Madonna/whore complex

plural Madonna/whore complexes

1. alternativeAlternative form of Madonna-whore complex.

   The Madonna/whore complex casts a wide influential net that can convince many (women especially) that they “can’t” or “shouldn’t” be both mothers and sexual partners.

   2019 November 7, Yana-Tallon Hicks, “The V-Spot: Keeping The Oven Hot When There’s a Bun In it”, in Valley Advocate, page 22

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   It comes as a slight shock to me that men still have such Madonna/whore complexes. If you sleep with them, you are shunted into the “good-time girl” category, and that means a lot of last-minute text messages looking for sex.

   2011, Kiri Blakeley, chapter 35, in Can’t Think Straight: A Memoir of Mixed-Up Love, Citadel Press, →ISBN

   Priya’s parents’ Hinduism seemed to present conflicting views of sex: […] What people don’t know about the Kama Sutra is that it’s actually a text that … very heavily caters to Madonna/whore complexes. That it’s actually quite misogynistic. And that it’s actually catered more for male pleasure and … males always will have the upper hand according to the Kama Sutra.

   2020, Pamela Dickey Young, Heather Shipley, “Emerging-Adult Opinions on Religion and Sexuality”, in Identities Under Construction: Religion, Gender, and Sexuality among Youth in Canada, McGill-Queen’s University Press, →ISBN, pages 59–60