I know. I have a male perspective on things, and an obsession with orgasm is probably one of them. "The L Word" has taught me, however, that women are as concerned with that event as men are. It's a new world - females lions are roaming the svelte land looking to mate as aggressively as males are.
The world's different than it was forty-five years ago. We were just moving into young, unmarried, straight sex back then. We asked our parents, "Why can't I have sex with my boyfriend/girlfriend? We're in love and want to be together." Except most of us asked that question under our breath or in our heads. Sex was subterranean until 1967, then thousands were coupling publicly at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and no one could do anything about it.
The rest of the '60s was about sex and love, then Stephens Stills said "If you can't be with the one you love . . . love the one you're with," and he had nothing platonic in mind.
So it was sex within relationships until the early '70s; then sex for Orgasm because you could through the '70s; and an absolute compulsion for Orgasm into the '80; then oops ("Hefner, we have a problem") from the mid '80s on; the fire is less intense today, but safe sex can never lead to no sex, and connecting disease and a fear of pregnancy into an abstinence message is just another illustration of the Church gone wrong.
The New Book has much to say about this, as we shall see.
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