Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism (Kristen Ghodsee, 2018)
"In one sociological study conducted in the early 1970s, researchers surveyed the sexual attitudes of 250 young students and workers between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four.
Young Hungarians read eight stories about sexual practices that were considered common in their country and then ranked them based on whether they liked or disliked the protagonists. (…)
Particularly fascinating, in relation to sexual economics theory, are the reasons given for the resounding disapproval of the prostitute character.
The respondents believed that the prostitute had no legitimate reasons to sell her affections since the socialist state met her basic needs.
They also worried that “emotionless sex” would be bad for her personal development.
Interestingly, the male and female students were more sympathetic to the gay man, and the female students actually ranked the “womanizer” below the gay man, suggesting that their distaste for promiscuity (for both men and women) was greater than their early-1970s homophobia. (…)
In the same survey, researchers asked respondents in Hungary and the United States: “If a woman wants to have a child as a single parent but she doesn’t want to have a stable relationship with a man, do you approve or disapprove?”
Only 8 percent of the Hungarians said they “disapproved,” compared to 56 percent of Americans, demonstrating a much more liberal attitude toward single mothers and women’s independence in the state socialist country.
Furthermore, whereas 63 percent of Americans reported that prostitution is “never justifiable,” a full 80 percent of the Hungarians surveyed said the same.
An even bigger gap appears when the data for this question are disaggregated by gender: only 55 percent of American men claimed that prostitution was “never justifiable,” compared to 76 percent of Hungarian men.
The latter were perhaps more averse to prostitution because they had been raised in a society that strove to decouple sex and romance from economic exchange."
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