It's baaaaack
Yes, it's the return of No Nut November as reported here last year, though apparently some voices are crying that it should be cancelled for pandemic reasons.
Though I suspect that the overlap between the kind of bloke who does this because Manly Challenge and Increase in Macho Powers and the ones who refuse to wear masks because those compromise their masculinity is pretty much complete?
We turn from the contemplation of this distasteful subject, to the topic of the silence over the clitoris: Medical textbooks are full of anatomical pictures of the penis, but the clitoris barely rates a mention. Many medical professionals are uncomfortable even talking about it: In the 20 years since [Helen O'Connell's] groundbreaking study was released, clitoral anatomy remains largely absent from the medical curriculum and from medical research. A literature review conducted by O’Connell’s team for her editorial in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology found just 11 articles on anatomical dissection of the clitoris had been published worldwide since 1947. Hundreds more mentioned clitoral anatomy only as it related to procedures to restore sensation following a cliteradectomy, or female genital mutilation. Despite that work, O’Connell wrote, “we see literature doubting the importance of female orgasm, entertaining the argument that from an evolutionary standpoint, female orgasm could merely be a byproduct of selection on male orgasm”.
(Though, honestly, the preconceptions and stereotyping here: With her neat glasses and dry, technical language, O’Connell does not appear the rebel. But then she talks, quite calmly, about subjects that would make many of her peers blush, and the rebel slips out.
Siiiiigh. )
I fancy that this book - just out I think - is perhaps working in related areas: Alyson K Spurgas, Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty-First Century: Spurgas makes the case that, together, all of these technologies create a “feminized responsive desire framework” for understanding women’s sexuality, and that this, in fact, produces women’s sexuality as a complex problem to be solved.
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