Men are urged to be sexual aggressors, inherently causing them to ignore their self control; while the men who do not maintain sexual activity are ostracized from groups. This discourse is so powerful that it also makes women re-enforce this standard believing that a man cannot control themselves sexually, essentially placing blame of rape or sexual assault the fault of the women because she was not able to ‘gatekeeper’ sex. Women’s sexual desires on the other hand are ignored because they are supposed to have lower sex drives than that of men. Often time’s women get labeled for being sexually active; the current most common label among North American society is the slut
Men are urged to be sexual aggressors, inherently causing them to ignore their self control; while the men who do not maintain sexual activity are ostracized from groups. This discourse is so powerful that it also makes women re-enforce this standard believing that a man cannot control themselves sexually, essentially placing blame of rape or sexual assault the fault of the women because she was not able to ‘gatekeeper’ sex. Women’s sexual desires on the other hand are ignored because they are supposed to have lower sex drives than that of men. Often time’s women get labeled for being sexually active; the current most common label among North American society is the slut