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SIGMUND FREUD made a name for himself demonizing the clitoris and formulating a truly cockamamie view of women's sexuality. Freud promulgated the idea that the clitoris was an immature source of sexual pleasure, a mere launching pad for the more "mature" vaginal orgasm, which, of course, could only be produced via genital intercourse. What's particularly insidious is that at the time of his postulating Freud had a rather clear understanding of the anatomical role of the clitoris and chose instead to promote his personal ideas about female sexuality over current scientific knowledge. In short, he abused the bully pulpit. Freud demoted the clitoris and promoted the vagina, characterizing clitoral orgasms as "infantile." According to Freud, adult women needed to get past their need for clitoral orgasms and develop a desire for penetration; after all, isn't that what penises do? Penetrate? Female masturbation was criticized as creating clitoral dependency; oral sex was verboten. In Freud's view, there were no two ways about it: if a woman couldn't be satisfied by penetrative sex, something must be wrong with her. As Dr. Thomas Lowry commented in his essay "The Cultural Psychology of the Clitoris," "The idea sprang into Freud's head in 1910 without a visible shred of experimental evidence and it has probably caused more unnecessary worry than any other single psychological notion." Source: She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman by Dr. Ian Kerner
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