female sexuality

The Independent has confirmed what we all know is true: women are asserting their sexuality and having sex for pleasure as Betty envisioned back at NOW's Sexuality Conference in 1973.  My favorite line:

"If we continue to be shocked by women going to sex parties, or using vibrators, then we are doing the female population a disservice."

Thank you, Richard, for the link:

Paloma lives in the basement of a tall, regal-looking building on a smart street in west London. Hers is a spacious studio flat with a neat patio area, just big enough for a potted herb garden and wrought-iron table with matching chairs.

Dodson and Ross answer this age old question. And if you haven't yet read The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm.  

We have to connect with this woman.  Muslim and American women are suffering from the same lack of sex information, body image issues, and systemic control of our sexuality.  Talk about bravery:

WEDAD LOOTAH does not look like a sexual activist. A Muslim and a native Emirati, she wears a full-length black niqab - with only her brown eyes showing through narrow slits - and sprinkles her conversation with quotes from the Koran.

Yet she is also the author of what for the Middle East is an amazingly frank new book of erotic advice in which she celebrates the female orgasm, confronts taboo topics like homosexuality and urges Arabs to transcend the backward traditions that limit their sexual happiness.

We got back from our conference to a stack of Ask Dr Betty questions about how to have a vaginal orgasm. Betty's been answering this same question since 1968. It's all clit all the time whether its direct or indirect. And Betty found Anne Koedt's original thesis The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm.

The NY Times Magazine Section (March 13, 2009) had an article titled The Pleasure Principle about a co-ed live-in commune dedicated to the female orgasm in San Francisco called "One Taste." It's founder Nicole Daedone, places emphasis on women's pleasure where love, romance and even flirtation are not required. She was quoted as saying, "I don't think women will really experience freedom until they own their sexuality."

At first I think Nicole is a kindred sister teaching women masturbation skills. However it turns out that clothed men are doing the women who lie comfortably naked from the waist down with their eyes closed while the guys carefully stroke the upper left quadrant of each clitoris. This morning ritual is called orgasmic meditation or "OMIng."

Finally, some real numbers on true female sexuality.  MORE women than ever before are taking time out to pleasure themselves, a survey revealed today.  The poll reveals nine out of 10 are regularly taking time out for some solo action - the highest number ever.

And two-thirds of women admit to pleasuring themselves three times a week, with women in London finding the time for four sessions every seven days.