Originally posted by Shogun
Just as there is a whole spectrum for guys there is also a whole spectrum where SOME women aren't as sexual while others ARE.
Absolutely right, Shogun.
You find different levels of sex hormone (testosterone) in any male or female population.
However, this variability does not prevent us from conducting researches on female sexuality and then generalise from the data gathered.
Researches carried out all around the world invariably reveal these basic results:
1) - Around 20% percent of women are fully orgasmic, that is, they have the ability to reach orgasm with any man, even a total stranger.
2) – 40 to 50% of all women can only reach orgasm with a man they are in love with. These women depend on emotional commitment to have pleasure.
Everybody knows the story of prostitutes who don’t feel anything with their clients and, after 20 or 30 sexual acts during the night, finally reach orgasm with the pimp they are in love with.
These prostitutes belong to this second and most numerous group. The group of women whose sexuality can only be unleashed within a context of romantic involvement, being therefore, partially frigid.
3) - Finally, you have a third group, comprising something around 20 to 30% of all women. These women do not have any sensation of pleasure during intercourse, no matter how emotionally involved they are with their partners. They are totally frigid.
At this point in the debate, you don’t have to be a genius to figure out what Shogun and all the other members interested in this subject will reply:
“Well José, it’s a known fact that every serious, scientific research on female sexuality does show that a large number of women have indeed frigidity problems.
The numbers may vary a bit from the ones you presented above, according to the particular research, but there is no doubt about the main thrust of your argument.
But most of these cases of female frigidity are the direct consequence of our patriarchal society, of the conservative/restrictive upbringing so many women are subjected to.”
Since this argument will innevitably be raised, let me make a preemptive strike : )
The idea, popularised by the feminist movement, that a repressive upbringing can lead to the supression of women’s ability to orgasm is absolutely true.
If you research the levels of female frigidity in poor (and poorly educated) communities all over the world you will be confronted with frightening results.
Nearly 100% of all female slum dwellers in India, South Africa and the US are totally frigid.
The levels of female frigidity in more conservative parts of the world like Saudi Arabia, Iran and (to a lesser degree) India are much higher than in scandinavian countries, for example.
So the fact that female frigidity has a psychological root is undeniable.
But this is where reality ends and the feminist fable begins.
The idea, also popularized by many feminists, that a sexually liberated society can practically eliminate female frigidity is as erroneous as any attempt to deny the psychological roots behind many cases of non orgasmic women.
A religious opressive society like Saudi Arabia or a social environment dominated by poverty and obscurantism (a slum) can
ELEVATE the normal incidence of female frigidity to totally abnormal 100%.
But the opposite is not true.
In all human societies, even in Holland, you have the
LOWER LIMIT of female frigidity that simply cannot be reduced.
No matter how sexually liberated a given human society is, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, you name it...
You will always find approximately 80% of women who can only orgasm within a context of romantic relationship with their partners or just can’t orgasm at all.
All researches conducted on female sexuality are in agreement with your statement, Shogun.
There is indeed a spectrum ranging from women who are totally frigid (20%) to fully orgasmic women (also 20%).
But these researches also make clear that female sexuality is totally dependent on psychological factors (upbringing, emotional involvement with the partner), they make clear that women have an extremely limited sexual potential, standing at the threshold of frigidity.
So the spectrum confirms my generalisation that women were not primarily made for sexual pleasure.