Woman as the passive player in sex

The following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Question: Why are females silent players in sex in this society? Why do they spend their life as deaf, blind, and dumb in the matter of sex? Why does the society make them like this?

Acharya Prashant: What is the society? The society is what you and me are. If you and me are exploitative, the society too will be exploitative.

Man keeps on fantasizing about sex as the ultimate remedy to his mental chaos. And to get this remedy, he must have the woman’s body.

To ensure that the woman’s body is always available, the man must keep the woman in bondage. Otherwise, she may or may not acquiesce.

Is it not very straightforward? Is it not all in line with the ancient pattern of the ego? What is surprising about this?

But what you are not seeing is that, just as the man wants to enslave the woman, because the ego is hungry for satiation, and being hungry it cannot let go of its promised food. Similarly, the woman too wants to hold the man captive. Their ways are different.

The man may use physical force, the woman would use the force of the emotion. And if the woman is powerful in some other ways, she will use that power.