SOCI 3P51 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Real Sex, Orgasm, Female Sexual Arousal Disorder
13 Jan 2016
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Struggle for women"s sexual autonomy is not just about sexual pleasure & reproductive rights. Intersect with gender in gaining access basic services & protection from coercive medicalization, i. e. sterilization. The diagnosis of hysteria had an added benefit. Hysterics, ""were an economic godsend to medicine" as they formed ""a circle of "everlasting patients. " But there was a drawback too: physicians did not like performing genital massage. Their fingers got tired and they had difficulty sustaining ""treatment long enough to produce results"" Development of vibrators in late 1800s made doctors more efficient. Problem with this trailer is that it implies that women had a contemporary understanding of sex . Which is unlikely: instead, this history might help us to understand how sexual ideologies shift profoundly from one era to another. Intercourse as real sex" privileges men"s sexual pleasure (androcentric ideals still live!) Discourse that women sexually defective" if they don"t orgasm through intercourse normalizes:
