Gender-Based Sexual Inequality

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In this article, the writer notes that gender equality in the United States has achieved tremendous strides, particularly since the middle of the last century. However, the writer discusses that the gender-based double moral standard for sexual conduct is one specific component of sexual inequality that remains a fixture, even in the 21st century, throughout most of American society. The writer argues that the gender-based sexual double standard is logically indefensible on any level. The writer concludes that it persists throughout most of American culture, and sadly, its manifestations in the Western World are infinitely more benign than the cruelty it inspires elsewhere.

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Conclusion

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"It is an attitude that survives virtually intact despite all the other very substantial areas of progress defined and enforced by the weight of constitutional law. In large part, it is likely due, precisely, to the fact that it is a function of social mores that are primarily perpetuated from generation to generation and the fact that they are not associated with any quantifiable deprivation of rights or conduct that is addressable by rules of law.
"Besides the degree to which logically-sound moral and intellectual criticism of this aspect of American culture suggest the need for change, there are also significant social consequences to gender-based sexual morality that affect men and society as a whole, in addition to the obvious ramifications to women in American society."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Baker, R., Elliston, F. (1998) Philosophy & Sex. Buffalo: Prometheus
• Committee on the College Student, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. (1966). Sex and the College Student. New York: Atheneum
• Geddes, D.P. (1954) An Analysis of the Kinsey Reports on Sexual behavior in the Human Male and Female. New York: Mentor
• Henslin, J.M. (2002) Essential of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach. Boston: Allyn and Bacon
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