A century ago, this woman, pioneering sex researcher Katharine Bement Davis, challenged the idea that respectable women did not – and should not – experience sexual desire, or have sex except to please men and have children.
But while Americans’ understanding of sex has improved over the past century, the “orgasm gap” between men and women is still very much with us.
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How a survey of over 2,000 women in the 1920s changed the way Americans thought about female sexuality
A century ago, a pioneering sex researcher challenged the idea that respectable women did not – and should not – experience sexual desire or have sex, except to please men or have children.The Conversation
