Waking Sleeping Beauty By Alfred Kinsey: Article Analysis

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It was long thought that the only way for a woman to orgasm was through vagin0al penetration. This was mostly due to lack of proper on the complex workings of the female anatomy. It wasn’t until 1953, when Alfred Kinsey published Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, that the clitoris was looked at as the center of female sexual pleasure. Carolyn Herbst Lewis, in her article “Waking Sleeping Beauty: The Premarital Pelvic Exam and Heterosexuality during the Cold War,” helps to show how Kinsey’s publication wasn’t taken seriously in the 1950’s and 60’s. She explains that the thought process during that time was that the vaginal orgasm was linked to stable marriages and a secure community while the clitoral orgasm was degraded into being the orgasm of an adolescent. This mindset is directly correlated with the male belief that their pleasure is above that of woman’s. The reality is that only 30% of women can achieve orgasm without clitoral stimulation. Men only need penetration and the fact a women may need more does not concern most of them. In porn this is painstakingly clear.
Most porn consists of beating a woman’s most sensitive spots with a penis after roughly one minute of foreplay, which appears to give women earth shattering …show more content…

For example, a commonly used position is to have the woman on her knees and to have the man ejaculate on to her face or in her mouth.
Porn lies to us. It shows over exaggerated sexual acts; little, but over intense, clitoral stimulation; and a view of women that is intensely patriarchal. Porn loves to show horny women who need no build up to sex and orgasm. Porn makes it seem as though all a female porn character needs to get horny is a terrible pick up and a decent looking

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