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Factors in Marital Orgasm

Factors in Marital Orgasm Background From the Victorian middle and upper class unconcern with female orgasm, we have, through the emancipation of women and the emergence of sex as a discussable subject, reached a point of intense concern with orgasm. It has become to no small degree a symbol of woman’s being accepted as a human of equal stature and with her own sexual needs. Orgasm in marital coitus has become not only her goal but her due, and inability to achieve it frequently engenders feelings of personal inadequacy and failure in both the husband and wife. The pendulum has swung from unconcern to overconcern in less than a century. In our culture, enchanted with technology and with a mechanistic conception of the body, the emphasis on female orgasm has produced a veritable flood of marriage manuals and similar publications which say, in essence, that the key to female orgasm is in the length of precoital foreplay and the duration of penile intromission once coitus has begun. Reacting against this preoccupation with foreplay and intrornission Kinsey (1953:364) (l,p.364) stated, “We are not convinced that the data demonstrate that any limitations or extensions of pre-coital petting are of primary importance in establishing the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Social Issues Wiley

Factors in Marital Orgasm

Journal of Social Issues , Volume 22 (2) – Apr 1, 1966

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
1966 The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
ISSN
0022-4537
eISSN
1540-4560
DOI
10.1111/j.1540-4560.1966.tb00537.x
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Abstract

Background From the Victorian middle and upper class unconcern with female orgasm, we have, through the emancipation of women and the emergence of sex as a discussable subject, reached a point of intense concern with orgasm. It has become to no small degree a symbol of woman’s being accepted as a human of equal stature and with her own sexual needs. Orgasm in marital coitus has become not only her goal but her due, and inability to achieve it frequently engenders feelings of personal inadequacy and failure in both the husband and wife. The pendulum has swung from unconcern to overconcern in less than a century. In our culture, enchanted with technology and with a mechanistic conception of the body, the emphasis on female orgasm has produced a veritable flood of marriage manuals and similar publications which say, in essence, that the key to female orgasm is in the length of precoital foreplay and the duration of penile intromission once coitus has begun. Reacting against this preoccupation with foreplay and intrornission Kinsey (1953:364) (l,p.364) stated, “We are not convinced that the data demonstrate that any limitations or extensions of pre-coital petting are of primary importance in establishing the

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Journal of Social IssuesWiley

Published: Apr 1, 1966

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