score

the concept of scoring (a man "getting" or "having" a woman sexually) underlies much that is skewed with female-male relations. Thinking of a woman in this way makes her a notch on the bedpost; she is certainly not a partner in any meaningful sense. Lack of mutuality underlies a "score" ("Man is the hunter; woman is his game," wrote Alfred Lord Tennyson in The Princess). "Score" is also an inclusive term for the client of either sex of a male or female prostitute. See also lay/easy lay/good lay, sex object, sexual conquest.