History Main / AllWomenAreLustful

* Kris Munroe on ''CharliesAngels'' has always an eye for a gorgeous guy along with fun, aggressive attitude towards them. Even though she wasn't impressed with Toni's boys, Kris [[ShirtlessScene ogled male Angel Bob Sorenson and enjoyed watching a male stripper rehearse]] in the episode of the same name. In the episode, "Angel in Love" she quips, "I'm so disappointed. I thought sex would be running rampant."

But today, the usual representation of women as CloserToEarth flat-out negates the plausibility of AllWomenAreLustful, since sex drives, let alone sexual depravity, are considered incompatible with high moral standards. Which leads to the depiction of women as virtuous victims with a "pure" and wholesome sexuality as opposed to men's "dirty" and "degrading" perversion. Turn this aspect to eleven, you get the LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek.

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-> ''More! Better orgasms. More touching. We really are demon goddesses of lust.''
-> Naomi Wolf

-> PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt

* This trope is alive and flourishing on the internet. Since MostFanficWritersAreGirls and a [[PWP large]] [[KinkMeme portion]] [[Lemon of fanfic is]] [[RuleThirtyFour pornographic]], well, do the math.

* PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt plays this UptoEleven, with Panty only motivation being getting laid. The other female character display this to different levels (usually having weird fetishes). Some fans have taken this as a TakeThat to Magic Girlfriend shows and Moe, where most of the female characters are PuritySues. It should be noted AllMenArePerverts is still in full effect.

* PantyAndStockingWithGartbelt plays this UptoEleven, with Panty only motivation being getting laid. The other female character display this to different levels (usually having weird fetishes). Some fans have taken this as a TakeThat to Magic Girlfriend shows and Moe, where most of the female characters are PuritySues. It should be noted AllMenArePerverts is still in full effect.

->I'm breaking the news now, boys
->Us girls, we're full time horny, too

Us girls, we're full time horny, too

* Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha, authors of ''Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality'' posit that men and women were ''equally'' lustful in prehistoric hunter-gatherer clans and challenges the notion that women are non-sexual beings who are the reluctant gatekeepers of male satisfaction. In [[http://www.nerve.com/content/sex-at-dawn this interview]], Ryan asks why, if women are not sexual beings and have little use for sex, do so many cultures employ so many tactics to limit and suppress female sexuality (FGM, slut-shaming, cloistering, etc.)? However, Ryan and Jetha blame the rise of agriculture, and the concepts of ownership and the importance of paternal certainty, for giving rise to the notion that female sexuality is something that must be regulated.

* Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha, authors of ''Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality'' posit that men and women were ''equally'' lustful in prehistoric hunter-gatherer clans and challenges the notion that women are non-sexual beings who are the reluctant gatekeepers of male satisfaction. In [[http://www.nerve.com/content/sex-at-dawn this interview]], Ryan asks why, if women are not sexual beings and have little use for sex, do so many cultures employ so many tactics to limit and suppress female sexuality (FGM, slut-shaming, cloistering, etc.)?

Back in Ancient times, this trope actually used to exist in the stead of AllMenArePerverts. It was assumed that women were too sex-crazed to say no to sex, while men were supposed to be the virtuous ones and that being too sexual with women was an insult to a man's virility. Such beliefs created the LysistrataGambit, which was thought as comically absurd back then.

** In 9 Chickweed Lane exactly ''two'' of the male love intrests are nerdy. Two. Edda's grandfather Bill was very much the Manly Man, as was Gram's other love interest, albeit in a different way, and Thorax... well, he's [[ShapedLikeItself Thorax]]

* Kris Munroe on ''CharliesAngels'' has always an eye for a gorgeous guy along with fun, aggressive attitude towards them. Even though she wasn't impressed with Toni's boys, Kris [[ShirtlessScene ogled male Angel Bob Sorenson and enjoyed watching a male stripper rehearse]] in the episode of the same name. In the episode, "Angel in Love" she quips, "I'm so disappointed. I thought sex would be running rampant".

** The Women of Sodom and Gomorrah were portrayed this way.

** Probably because it swung from "look at those silly women, thinking they can hold out" to "look at those silly men, falling to pieces if they don't get any". Or "look at those silly people, all driven by their sexual urges to such ridiculous extremes".

* This applies to a LOT of pornography, either straight or with the variant that the women enjoy perversion for the sake of perversion and will gladly have sex with [[ThisLoserIsYou someone ugly-looking acting as a stand-in for the audience]].

* Big in {{ancient Greece}}, which is why women were cloistered away-- since you couldn't do paternity tests back then, aristocratic men kept their wives sequestered so he wouldn't end up a cuckold with a son who wasn't his own. Humorists of the time poked fun at this. Most famously {{Juvenal}} had his characters argue that the only way to be sure the women weren't having sex was to post guards to watch them. A beat later some wise-ass asks: [[{{Watchmen}} "But who will watch the watchmen?"]] (Which is why harems are traditionally guarded by castrated men...)

** [[SelfFulfillingProphecy Well that's just fascinating.]]

* Medieval usage of the word "rape" is known as "to kidnap", i.e. stealing her from her [[strike:husband or father]] rightful owner - Simply forcing oneself onto a woman was considered morally the same as [[DoubleStandard today's attitude]] towards [[RapeIsOkIfItsFemaleOnMale the reverse]]. Mind you, ''violently assaulting'' another mans woman ''and'' having sex with her was punishable by death in many medieval law codes. Conversely, it was frequently legal to kill an unfaithful wife caught in flagrante delicto.

** Most Lust demons seem hermaphorditic to this troper. In any case, they are meant to induce {{Squick}}, not lust in the player.

** How much more developed are we...now men (or some lesbians this troper knows) seem to think this trope is awesome, or something.

* The "Castle Anthrax" scene in MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail is a comedic illustration of this trope.
* {{Barbarella}}.
* Ladies in 40DaysAnd40Nights, once the main character takes himself off the market.

* '''All''' of Brook [=McEldowney's=] female characters. ''[[NineChickweedLane 9 Chickweed Lane]]'' featured a mature woman in her prime; the focus then shifted to her college-aged daughter Edda who engaged in hot, hot sex with her boyfriend Amos in front of a balloon full of Belgians with camera phones; now Edda's ''grandmother'' is recounting how she met her husband while nursing a crush on a [[strike: German]] Austrian POW to her daughter, granddaughter, and her granddaughter's ''ballet class'' (there's also a older female musician who tried to seduce Amos [[ForTheEvulz for the dramaz]]). ''{{Pibgorn}}'' has Pib herself, who is also in passionate love with her boyfriend Geoff, and Geoff's ex-girlfriend Drucilla, who's a succubus. Notably, [[AuthorAppeal all the male love interests are exceedingly nerdy.]]

* ''{{Twilight}}'' is very much a modern example of this trope, which is quite amusing, the author being the female, married Mormon housewife that she is.
** That makes her an [[InsultToRocks insult to other married Mormon housewives]].
** Are there many unmarried Mormon housewives?

* ''KingDork'' has a very [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate]] variant in that seemingly every teenage girl with a boyfriend is cheating on said boyfriend. Specifically, they all seem to love giving blowjobs to multiple guys.

* Big in {{ancient Greece}}, which is why women were cloistered away-- since you couldn't do paternity tests back then, aristocratic men kept their wives sequestered so he wouldn't end up a cuckold with a son who wasn't his own. Humorists of the time poked fun at this. Most famously {{Juvenal}} had his characters argue that the only way to be sure the women weren't having sex was to post guards to watch them. A beat later some wiseass asks: [[{{Watchmen}} "But who will watch the watchmen?"]] (Which is why harems are traditionally guarded by castrated men...)

** Or, y'know, anything else.