One feminist article, two nuggets of stupidity

Yesterday, Assanova dropped a link to an article on AlterNet about “female sexual dysfunction.” The author is whining about how Big Pharma is nefariously trying to help women have better orgasms. How dare they try to spice up peoples’ sex lives! This quote at the end had me laughing:

“Maybe the best approach is not ineffective, over-hyped drugs with nasty side effects, but an end to disease mongering and a strong dose of comprehensive sex education,” says filmmaker Canner.

I’ve come to the conclusion that mainstream conservatives and leftists are equally in the dark on human sexuality. The liberals are desperately in love with “sex education,” urging that every schoolchild should be taught by their teachers how to snap a condom on a cucumber (borrowed from Michael Savage) and other basic information that literally every kid figures out on their own. So-called “sex ed” teaches everything except the most important thing a man could know – how to interact with women. If I was Chief Muckety-Muck of the public school system, I’d replace “sex ed” with “game ed,” where fourteen-year old boys learn how to talk to girls without shitting their pants in beta fear.

Also, this shining jewel of idiocy in the comments:

Wow. I think the real problem is that women’s sexual pleasure isn’t valued in our culture. Emphasis is more on how a woman can please her man but not on what she can do to please herself, or expecting men to also care about their female partner’s pleasure. Also, people have unique sexual needs, so one woman may tend to orgasm more easily or crave sex more often than another. That doesn’t mean anything is wrong.

Women should be encouraged to a.) masturbate and b.) communicate to their partners what they like and what they want. Then perhaps they would find more sexual satisfaction. Must must also be encouraged to think of the woman’s needs and what she finds most pleasurable. Women may also find it difficult to enjoy sex when we’re so bombarded with conflicting messages about being the perfect girlfriend/wife and about our bodies, that it’s no wonder some of us can’t enjoy sex.

The only “dysfunction” is the sexual culture that devalues women’s pleasure while also expecting them to only enjoy one specific sexual practice (PIV). But of course the pharmaceutical industry would take advantage of women’s insecurities about sex in order to profit.

These are the sorts of women who in college would nail up flyers for Take Back the Night rallies right next to “womyn’s center” printouts explaining, in precise and clinical detail, how to masturbate.