I stumbled upon an article in the Washington post describing an experiment where men and women were shown sexually explicit material, and their arousal is measured. The experiment essentially revealed that women are sexually aroused by everything, whereas straight men are aroused by women and gay men aroused by men. I fell in love with the explanation given by the authors comrade Gina:
“…What this study has confirmed is what we have always known: Women are more complicated and more interesting than men in all observable ways. This includes our appetites in general, and our sexual response in particular. Our sexual response is constructed like the Chartres cathedral, with flying buttresses and Romanesque friezes and colonnades and catafalques and labyrinthine passageways said to have mystical powers. Men’s sexual response is constructed like a rubber-band slingshot…
…Society has compelled women to become something unnatural, like “Riverdance” performers. We are expected to behave demurely in all places but the bedroom. So, from the waist up we are practically motionless, hands on hips in a perpetual attitude of motherly rebuke, but below, the thighs are parting, the legs are flying, the skirts are bouncing saucily. This creates a basic disconnection between mind and body. If women are confused, who can blame us?…
…Social historians concede that civilization arose and prospered from men accomplishing things to impress — and thus to bed — women. And it turns out that women can be impressed and bedded by all varieties of complicated things, such as the writing of great poetry, the designing of timelessly beautiful buildings, the discovery of penicillin. Imagine what civilization would be like if it had to arise from women impressing men.”
This explains so much. That guy over there is absolutely not aroused by two dudes making out. He’s also slightly weirded out that his girlfriend is aroused by girl-on-girl action!
Approximately 60 days of every year, the female body is filled with estrogen while she goes through a process related directly to giving birth. Giving birth takes place 9 months post sexual contact. How are we not sexually volcanic beings? Why does society force women to “become something unnatural, like “Riverdance” performers.” when it comes to sex, and men can watch porn and explore sex without (as much) judgment?
I’m proud to be a sexual being. I know what excites me, and I am not embarrassed by it. I’m also not easy, not a slut, not promiscuous, and not tactless. Every time I have my period, part of me says “Damn…” due to it’s inconvenient surprise on Valentines Day. The other part of me rejoices, because I belong to the other half of the race with a belly wherein a human body will one day grow. That human body will be inhabited by a soul, thus providing the world with something She has created.
I’m allowed to be aroused. I’m allowed to be sexy. I’m allowed to be a woman.
