Pootertoot
04-17-2002, 10:40 AM
<A HREF=http://www.dailytrojan.com/article.do?issue=/V145/N60&id=01-womne.60v.html>Well, duh.</A> If only to stop bitching that we masturbate too much.
Taken from "The Daily Trojan":
All women must learn to pleasure themselves
Edward Smith | Daily Trojan
Female orgasms. The toe-curling, back-scratching, wake-the-neighbors type of excitement that even the girliest girls want to unleash. The passion that every man wants to see in the face of his lover. The envy all the neighbors have when the offending couple exits their thin-walled room.
Sounds like a dream, doesn't it? For all too many women, the scenario is a dream. But who says you need another person to reach that orgasmic peak? After Viagra hit the market with a bang a few years ago, women around the country have been clamoring at pharmaceutical companies to produce a pill to aid their orgasms, too.
From electrodes in the spine to a handheld vacuum pump placed over the clitoris to hypnosis, science has made a virtual torture chamber of devices to "cure" whatever presumed physical problem females might have reaching pleasure.
Women's pleasure has become a highly profitable industry. From vibrators to how-to manuals, eager-to-please boyfriends and happier girls have given millions to those who profit by trying to make females orgasm a little easier. Like the rest of our problems, Americans would love to find the simple, cure-all for the difficulty that many women (up to 50 percent, according to some studies) experience trying to get in touch with their base chakra.
Dr. Stuart Meloy, a North Carolina surgeon, discovered that his female patients experienced orgasms after he implanted an electrode in their backs trying to alleviate their chronic back pains, according to wired.com. The device is about the size of a pack of cigarettes and is implanted under the skin of the buttocks. Like a remote control, each time the patient presses the electrode button, she orgasms.
While Dr. Meloy was testing his new device, one of his patients quipped, "You'll have to teach my husband how to do that."
Unfortunately, her comment seems to speak to the terrible truth behind many women's inability to orgasm with their partners. Many men simply don't know how to please a woman, but more terrifying is that many women don't know how to please themselves. Why couldn't Dr. Meloy's patient teach her own husband how to give her orgasms?
In much of our nation, masturbation is a subject rarely spoken of. That's why from 1997 to 2002, nearly $500 million federal dollars will have been spent on abstinence-only education programs, which certainly don't include any more information on solo sex than they do on promiscuity. If masturbation is mentioned, it's almost always in the context of male orgasm, especially during those awkward adolescent years when no one wants to admit that they know how to fly solo.
Enter the pesky problem. Some girls have no problem exploring their bodies and figuring out how everything works. These women don't need clitoral pumps, or electrode implants. They've got time to experiment and learn what works and what plainly doesn't.
It's the women who never bothered to learn how to orgasm by themselves who often have the most problems down the road. How can you reach orgasm with a partner if you've never taken yourself there?
Every sex manual on earth advises women to do the exact same thing, "reach out and touch yourself." But somehow, that just doesn't seem so great for women who were raised with the expectation that Prince Charming would ride up on his white steed and everyone would live happily ever after.
Some women expect men to intrinsically know how to provide nights of screaming pleasure * la James Bond. Unfortunately, the bedroom isn't a movie studio, and the average woman can't expect to be satisfied in 30 seconds. We're not men, after all.
Women need to take more responsibility for their own sex lives and stop living in a fairy tale world where a man can solve all of a woman's problems. Women need to take cont
Taken from "The Daily Trojan":
All women must learn to pleasure themselves
Edward Smith | Daily Trojan
Female orgasms. The toe-curling, back-scratching, wake-the-neighbors type of excitement that even the girliest girls want to unleash. The passion that every man wants to see in the face of his lover. The envy all the neighbors have when the offending couple exits their thin-walled room.
Sounds like a dream, doesn't it? For all too many women, the scenario is a dream. But who says you need another person to reach that orgasmic peak? After Viagra hit the market with a bang a few years ago, women around the country have been clamoring at pharmaceutical companies to produce a pill to aid their orgasms, too.
From electrodes in the spine to a handheld vacuum pump placed over the clitoris to hypnosis, science has made a virtual torture chamber of devices to "cure" whatever presumed physical problem females might have reaching pleasure.
Women's pleasure has become a highly profitable industry. From vibrators to how-to manuals, eager-to-please boyfriends and happier girls have given millions to those who profit by trying to make females orgasm a little easier. Like the rest of our problems, Americans would love to find the simple, cure-all for the difficulty that many women (up to 50 percent, according to some studies) experience trying to get in touch with their base chakra.
Dr. Stuart Meloy, a North Carolina surgeon, discovered that his female patients experienced orgasms after he implanted an electrode in their backs trying to alleviate their chronic back pains, according to wired.com. The device is about the size of a pack of cigarettes and is implanted under the skin of the buttocks. Like a remote control, each time the patient presses the electrode button, she orgasms.
While Dr. Meloy was testing his new device, one of his patients quipped, "You'll have to teach my husband how to do that."
Unfortunately, her comment seems to speak to the terrible truth behind many women's inability to orgasm with their partners. Many men simply don't know how to please a woman, but more terrifying is that many women don't know how to please themselves. Why couldn't Dr. Meloy's patient teach her own husband how to give her orgasms?
In much of our nation, masturbation is a subject rarely spoken of. That's why from 1997 to 2002, nearly $500 million federal dollars will have been spent on abstinence-only education programs, which certainly don't include any more information on solo sex than they do on promiscuity. If masturbation is mentioned, it's almost always in the context of male orgasm, especially during those awkward adolescent years when no one wants to admit that they know how to fly solo.
Enter the pesky problem. Some girls have no problem exploring their bodies and figuring out how everything works. These women don't need clitoral pumps, or electrode implants. They've got time to experiment and learn what works and what plainly doesn't.
It's the women who never bothered to learn how to orgasm by themselves who often have the most problems down the road. How can you reach orgasm with a partner if you've never taken yourself there?
Every sex manual on earth advises women to do the exact same thing, "reach out and touch yourself." But somehow, that just doesn't seem so great for women who were raised with the expectation that Prince Charming would ride up on his white steed and everyone would live happily ever after.
Some women expect men to intrinsically know how to provide nights of screaming pleasure * la James Bond. Unfortunately, the bedroom isn't a movie studio, and the average woman can't expect to be satisfied in 30 seconds. We're not men, after all.
Women need to take more responsibility for their own sex lives and stop living in a fairy tale world where a man can solve all of a woman's problems. Women need to take cont