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The History of the Clitoris

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Why Aren't I Insisting?

As late as the 1970s, there were sex advice manuals saying that orgasm was not essential for women. A lot of the 16th and 17th century had a very lusty robust attitude to sex and pleasure. And I think that's why looking back and understanding how culturally attitudes towards pleasure and desire have moved within the West.

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