Women masturbation
The Golden Girls were chronic masturbators.
All right, maybe there???s no definitive evidence, but it’s certainly plausible. Masturbation is a healthy practice, with countless benefits like stress reduction and skin rejuvenation but female masturbation is still a hush-hush topic.
Ph.D. sexologist Betty Dodson said that the taboo nature of female masturbation, and its awkwardness, goes hand-in-hand with sexism. From holding New York City’s first erotic art exhibition in 1968 to 23 years of Bodysex groups where women learn about orgasms and how to see their genitals as beautiful Dodson has been a pioneer in the sex-positive feminist movement for the past 40 years.
Due to sexual repression and the double standard, women are supposed to be fulfilled by intercourse alone, Dodson said.
Like Dodson, modern sex activists are adopting a feminist stance in the current sexual revolution: encouraging women to empower themselves through masturbation.
Like a Virgin
Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud said that the libido is the single most important motivating force in life, yet most sexual education focuses on precaution and leaves gratification out of the dialogue.
[Current education] is about how to help you learn the basics to prevent pregnancy and prevent sexually transmitted conditions, but not necessarily as a precursor to the kind of pleasure that adults in intimate relationships can have with each other, Ph.D. sexologist Carol Queen said.
She believes that society goes mum when it comes to the topic of masturbation because it is considered inappropriate to talk about.
There’s a silence around it and the silence speaks volumes, she said. It carries its own message.
In 1998, Heather Corinna founded the first young adult sex education Web site, Scarleteen.com, the no-spin zone of adolescent sexuality.
The site, which receives over 100,000 hits per day, unabashedly covers a variety of topics including homophobia, sexual abuse and sexually transmitted infections.
Corinna described what she sees as a common attitude among girls toward sex.
One thing we see that’s troubling, at Scarleteen, is a lot of girls will kind of walk into their sexual life, and the first thing on the table is that someone is going to take their virginity, Corinna said. It’s take’ or I’???m gonna give them. It’s always passive.
She explained that this submissive type of language implies that the women are not in control of their own bodies, turning an act of connection and joy into one of obedience and passivity.
A lot of girls won’t masturbate before they have a partner, and so they’ll kind of walk into these relationships with this dynamic that the partner is the person that teaches them about their sexuality, Corinna said.
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