So I'm going to Greece for one week, and then Italy for the second week for my Spring Break 2018 trip. I've been saving up for this since I was junior in high school. Anyways.

I was doing some reading on the culture there, specifically the current social culture. I realize the internet isn't totally accurate etc, and I won't really know till I go to those places.

Anyways, when I was reading about Greece, I had read some interesting things on the Grecian views on love, sex, feminism etc. What I read said that in Greece, they are very sex positive, and love everything feminine, but they hate the woman. And that the Madonna-Whore complex is dirk very huge there.

That it's 100% okay to be a young woman and sleep around a lot and party etc, however, you aren't the marrying type if you do that. (But of course men can do this and still be the marrying type 🤦🏻‍♀️).

That it's still very cultural there that the type of girls a man settles down with and marries, is the Madonna type of woman, the good girl, the virgin, the pure one.

HOWEVER, what I read went on to talk about deep social issues there (it was a blog post from a student who spent a school year there). That it's a belief that love is the death of desire, and desire the death of love.

So basically you love the Madonna, but you don't desire her.

And that you desire the Whore, but don't love her.

And then she went on to talk about the cheating culture there with Grecian men, and how important family is in their culture, especially the bonds between mothers and their sons and how it's totally normally in Greece (and later I learned Italy) for men to live with their mothers until they are married. And that mothers have a big influence and control on their sons lives even if they're well into their 30s.

SO ANYWAYS.

TL;DR (too long didn't read)

How do you guys feel about the Madonna-Whore complex? That men love Madonnas but don't feel desire for them (why affairs seems so prevalent in marriages etc type thing), and that men desire Whores, but don't/can't love them (why men seem to have a hard time settling down with a girl who sleeps around a lot).

If you want to know more about the Madonna-Whore complex I suggest googling it so you can better discuss it.