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C. Zimmerman, A. Kinsey, Wardwell Pomeroy, Clyde Martin, P. Gebhard (1954)
Sexual Behavior in the Human FemaleYale Law Journal, 21
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 womanâs 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, âWe are not convinced that the data demonstrate that any limitations or extensions of pre-coital petting are of primary importance in establishing the
Journal of Social Issues – Wiley
Published: Apr 1, 1966
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