Unculinary Sunday post
No cooking, between traveling yesterday and speaking at An Event today (I will make bread tomorrow).
So have me being grumpy about this article and wondering what list that was of 'sexologists' that included so few women? I suspect that it was very US-focused, and thus would not include such pioneers as Stella Browne, Marie Stopes, Helena Wright, Joan Malleson, and others I included in The Anthology, but no Katharine Bement Davies or Lura Beam? (with a little thought and digging I could probably name others - indeed, if we are talking about anthropologists working on female sexuality, wot abaht the - unfairly discredited - Margaret Mead???).
And when was the vibrator revolution, if women in their 40s and 50s missed it???
While I concede that there may be long-term relationships in which 'women get bored with one partner' - and we feel that this may be to do with the particular one partner rather than the absolute number and that is why the drop, or maybe there are other factors, besides inadequate technique, like inequity in attending to household tasks and emotional labour, could it possibly be - I feel this is yet another of those pieces which uncritically values the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue over the deep deep peace of the double bed. This entry was originally posted at https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2831032.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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