What Makes A Whore.

What is up, Readers?

Quick question:
What do you call a woman that enjoys sex with multiple partners?
A philanderer? Harlot? Floozy?
(shout outs to the Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, by the way)

Yesterday morning, the GirlSpeak 2010 editorial board had an in-depth discussion regarding the definition of a word that's been carelessly tossed about among many; without full comprehension of what it means exactly.
Whore.

What makes a whore?
Does she dress like one? Does she fool around with her friend's ex-boyfriends? With strangers? Is she a famous character among a group of guys?
Essentially, the decision has been up to you this whole time, Reader.
But as we all know, a whore (also known as a prostitute) is a woman paid to have sex.
Personally, I've never sold my body for a dollar bill in any of my 15 years of living, & yet I've been called a whore on more occasions than I'm willing to share.

Sure, I'm a fairly flirtatious individual. & yes, I've been known to sport more cleavage than neccessary, sometimes. But by what means does that make me a whore?
I think somewhere along the way, probably between the catty girltalks & excessive reruns of Mean Girls on TBS, society rewrote the definition & ran with it.

During yesterday morning's discussion, a "whore" in my eyes was a woman that would compromise herself for the sake of a man's pleasure; a more vague variation of the actual translation.
The other editors' descriptions of "whore" were things like,
someone that has sex with someone she doesn't know and someone that has sex with people that know eachother & eventually, we had to dig into what makes a "sex partner" a "sex partner you know".. and, quite frankly, I walked away fuzzy-headed & educated.

Readers, sex partners we know are sex partners that know us.
They know what we want because they care to know. & we, as women, are comfortable with asking them questions to ensure our comfort. Sex is sheer intimacy at its finest, & the sex partners we know treat it as such.

And so, apparently, this factor (alongside a few others) draws the line between a "whore" and a "sexually liberated woman".
SLWs enjoy sex with multiple partners, much like the whore, but not nearly with the same footnote.
The SLW is comfortable with her sexuality & carries her own best interest at heart.
She wants to please herself & her sexual partners, of which she is selective. She understands the strength in intimacy during sex.
She may not be seen as the classiest woman in the world, but she isn't spreading her legs for cash, mind you.

The moral of the story, Readers?
Be an SLW or be a virgin (:
& know a whore before you call her one.

-O.G. Kush