is promiscuity a sign of mentaL iLLness?

[sniffa]

copy cat yes, but seriousLy - i know promiscuity is often pointed to as a fLag for bi-poLar (and probabLy other disorders) but i've onLy seen it fLagged for women.

i think it's a crock of hoohah - they just want to drug everyone into the fundy LifestyLe. :P

[StopTheMorans]

1. nope, just a sign of being "ill"

and by "ill", i mean "phat" :silly:

[sniffa]

3. that's stupid def

[StopTheMorans]

6. fo shizzle n/tizzle

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. no

[redqueen]

4. Only flagged for women?

Gee, why does that NOT surprise me?

[sniffa]

9. seriousLy though

i've never heard (as someone immersed with crazy peopLe) of a maLe being fLagged.

[redqueen]

11. Oh I'm sure you're serious.

Gotta love the mens bein' in charge. Yes indeedy.

:eyes:

[AntiFascist]

35. AHHH HAAAAA!!!!

You're one of THEM!

(and what's this about bi?)

[hippiechick]

5. Mental 'illness', no ... self-esteem issues -- likely.

Spoken as a true, former hoochie who did it for all the wrong reasons.


:hippie:

[the Princess]

7. OK so I'm crazy

But I'm happy!:)

[Cadence]

8. I think it would be a sign

of being fear based. No not mental illness.

[lojasmo]

10. I think it's a sign of societal illness. N/T

[brainshrub]

12. Only if your a hetro female.

It's a classic double-standard.

[skygazer]

13. There are a bunch of reasons for promiscuity

One might be mental illness but I don't really think so.

I think a major reason is curiosity - hell, when I was a teenager and young adult, my friends and I all slept with our other friends - it was kind of a casual thing (late 70's). We didn't think about STD's then - it was pregnancy that was the worry. But it was curiosity, we were learning about sex.

Another reason is low self esteem. I've known a number of people who equate sex with love and who slept around in a bid to win affection. That's sad.

Then there's fear of committment or no desire to commit.

And of course, there are just people who enjoy sex and who enjoy the excitement of sex with new and different people.

If that's all mental illness, then we're all nuts, I guess.

[Liberal Veteran]

14. No more than intense religious belief is a sign of mental illness.

Seriously, there are people who are mentally ill who are promiscuous and there are those who are not mentally ill who are promiscous.

Same holds true with lots of thing including intense religious faith. There are people who believe that "God" tells them to do some really bizarre stuff.

I think a lot of things get mucked up in pop-psychology that tend to see corellation between things that don't necessarily exist.

I don't think one can take any behavior out of context of overall mental health, it brings us back to bottom line where saying "Is this a sign of that" can sometimes lead us to faulty conclusions.

Is wearing mismatched clothes a sign of mental illness? Possibly. But if you take it in context, it could just be a sign of bad fashion sense too.

[sniffa]

17. or coLor bLindness

[autorank]

15. so sniffa, are you feeling crazy today?

[sniffa]

18. of course

every day

[autorank]

26. Me too -- I think you're contagious

[La Lioness Priyanka]

16. not generally

but i remember now that there is strong connection between bulimia and promiscuity...so maybe for some and not for others

[barb162]

19. define promiscuity first

[StopTheMorans]

20. here ya go:

Main Entry: pro·mis·cu·i·ty
Pronunciation: "prä-m&-'skyü-&-tE, "prO-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ties
1 : a miscellaneous mixture or mingling of persons or things
2 : promiscuous sexual behavior

:silly:

[barb162]

23. that first definition seems like an average Xmas party, doesn't it

The reason I asked for a definition is I have never heard that word being applied to a male

[StClone]

21. It occurs almost every where in the animal kingdom

That doesn't mean it right, but much of our behavior may have stems to earlier animal life. A brain should be able to over-ride animal tendencies like war right?

[StopTheMorans]

22. you can't equate war and sex, that's just evil

:P

[Southpaw Bookworm]

24. Interestingly enough

I'm in the middle of a book called "Barren in the Promised Land" about childlessness in America. I just finished a chapter about the history of involuntary sterilization in the United States. Most of those subjected to this forced surgery were poor women who had been institutionalized on the basis that they were "feeble-minded." The determinant of feeblemindedness: their social class and whether they were considered "promiscuous" (IOW, had been engaged in premarital sex in some form). In one case, a 15-year-old girl was deemed such after her stepfather got her pregnant.

[sniffa]

25. it stiLL happens in a watered down sense

not the institutionaLization because of it, but docs stiLL ask women about their sexuaL patterns as a tooL for diagnosis. i think it's a shame. more shamefuL when it's a femaLe doctor foLLowing the same methodoLogy.

[Deja Q]

27. Fundie drugs. At least they didn't write for Pokemon...

I can see really goofily-drawn pills with that little cute gizmo cat drawing thing saying "Gotta swallow them all!"

:scared:

[Bouncy Ball]

28. No.

Not necessarily. I was once promiscuous (well, semi-) and have not been in many years. I was never mentally ill. I just enjoyed sex!

LOL!

[jellybelly]

29. only yucky girls...

Not a mental illness, girls who are promiscuous are just starving for attention and they're ugly. The truly beautiful girls I knew didn't let men touch them, not because they're conservative. They did that for control and to drive men crazy.

[bigwillq]

30. Who's that in your avatar? (nt)

[sniffa]

31. that's me

:hi:

[jonnyblitz]

32. I need to learn how to make homemade avatars.

:P :hi:

[sniffa]

34. do what i do

ask a DUer to make it for you. :P

[jonnyblitz]

36. there are sites that tell you how

I used to have one bookmarked. i will find it...

[Bombtrack]

33. No it's a sign of not being uptight and ashamed of what's natural

There's a hell of alot less throwing around of the word "slut" in places like Spain and Italy where they have a more evolved view of sex than this whacked out religious country.

[Cerridwen]

37. Nope. Just another sign of society trying to wedge us all into

a very narrowly defined "norm." I wish I could understand why so freaking many people appear to be afraid of sexual women. I just don't get that.

:shrug: