by Susan Boston

Created on: October 14, 2009   Last Updated: October 15, 2009

Sexual promiscuity while back in the day certainly divided the standards between men and women, no longer plays a part in today's social standards. The later part of the 50's was the beginning of the end to social differences between the sexuality of men and women.

More and more women began the shift over to the workforce. In addition, the divorce rate began to climb. Women took over doing what society had considered the man's role. What use to be taboo in social circles became in time the normal way of life.

The 60's supposed sexual revolution added somewhat to the open idea of multiple partners however, women's promiscuity still was considered not socially acceptable where men retained the "boys will be boys" stigma.

Eventually the stigma for men took an ugly turn from stigma to "Player". Women went from shameless hussy to woman of the world. There lies the turn of sexual acceptance and or equality between men and women. The next shift of acceptance arrived with gay and lesbian rights movements.

Lesbian and gay rights became another diversion of attention for the raised eyebrows of society. The coming out of major movies stars, family, friends, neighbors and co-workers further drew the attention away from the sexuality of women. The fact is the promiscuity of men or women no longer mattered.

The topic of Gay and Lesbian Rights brought about yet another diversion. The diversion was AIDS. Once this disease was thought to be something only gays and lesbians contracted. We now know it is contractible to humans in general.

The question of "How many people have you slept with" took on a completely new meaning when AIDS became known. Normally that question was to determine a person's ability in relationships. Today the question is for mathematical and safety reasons. With every person, the partner has slept with the percentage of getting the disease goes up. This equation has become the center of social focus.

Women's sexual activity paled in comparison to the problems now facing the world. Society started to look at men as well as women equally as possible carriers of some hideous disease. Standards have seriously shifted.

Today society is not concerned if it is a man or woman out sleeping around. The concern today is the spread of disease. Society determines what is proper.

Society today no longer dwells on women's sexual exploits; attentions have been turn to other social events. This shifting of attention has brought acceptance of the sexuality of women through diversion.

Therefore, no longer do we have a separation of standards. Standards today combined the same stigma and warnings for male as well as female.

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