LA Times Celebrates Some Parts of Female Orgasm

Three days before Valentine's Day I'm preparing for a lot of obnoxious articles in the media about sex and romance. There's a five article series in today's LA Times which caught me off guard by talking about sex without laughing.

The main piece in the series offers an "update" on scientific research into female orgasm. I put update in quotes since the news that's offered isn't new, it's work that's been going on for a while, and there isn't really anything new reported. But this is more a factor of the slow pace of legitimate research (and the inadequate funding sex research receives). The four other pieces, like the main one, are pleasantly free of titillation and bad puns. What's disappointing was the focus on physiological, evolutionary, and pharmacological perspectives, to the exclusion of social, emotional, and more broadly psychological ones. There was a time when tying sexual content to a political point gave it the legitimacy needed to get coverage in the mainstream press. These days the justification seems to have to be tied to a pharmaceutical product or brain scan.

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