The Female Orgasm.

Yvonne Roberts on the female orgasm:

Spector’s research is
undoubtedly impeccable, but what kind of study is able definitively to
disentangle biology from social construction?

Umm, that would be science dear. Even, a carefully designed series of experiments and measurements deliberately designed to separate out the two different effects. Something, in fact, like this:

Spector’s team used a
national register of twins to ask 4,037 women about their sex lives and
to compare their DNA. Half were identical twins who share genes.

Just a thought, but do you think she actually reads the articles she writes?

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2 responses

  1. Erm, what is half of 4,037 people? Pedantic I know, just couldn’t resist. 🙂

  2. Her general point is that the orgasm has become something we should strive for in the eyes of society and in striving it has become a lot less fun. Hence gross commercialism. Which doesn’t really have anything to do with the study does it?
    She blithely uses the phrase “history of sexuality” which suggests that she has read her Foucault, which means she should know better than to engage in public discourse about what defines sex and sexuality, which is the truly repressive act. According to Foucault anyway. Who was a bit screwy.

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