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'''Slut''' is a slang term used to indicate a person who has frequent sexual relationships with different people, especially short-term affairs. It is also applied to people who are promiscuous in that they have, or are reputed to have, many sexual partners, or whose sexuality is voracious, indiscriminate, and shameful. | '''Slut''' is a slang term used to indicate a person who has frequent sexual relationships with different people, especially short-term affairs. It is also applied to people who are promiscuous in that they have, or are reputed to have, many sexual partners, or whose sexuality is voracious, indiscriminate, and shameful. | ||
| − | The term is usually applied to women (and can be compared to the more negative ''slag'') but is also often used in the [[gay]] male and bisexual communities. | + | The term is usually applied to women (and can be compared to the more negative ''slag'') but is also often used in the [[gay]] male and bisexual communities. A longstanding joke explains that a ''slut'' is "a woman with the morals of a man." |
This term is often regarded as offensive, as in throwing mud, when used by others, but, especially in the gay and bisexual communities, may be used by the person concerned as an expression of pride in their status, or as an expression of enviousness in their "success rate" by others. | This term is often regarded as offensive, as in throwing mud, when used by others, but, especially in the gay and bisexual communities, may be used by the person concerned as an expression of pride in their status, or as an expression of enviousness in their "success rate" by others. | ||
Revision as of 06:26, 9 January 2006
Slut is a slang term used to indicate a person who has frequent sexual relationships with different people, especially short-term affairs. It is also applied to people who are promiscuous in that they have, or are reputed to have, many sexual partners, or whose sexuality is voracious, indiscriminate, and shameful.
The term is usually applied to women (and can be compared to the more negative slag) but is also often used in the gay male and bisexual communities. A longstanding joke explains that a slut is "a woman with the morals of a man."
This term is often regarded as offensive, as in throwing mud, when used by others, but, especially in the gay and bisexual communities, may be used by the person concerned as an expression of pride in their status, or as an expression of enviousness in their "success rate" by others.
With polyamorous and non-monogamous people, in usage taken from the book The Ethical Slut, the term has been reclaimed as an expression of choice to openly have multiple partners, and revel in that choice: "A slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical proposition that sex is nice and pleasure is good for you".
Within the BDSM context it is often used in scenes and roleplay to refer to a slave who is in a heightened sexual state.
