02.10.2015 в 22:59
Пишет Св.:Prior to the Enlightenment, the existence and necessity of female sexual pleasure for successful reproduction was a common conception in Western thought. This perspective was grounded in the belief that women’s bodies were simply a variation on the male template, such that women had the same reproductive organs as men, only on the inside rather than the outside of their bodies (Laqueur, 1990). It was believed that both women and men had to be sexually aroused and had to experience sexual pleasure in order for conception to occur. One author writing in the 17th century recommended preparing women for “successful” sexual intercourse with lascivious words, wanton behavior, “all kinde of dalliance,” and ‘‘handl[ing] of her secret parts and dugs, that she may take fire and be enflamed in venery” (Laqueur, 1990, p. 102). Women’s sexual desire was understood not only as normal and necessary but as the very counterpoint to the pain of childbirth that kept the human race going.
URL записи(Tolman, Diamond, "Desegregating sexuality research: cultural and biological perspectives on gender and desire", 2001)