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16 Dec 2013 / #511
Merged: Polish women and attitudes to sexuality
A friend of mine recently broke up from a year-long relationship with a Polish girl. He says he is glad to be out of it because of what he describes as her 'sexual hang-ups' and is advising others around him (he's British, living in the UK) not to date Polish women, because of what he experienced. I suspect his ex was not typical, so would be interested to hear from people here whether or not he's right.
The basic problem as he describes it is that his ex had been brought up to believe that female masturbation is absolutely, horrifically immoral and must never be done. That would be fair enough, except that it was combined with a high sex drive and a belief that it was his job to meet her sexual needs, whenever they arose. So she would call him up saying she was horny and ask him to come round and sort her out. Even if he didn't feel like it, or had other things he needed to do (such as working or sleeping).
It's not as if she was a devout Catholic, because she had sex with him and had been with other men before, despite being unmarried. He says she just believed that women shouldn't touch themselves sexually, I think because she saw it as men's job to please women and a sign of failure if a woman does it herself.
When he first told me I thought he was mad, because my experience of Polish women is that they are quite feminist-minded and self reliant, which would fit with having no reservations about masturbation. But I also remember reading here some comments saying that Polish girls are less likely to be single than say British ones, to the extent that they will steal other women's men if needs be. I half wondered whether that might be partly because of the thought that a woman should have a man and should not satisfy herself.
I don't think there's anything wrong with a woman not wanting to masturbate, but if it's in the culture of at least some Polish women, it would be useful to know about it.
A friend of mine recently broke up from a year-long relationship with a Polish girl. He says he is glad to be out of it because of what he describes as her 'sexual hang-ups' and is advising others around him (he's British, living in the UK) not to date Polish women, because of what he experienced. I suspect his ex was not typical, so would be interested to hear from people here whether or not he's right.
The basic problem as he describes it is that his ex had been brought up to believe that female masturbation is absolutely, horrifically immoral and must never be done. That would be fair enough, except that it was combined with a high sex drive and a belief that it was his job to meet her sexual needs, whenever they arose. So she would call him up saying she was horny and ask him to come round and sort her out. Even if he didn't feel like it, or had other things he needed to do (such as working or sleeping).
It's not as if she was a devout Catholic, because she had sex with him and had been with other men before, despite being unmarried. He says she just believed that women shouldn't touch themselves sexually, I think because she saw it as men's job to please women and a sign of failure if a woman does it herself.
When he first told me I thought he was mad, because my experience of Polish women is that they are quite feminist-minded and self reliant, which would fit with having no reservations about masturbation. But I also remember reading here some comments saying that Polish girls are less likely to be single than say British ones, to the extent that they will steal other women's men if needs be. I half wondered whether that might be partly because of the thought that a woman should have a man and should not satisfy herself.
I don't think there's anything wrong with a woman not wanting to masturbate, but if it's in the culture of at least some Polish women, it would be useful to know about it.