24. Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm, Anne Koedt

• Freud, father of the vaginal orgasm, decided clitoral orgasm was adolescent, women should mature to vaginal orgasm upon puberty. Freud's patronizing/ fearful attitude towards women; psychoanalsis resigns them to the limits of their sexuality
• "frigidity" attributed to women's inability to adjust to her natural role; anti-male phenomenon
• severest damage not done in "corrective" surgery but mentally, self-blame
• clitoris is the equivalent of the penis, erectile tissue, purpose is sexual pleasure
• vagina's functions are reproductive, tissue is similar to digestive tract
• women who claim vaginal orgasm my be confused as to the center of the orgasm, or else "faking it"
• men fear the clitoris as a threat to masculinity, fear becoming sexually expendible if clitoris sub'd for vagina as center of pleasure
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