women and sexuality
(Part 1) As mentioned in Hilary Howard’s 2011 New York Times article, “Vibrators Carry the Conversation,” vibrators can now be purchased at mainstream drugstores. Despite the accessibility of vibrators and other sex toys, open discussion of women’s orgasms and sexual pleasure is rare. Why might this still be the case? How might this relate to the medicalization of women’s sexuality, as discussed in this unit’s lectures and articles? Please find an example of women’ sexual pleasure in the media and discuss how it opens the conversation on this topic.
Howard, Hilary. (2011). Vibrators Carry the Conversation. New York Times, April 21, 2011: E1
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In today’s world, women are not embarrassed when people discover they either purchase or own vibrators as they were several years ago and this is so because even the existence of shops selling vibrators and other sex toys have risen over the years (Howard, 2011). Though it is not a secret that women use sex toys, the discussion of women’s orgasms and sexual pleasures is…
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