Member-only story
Justice Been Denied Too Long
but women need to keep pushing for their rights
I was reading a ‘Medical Advisor: Instant Answers To Your Medical Questions’. I’d picked it up at a second hand book store for a dollar, but the cover looked new. It wasn’t, it was published in 1970.
I was gob-smacked when I read that ‘all sexual problems are entirely the woman’s fault.’ That ‘In general, most of the difficulties, and perhaps most of the learning of new lessons (required for good sexual relations), confront the woman.’
I read on that the inhibitions of frigidity ‘may be resolved by the progress of a successful marriage and by repetition of successful acts of sexual intercourse.’
Indeed. I began to grind my teeth.
I continued to read how having sex after an episiotomy during childbirth could be painful for the woman but that ‘she would get used to it’.
My jaw dropped when I read: ‘Ordinarily an episiotomy will, if anything, contribute to enhanced sexual gratification.’
Er, like who’s? The woman’s? I don’t think so.
