Scrupulous sleeping around on "The Ethical Slut"

Jessica Steinhoff
Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:00:00 -0000

Hussy, floozy, strumpet, slut: So many colorful words have been invented to weaken a woman's power by condemning her sexual past, even without knowledge of her actual behavior. Many of these terms come from the Victorian Era, when a lady's virtue was measured by her aloofness. Desires -- material, sexual and otherwise -- were the province of fallen women, the lowest of the low.