On the Nature of the Male Slut

This is dedicated to all the Goddesses

Many likely suppose that the common male, in his eagerness for frequent sex with multiple partners, is a natural slut. This is, IMO, a misunderstanding of the very nature of sluttery. For the male's interest -- indeed, obsession -- with sex is, in fact, frequently an attempt to live up to societal expectation. In this regard, it is as artificial and unseemly as the prude, who attempts to live up to the opposite standard. If anything, male prudishness -- while perhaps the less healthy disposition -- at least bucks the mainstream, and so has a certain rebelliousness of spirit to recommend it.

The male who sells out his sexual gratification to the whims of society has not the heroic figure of the slut -- he is simply a whore. For the slut, male or female, gratifies primarily the self, and those other individuals with whom the slut consciously chooses to share his or her sexuality. The slut is, in fact, a distinctly objectivist hero in this way.

In selling his sexuality cheaply, the common male, unlike the slut, enters as seller in a buyer's market. An indiscriminate lover, he is renowned for being always available at the convenience of any partner. He is thus a commodity, faceless and disposable.

The slut, by contrast, is discriminating. The slut does not seek ingress into the sexual world of another, but seeks to invite those others into his own. And the offer is by invitation only. Despite having -- indeed, reveling in -- the freedom of his sexuality, the slut is free as well to be a dedicated polygamist, with a harem of one. Thus bound by no expectation of any sort -- even the expectation of sluttiness -- the slut cannot be manipulated, but acts only at his choice and whim. The slut is therefore never a commodity, however his partner may think otherwise.

This is all to the advantage of the slut's partner(s); as the slut is not a commodity, there is no competition, as such, for his favors. The slut chooses his partners to suit himself, regardless of any "market forces" that may affect the less self-possessed; thus, the partner of the slut is ever free to be exactly herself, never enter the fray of cheapness or whorishness, for that does not motivate the slut (except perhaps as an aesthetic, and that can go either way).

While the male slut is not technically bound by consideration for others, this is almost universally shown. Due to the personal nature of the slut's relationships, he is not concerned with "return on investment"; he loves or not at his own pleasure and thus his lovers are no more commodities to him than he will deign to be to them. While perhaps not secure, the relationships of the slut are almost always honest. The true slut, because of his disdain for the easily manipulated, does not use his lovers, as his manipulation of them would ruin their appeal.

This, I hope, will serve as a primer to distinguish the dignified figure of the male slut from rabble of the more typical males. A greater purpose, however, will be served if, reading this, more males free themselves of the prison of societal expectation and embrace self-determination -- to become the slut that lies within us all.