Joe Duncan
2 min readMay 14, 2023

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I'd like to see that evidence you speak of because, as far as I know, it's all part of the same anatomical structure, a massive collection of nerve endings that even includes the anus. A great example of this is my friend who can't get off without anal play. Absolutely necessary.

We can't run a counterfactual on her. She can't tell what it's like not to be that way. Her composition is such that she just can't get off without the posterior being stimulated in that way. So the question remains, are her orgasms really different? Or is it the same feeling as someone who has orgasms from clitoral stimulation alone, only as a consequence of a different type of stimulation?

This is a question teetering into the realm of philosophy, like, "Does Coca-Cola taste the same to you as it does to me? Or does it taste a little bit different and we can't tell because we lack the ability to spend even a few moments in one another's bodies?"

I love questions like these, personally.

I don't think the takeaway is that women are wrong, their feelings are wrong, or somehow bad in any way. The takeaway is that whatever messages they're bombarded with as children—and we men have messages of our own—aren't inert and they have influences on our lives. Some women might not have that sexual script, others do. So it's not a universal, which I think fits comfortably with the fact that difficulty orgasming is far from universal.

My main problem is with the messaging itself. This is just one example of an overarching theme of negative messaging that can have profound impacts throughout our lives.

It's funny to me how often people get riled up over proposed bans of "hate speech," meanwhile, they're perfectly okay with "love speech," conversations about even sex education, being flat-out banned from social media and such from day 1. Isn't that odd? I think it is. It shows how Puritanical our culture still is.

If you publish something on it, feel free to tag me. I'll gladly read it. And I told you a much more interesting one was coming along. Sometimes, it just takes time to get everything together. :)

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Joe Duncan
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