Female Clitoral Orgasms: Improving Human Sexuality with Increased Discourse
by This paper presents the idea that male orgasms are often publicly discussed and viewed as normative, whereas female clitoral orgasms have the potential to be easily misrepresented by media outlets and research.
There are challenges to including clitoral orgasm in sexual education programs. Today, some academic institutions with religious affiliations consider conflicts about human sexuality and opt not to include the subject in curricula. In 2007 and 2008, some states made the sale of vibrators illegal: an illustration on some of the restrictions placed on female sexuality. Until equal grounds for sexual pleasure are reached, like availability of information and eradication of taboos around female pleasure, then laws like this one will continue to cause prejudice views. Sexual education about female orgasm is one solution to the missing discourse. I also enjoyed hearing about Michelle Fine’s book in class lecture, The Missing Discourse of Desire, which discusses the need for improved education about women wanting to say yes to sex and pleasure. What if a woman wants to say yes to sex? How can the public better understand how to be safe, but also how to liberate misinformed views about female desire? Allowing for female sexual pleasure to be in the limelight would benefit the public, because as Sigmund Freud professes, sexuality is a central and important part of all human being’s lives. Understanding the entire scope of pleasure between man and woman, and not solely focusing on intercourse will further the subject of human sexuality, and will help people in their sexual lives.
Greenberg, Jerrold S., Clint E. Bruess, and Sarah C. Conklin. Exploring the Dimensions of
Human Sexuality. 3rd ed. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2007.
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Post Commentthestickman
On April 29, 2009 at 2:11 pm
A very well researched and document article. Thank you for sharing this.
Joshua Cherub Doughan
On May 28, 2009 at 5:36 pm
It is a good piece for discussion in various institutions and departments of human education and improvement.However more wholistic research is needed in this direction. This is because the issue of human sexuality and female orgasm neede to consider all possible areas of such research and discussion.
celine
On November 11, 2009 at 2:02 am
this paper doesnt consider all possible areas of research- for example ancient history and sexual texts regarding female pleasure such as the kama sutra. i think i just wrote this for a class that was informed by a western anglo perspective, anyway, this paper does present an idea that places an emphasis on orgasm in sexual relations among partners, but it is bias. i could also have researched texts that place emphasis on female orgasm. obviously i didnt do that. so it\’s bias because i think that there is not emphasis in departmental education and media outlets about female orgasms. and the whole thing i said about sexuality being a new topic, NEW as in, when did sexuality become categorized as a topic, and when did it become new, because isnt that how each person was formed. NEW. ha.
what this paper is- its a reinterpretation of the themes i was given to understand more of in my sexuality class that studied sexuality as defined a \”subject that became popular with freud\’s research,\” and \”solidified it\’s place in modern historical culture with the published research of Master\’s and Johnson.\”
sexuality as a subject.
all i have left to say is, WWJD.
f.ers.
i should have taken a history class. her as the femmebots say, hystory. herstory. what weirds.
collectorofarticles
On November 3, 2010 at 8:05 am
I am collecting article links about orgasm. This goes to my Articles Museum. Hope you don’t mind.