The women in question are considered "bad" because of a naked picture, presumably showing their sexuality. I would call that sex-negative. How can the word "sl

The women in question are considered "bad" because of a naked picture, presumably showing their sexuality. I would call that sex-negative. How can the word "slut" be considered a slur in a sex-positive society? Now, perhaps your point is that it is sex-positive, but only for men. The inequity of sex-acceptability is this: men have their status increased by the act of sex, and women have their status decreased by the act of sex. (Even this is problematic, but it works in general.) The question is this: is the right answer to normalize having sex with multiple partners so that the woman's status is not decreased by sexual activity, or is it to decrease the man's status by not being constrained to a monogamous relationship? Consider the gay male culture: within the culture, having sex is normalized -- it does not decrease one's status to have had sex with just about anyone. (this is problematized by AIDS, but stick with me.) A culture of sex-positivity may look like this: yes, it's highly sexualized, but within the culture there isn't a taboo of sex. A sex-negative culture, on the other hand, places shame on the participants of sex except within rigid boundaries. Is this better than sex-positivity? I argue no. The US culture, with respects to women, is heavily sexualized but isn't sex-positive.