What “The Orgasm Gap” Is Really Saying
It’s not the rosiest picture around conventional gender roles.
The screenshot associated with this post is from this article:
There is a lot to unpack here, but I will try to keep it as succinct as possible.
- I think there has been a narrative for a long time that either (1) women don’t like sex, (2) women become less interested in sex once they get kids, and (3) female orgasm is complicated. I don’t actually think any of those are completely true. They are true for thousands to millions of females, but it’s hard to generalize about 4 billion women. I know some women that shut it down after Kid №2 is Earth-side, and I know some who purport to be sexually-active well into their 50s and 60s. So part of all this is flawed narratives about women, who they are, who they are as sexual beings, and what they want from their life and intimate experiences.
- Since being in my own infertility shame spiral for a number of years, one thing I’ve thought about a decent amount is the semantics and vocabulary around…
