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[highlyeccentric]

If Hitler had had the right orgasms the Holocaust would never have happened.

Germaine Greer, with typical heavy-handedness, attacks Fay Weldon, the female orgasm, men, and everything in between. So far as I can tell, her position on all of these things is that they are wrong.

ed: no wait, she came good on page two:

Fay Weldon is probably right to say that sex without orgasm can be perfectly pleasurable, but making love is even more deeply satisfying than simply having sex, with the female orgasm as an optional extra.

rounding off, of course, with this nice peice of snark:

Weldon is certainly right to say that there is no point in a woman demanding an orgasm from her man. If an orgasm is what she wants, rather than intimacy, there’s always the Rabbit.

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[lepsdavid.livejournal.com]

Whenever I read an article by Greer I am reminded of one she wrote when she was younger, for Thrunka. It was printed in the 70s (reprinted in the 90s for reasons that appear to amount to a lack of willing contributors for the womens edition). It was all about how women should be on top, how it was the sex was better that way (in an unusual moment for greer she meant for both partners) and how any women who let herself be under a man during sex was setting back the good work of women's rights.