1) What is promiscuity to you? Having sex with many different people though I've never tried quantifying how many. I think that depends on circumstances, how many would mean promiscuous. 2) Is promiscuity *bad*? Not unless it hurts anyone (promiscuous person included). But it is tricky because sometimes people's expectations are not clear. 3) Do you apply the term to both men and women? Equally? Yes and I have a huge problem with the way society applies different standards here. 4) Does your use of the word rely on your religious belief (or lack thereof)? I don't associate it with religion but I don't really judge much of anything based on religion so I guess that reflects my lack of religious beliefs...eh. 5) Is it quantitative or qualitative? Quantitative. In the sense that casual sex or serial dater are not so different, I mean. 6) Do you consider yourself promiscuous? Anyone you know? Not really... I guess my threshold for the term is a bit high. 7) Does the act of sex create or maintain some level of intimacy for you? All by itself? I'd say no. 8) Can you have sex without intimacy? yes 9) Can you have intimacy without sex? yes 10) Does the sexual orientation of the person have any bearing on whether they are considered promiscuous? For me no. I keep hearing that gay men are more promiscuous but like most shit people say about gay men I don't think they thought it through.
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1) What is promiscuity to you? Having sex with many different people though I've never tried quantifying how many. I think that depends on circumstances, how many would mean promiscuous.
2) Is promiscuity *bad*? Not unless it hurts anyone (promiscuous person included). But it is tricky because sometimes people's expectations are not clear.
3) Do you apply the term to both men and women? Equally? Yes and I have a huge problem with the way society applies different standards here.
4) Does your use of the word rely on your religious belief (or lack thereof)? I don't associate it with religion but I don't really judge much of anything based on religion so I guess that reflects my lack of religious beliefs...eh.
5) Is it quantitative or qualitative? Quantitative. In the sense that casual sex or serial dater are not so different, I mean.
6) Do you consider yourself promiscuous? Anyone you know? Not really... I guess my threshold for the term is a bit high.
7) Does the act of sex create or maintain some level of intimacy for you? All by itself? I'd say no.
8) Can you have sex without intimacy? yes
9) Can you have intimacy without sex? yes
10) Does the sexual orientation of the person have any bearing on whether they are considered promiscuous? For me no. I keep hearing that gay men are more promiscuous but like most shit people say about gay men I don't think they thought it through.
Hope that helps :)