respecting women's sexual choice. Common have thus have little moral strength left to oppose the elite men and women become tool of elite men to control the common men.


Another important point is women usually go for best partner or none while men usually go for whatever available. This is because women have to endure 10 months 10 weeks of long pregnancy during which women have to remain dependent on others. Even after giving birth babies remain dependent on mothers for at least one year. So cost of giving birth is too high for women and women will be ready for it only when they are ensured about the quality of progeny they will get. Men on the other hand have no biological cost of giving birth. So men are ready to give birth even if the progeny they get are below their desired quality. Thus while women opt for the best men partners so that the cost they pay worth it, men will go for any women partner available as they do not have to pay too much.


Conclusion
So if we segregate women freedom into economic freedom, political freedom and sexual freedom, we find that economic freedom is very much progressive as it helps to reduce global inequality in productive forces between First World and Third World. Women's political freedom in multi party electoral democratic system has ended up creating a strong interest group in the society which only thinks about own self interest at the cost of social interest. But it is women's sexual freedom that is reactionary by nature as it establishes the superiority of richer taller muscular men over common men. Sex becomes a costly affair for men and only elite men end up affording it. Common men are left with little moral strength to oppose the elite men while women become tool of elite men.
 

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Author: Saikat Bhattacharya

Theoretical Sex War feminism 29-January-2023 by east is rising