Varför vill ni feminister förbjuda mig från att köpa sex?

Research that was reviewed by Baumeister and Twenge found support for the theory
of a particular sexual control exerted among and by women. Mothers and female
friends teach girls and young women to exercise greater sexual restraint than men.
The rite of passage into womanhood is still often via motherhood rather than any
sexual performance. Even the custom of female genital mutilation has been upheld
by women. It is the girls’ boyfriends who try to encourage them to be more sexually
active.
Even adult women receive more negative feedback from other women, not men,
whenever they offend against sexual norms. Women are also more likely to support double standards by condemning the same sexual behaviour more harshly for
women than for men. It is important for women to restrict the sexual activity of
other women, so that they minimize their own risk of losing their man in the event
that they do not measure up to the man’s sexual expectations. It would be difficult
for the man to find another woman in those circumstances. Both men and women
want their spouses to remain faithful. Wives, however, have been more sexually
possessive than husbands.
The legislation (created by men) that governs sexual behaviour primarily provides
sexual restrictions directed at men. It is women who for the most part apply religious
sexual norms into practice. Women are more likely than men to support norms that
promote sexual restraint, whereas men are more likely than women to support a
liberal approach to sexual matters. Justifications for this have included that women’s
mere sexual liberation without economic and political liberation may place women
in an even more difficult situation.
Many women oppose alternative forms of sexual enjoyment for men, including
prostitution and pornography. This opposition is consistent with the idea that women
want to control men’s opportunities for sexual enjoyment. This fits in with the sexual
exchange theory presented in an earlier chapter on commercial sex, and with the idea
that women have an interest in keeping the price of sex as high as possible.