Joy Behar questioned just how many orgasms a girl can “fake” when being part of an “ethically non-monogamous” relationship.
Behar and the rest of “The View” women discussed how more and more people have been “engaging in so-called ethical non-monogamy” — which is an arrangement where people have multiple consensual romantic, sexual, and/or intimate connections — during Tuesday’s taping of the hit daytime talk show.
Yet when Whoopi Goldberg —who clearly wasn’t a fan of the topic — asked her co-hosts if they would be “open” to dating several people at the same time, the 81-year-old joked that men would have to get better in the bedroom for it to become more mainstream.
“They’re talking about not just one person extra in the bed, they’re talking about a few,” Behar said, noting that people in the U.S. are “too puritanical” to ever get behind that idea.
“I mean, Janet Jackson’s boob popped out and the country went bananas,” she joked, referencing the 2004 SuperBowl halftime show where Justin Timberlake exposed Jackson’s right breast. “How many orgasms can one girl fake?”
Her surprising comment caught her co-hosts slightly off guard as they buckled over in laughter. However, they all seemed to agree with Behar’s opinion.
In fact, Sara Haines joked that the concept must have been concocted by a man who just wanted to sleep around without repercussions.
“I know this applies to women and men but when you read that ‘ethical non-monogamy’ weren’t you sitting there going, ‘a man definitely decided this,'” she said, mimicking, “‘I’m not going to be monogamous but it’s a good thing and we are fine. It’s ethical.'”
Meanwhile, Sunny Hostin noted that the people who seek out non-monogamous relationships must be “more evolved” than her.
“I’m more cavewoman in my relationships, like, ‘You are mine!'” she explained. “But what I don’t understand is some of these people are married, have children and have jobs, [so] how do you have the time to do that with, let alone one man, several men or women?”
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Similarly, Alyssa Farah Griffin questioned why people opt to be in multiple relationships rather than just “be single” if they “want to sleep with a lot of people.”
However, Behar — who is married to Steve Janowitz — argued that there is “more to marriage than sex.”
“In fact, where is the sex these days?” she joked. “It’s mostly about cleaning the house, visiting in-laws and balancing the budget.”
While almost all of the women agreed that one person in the relationship would always be slightly “jealous,” Goldberg combatted their assumption that it only happens in small towns where people are bored.
“You guys have to widen your arena of people that you know,” she said. “Because it’s not just sleepy little towns … listen if you can do more than one thing at a time then you can have a polyamorous relationship.”
“If you can chew gum and walk then you can do more than one person.”
