* Please note, Ming wrote this response. She is awesome, but an actual writer, so do not be so easily swayed by her propogandaist style of writing. She was trained by exiled Soviet Islamists in Cuba. Ming also happens to like to dress up in leather and spank other chics on their bums with a whip. That's just plain hot.

In response to and in search of the double standard
In response, I have to point out that a double standard means expecting something different from two people who are capable of the same thing. Therefore, in a romantic situation, if society expects both men and women to identify romantically with one another in certain situations, that's really a single standard. With the second example it makes sense, women are expected to be chaste, but not men--so greater opportunity is given to men to be promiscuous.

To make the double standard make sense you have to explain in the beginning what the double standard is, how is it that something different is expected of one of them. As it stands, it seems to me that the same thing is expected of both of them, get mushy and romantic, and go have sex later. The sex is implied. Ads use the power of suggestion because it would be inappropriate not to and because it's more powerfully mentally than any lewd TV image could be. You’re saying the reason they don't show the boner is that men are held to a double standard, but i don't really think that's why. They're not going to show the woman pinching her left one and going down her pants either.

Truly, there is a certain amount of marketing that goes into your sex appeal in real life, as well as advertisements. If a guy says he’s “popping a boner,” then it either sounds like he’s an adolescent 15 year old or like he’s talking down to his female counterpart, like she’s expected to automatically do something about it. It could be seen as demeaning or gross. But, on the other hand, if a girl is actually out with her date or her boyfriend; and they're being romantic; and he says he's hard, then she might equally be into it and want to go fuck his brains out. The hard-on would only be gross if she didn't like him and want his cock, although admittedly talking about a hard-on as “popping a boner” (not the hard-on itself) could be a turn-off. Either way, the guy wouldn’t be gross because of his boner, rather because he was a gross human being to the girl.

In a truly romantic situation, a hard-on isn’t generally held against the male by his female counterpart. The girl is more likely to be turned on as well and be excited by her male counterpart’s hard cock. Rather, the boner that might be seen as “gross” is the one that happens without stimulus at the wrong time. It is his nature that is held against him in this instance, true. But it would be equally embarrassing if a girl farted and wasn't in the bathroom. That isn’t a double standard either. Then again, more than gross, society thinks these natural mishaps are funny. On a side note, it would be interesting to unpack why when a man does something sexually inappropriate or unwittingly demeaning to their female counterparts or in a crowded room, generally laughter and hilarity is known to ensue. What does that laughter indicate about our society? At what and at whom are we laughing? On one hand, fart and dick laughs might be all about healthy laughing at our natural selves. On the other, it could indicate some rather sinister things about how we esteem ourselves and gender differences.

To get back on the immediate subject, if a girl is particularly “prude” or “uptight” in a romantic situation and she doesn’t find her male counterpart adolescent or disgusting, then she is probably herself a victim of the double standard that men are allowed to be sexual and women are not---most likely as dictated by her family and cultural values. But that has to do with a society or individual family that has bred these women to be afraid of their sexuality because of double standard number two, not because chicks don't dig dick if they're straight and not because women are somehow allowed to express their “prudish romantic sensibility” while men are not allowed to express their “horny physical sensibility”. On the contrary, the male, by getting physically active is doing exactly what society accepts that he do. The double standard there is that men are allowed to express themselves sexually while women aren’t.

In conclusion, I believe that your theory that men are allowed a lesser opportunity to naturally express themselves than women are, granting greater personal liberty to women than to men is utterly unproven. Men are already granted greater liberty to be more physical and horny as a result of the accepted double standard that men are allowed greater sexual freedom than women. I think you would do better to explain how the fact (?) that a male's natural reactions are generally different than females has helped to create and maintain the double standard that exists in society today that allows men greater physical/sexual liberty than women.