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““nasty, rank, rammy, filthy Sluts.” So grotesque were these spinsters, Satyr continued, that they ought to hurl themselves into matrimony with whoever they could find to take them, even idiots, lechers, or lepers, so that they could avoid being “piss’d on with Contempt” for their unseemly, unwomanly, inappropriate singleness.[1] By 1962, well before the so-called “sexual revolution” or even the feminist slogan “a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle,” Helen Gurley Brown could wr...ite in Sex and the Single Girl, “I think marriage is insurance for the worst years of your life. During your best years you don’t need a husband. You do need a man of course every step of the way, but they are often cheaper emotionally and a lot more fun by the dozen.”
Clearly, something major changed between 1713 and 1962. But it wasn’t just a shift in attitudes about single women. The transformation of the unmarried woman, from repellent, ridiculous freak to savvy, sophisticated bachelorette, could be more accurately viewed as an indicator of far larger and deeper changes in how people of all sexes thought about and experienced heterosexuality.MoreLess
Clearly, something major changed between 1713 and 1962. But it wasn’t just a shift in attitudes about single women. The transformation of the unmarried woman, from repellent, ridiculous freak to savvy, sophisticated bachelorette, could be more accurately viewed as an indicator of far larger and deeper changes in how people of all sexes thought about and experienced heterosexuality.MoreLess
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