》A complex is a core pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme, such as power or status.
》The Madonna Whore Complex (MWC) is a psychological complex often perpetuated by heterosexual, cisgender males which places women into two categories the "Madonna, " a woman who is pure, virtuous, and nurturing, or a "Whore," a woman who is deemed as overly sexual, manipulating, and promiscuous.
》In psychoanalytic literature, a Madonna-whore complex is the inability to maintain sexual arousal within a committed, loving relationship.
》According to Freudian psychology, this complex often develops when the sufferer is raised by a cold and distant mother. Such a man will often court women with qualities of his mother, hoping to fulfill a need for intimacy unmet in childhood.
》the wife begins to be seen as mother to the husband — a Madonna figure — and thus not a possible object of sexual attraction.
》Popularly, the term is used to describe an unsatisfiable desire by a man to have his wife or other female partner exhibit both of these mutually exclusive traits.
》Feminist theory suggests that the MWC is deeply rooted in upholding our patriarchal society in an attempt to control women's sexual autonomy. Shaming women with sexual freedom reinforces harmful gender stereotypes and double standards, allowing men to maintain a position of power.
This isn't an excuse to be a man whore.... sorry boys :/
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