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Why was Beth such a huge slut?


She banged men, women, had group sex, fooled around with the US chess champions, she basically slept her way to the top, I'm surprised she didn't try something with that Russian chess master, this behavior was kinda weird and incongruent with the rest of her personality, what's going on here?

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How did sleeping with anyone facilitate making it to the top of chess world? Her position as a grandmaster was due solely to her chess playing ability

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She stole their secrets...

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They're not secrets when the games are published, move by move, in books and chess magazines.

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She had issues, with alcoholism being another one of them.

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liberals injecting their value system into historical dramas to normalize slut behavior for the next generation

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historical dramas? LOL.

Yeah, because there were NO alcoholics or people with loose morals before 2022. Makes sense ...

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If you look at the women chess players from that era, most of them were rather unattractive, nerdy, stiff, with no sense of fashion, they send a strong asexual vibe, I really doubt they had loose morals.

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Well, good thing this is not a historical drama.

Given her background it's understandable why she was like that.

Btw: "she basically slept her way to the top," - she didn't. The matches she won she won due to her mind.

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This was a work of fiction with a slight bit of revisionist history. The only real characters were the chess masters of the past that were referred to by the fictional cast.

Her self destructive alcohol and drug abuse was far more alarming then her sexual activity. Beth did not contract an STD or get pregnant, but her drug and alcohol abuse was far more likely to ruin her life than sex.

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Promiscuous sex is a liberal notion? That is a laugh! Promiscuous sex is common across the entire political spectrum.

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not since the last 20+ years since the AIDS epidemic

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Well, I disagree with you.

Edited to add; Well known conservatives such as Trump brag about their sexual proclivity. Sexual promiscuity knows no political, religious, financial or ethnic boundaries.

The AIDS epidemic was recognized as an epidemic in 1981. The first human HIV infection was dated back to 1959.

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the beauty of America

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