Info on Clitoral and Vaginal O's...

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Info on Clitoral and Vaginal O's...
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Tue, 04-20-2004 - 6:21pm
I'm currently writing a paper on sex, sexuality, etc., and I've recently come across _The Hite Report_ by Shere Hite. I'm sure many of you have heard of it--it's a pretty famous book from the 70's on all aspects of women's sexuality, with a particular emphasis on how/when women orgasm. In some ways it's dated, because it came out right around the time that people were realizing that stimulation of the clitoris is the easiest way for most women to orgasm, and so it definitely has a bit of an agenda there, and there hadn't been that huge explosion of interest in the G-spot yet. But it contains quotes from thousands of women on how they masturbate, how they orgasm during sex (or why they don't), etc. A lot of the quotes contain very specific techniques, so I think many who are interested in details (Taoist perhaps?) would learn a lot from this book. Again, it's dated, but women are women are women, right? It's a good sample.

The bibliographic info:

_The Hite Report_ by Shere Hite. New York: MacMillan, 1976.

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Tue, 04-20-2004 - 7:06pm
I read that shortly after it was published. It was very interesting mainly because such information, in such detail, was NOT available before.
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Tue, 04-20-2004 - 7:41pm
Yes, soliteyah, I read that report back then, too, and it played a major role in informing women about their sexuality and the importance of the clitoris, which was largely ignored at that time. As you say, it is a bit dated, and pre-dates all the interest in the G-spot. Some people still don't believe the G-spot exists, and some people think it's just part of the clitoris. It exists, whatever it is, and deserves the attention that the clitoris got back in the 70s.

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Tue, 04-20-2004 - 8:25pm
Wasn't there a major book on the G-spot in the 80's by Beverly Whipple et al, which provoked a whole new furor over that? I guess it didn't get quite as much attention as the clitoris?

For those of you who read The Hite Report, how did you feel about it at the time? Did it resonate with your experiences, surprise you, not surprise you, etc.? Just curious! For me it isn't hugely earth-shaking since we've come a long way since then, but I can imagine that in its time it was quite a shocker.

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Wed, 04-21-2004 - 1:13am
I disagree Taoist. MEN, and the medical and scientific world may have been ignorant about the importance of the clitoris but most women realized it's importance to our sexual satisfaction. I knew where mine was from age 5-6, I didn't need someone to tell me where or what it was. And I figured out what it DID very quickly! LOL!

And you're right, many sexologists and medical experts still cannot agree whether the g-spot exists or whether it only exists in a few. Until pelvic mapping is finished being done on female cadavers, it's all speculation anyway.

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Wed, 04-21-2004 - 1:23am
I think it was just a validation of what I, and every other woman I knew, was experiencing. It FINALLY gave society the OTHER half of the sexual equation and it was VERY different than the one always so prominently displayed in our culture. For once, people were talking about the FEMALE experience openly. Just TALKING about it and how it differed from the male experience was very exciting. At the time. Now, it many ways, it seems like we've gone backwards.
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Wed, 04-21-2004 - 8:12am
Kat, I thought I was alone on finding it at such a young age! ;-)

I will attest that the g-spot does in fact exist, but I will also attest that there's even more than meets the eye. I'll call it the "h-spot" for hyper-sensitive vagina since I've had orgasms without any stimulation at all while in this state. So, I believe the female sexual organs to be an intricate bag of nerves that only seem to show their face according to the amount/or lack thereof of stimulation(mental and physical). I believe "live action" is the only true way to discover just how versatile the female sexual organs really are, something of which a cadava can't reproduce.



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Wed, 04-21-2004 - 10:08am
i was a young woman in the late 70's and i had my first orgasm reading the Hite Report! LOL...i was in my childhood bedroom lying on my tummy on my bed sneakily reading the book and pow! i started rocking and had my first orgasm!...i also learned some techniques from that book and began to use the running water in the bathtub to produce my early orgasms...i got hooked fast and was always rubbing on something or taking baths LOL

i agree, it is dated in some ways but offers some great insight into how women orgasm.

honey

    

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Wed, 04-21-2004 - 12:36pm
I agree that some women are "built" differently and will respond to different stimuli, however, I still personally do not believe it's a fact for all women. As I've mentioned before, I believe that the g-spot is an area behind and connected with the clitoral shaft which runs up into the pelvis for several inches. And while I respond to g-spot stimulation, as an enhancement, it isn't enough to get me to orgasm alone. I still have more intense feelings from clitoral manipulation.

And I think we've already discovered that women have an "emotional libido" and that our sexual response is greatly influenced by that factor.

The research I was referring to, is a nerve and vessel mapping only, and a LONG delayed one, to benefit female surgical patients, etc. facing any kind of pelvic or gynelogical surgery, in order to leave the nerve and vessel systems as undamaged/responsive as possible. I might add that this same research for the MALE pelvis was done many decades ago.




Edited 4/21/2004 4:21 pm ET ET by katmandoo2001

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Wed, 04-21-2004 - 1:47pm
Definitely different! I am not capable of ejaculating, so it is my present belief that not ALL women ejaculate. Perhaps it's a combination of internal factors that I just don't possess...or...one day(could be many moons from now) It'll happen, and I'll think of this forum and how I posted that I've never ejaculated. ;-)
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Wed, 04-21-2004 - 2:44pm
i've never ejaculated either though i have been sexually active for going on 3 decades and am very multi-orgasmic and usually very well lubricated....maybe some of us never will?...honestly i never heard of it til i read these boards.

honey

    

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