loose women
Women of relaxed morals
Loose women are women perceived as sexually promiscuous or morally lax.
The phrase is old-fashioned and judgmental, reflecting traditional expectations of female chastity: He warned his son to stay away from loose women.
The singular loose woman carries the same meaning.
Like many terms policing female sexuality, it has no true male equivalent in common use.
- promiscuityFrequent casual sexual encounters
- courtesanPaid aristocratic companion
- lady of the nightSells sexual services
- harlotPromiscuous woman for pay
- double standardUnequally applied moral code
moral panic · virtue · femininity · agency · jezebel · stigma · sexual liberation · libertine · concubine · patriarchy · femme fatale · good time girl · archetype · sin · objectification · shame · walk of shame · reputation
loose womenvirgins
Sexually uninitiated people
celibates · prudes · vestal virgins · nuns · maidens
loose womenladies
Women, respectfully addressed
gentlewomen · society ladies · pillars of the community · matrons
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