Comments on: reason magazine on “the frigid woman” http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2008/10/reason-magazine-on-the-frigid-woman.html Sex educator Violet Blue's site for sex culture commentary, accurate sex information, erotica and more. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:54:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: LibertyVini http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2008/10/reason-magazine-on-the-frigid-woman.html/comment-page-1#comment-3138 LibertyVini Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:59:13 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=2148#comment-3138 My view? Seventies sex was exotic. It was transgressive. It was modern. It was fun. It was after Roe, but before the Great Plague , i.e.- the consequences were manageable. By the time I and my peers attained our majority, sex had become at once more fearful, and yet at the same time more commonplace, tolerated less, like with pot before it, 'just say no' overthrew 'just say o'. And today? Anything goes. We have become relatively desensitized, sex has lost some of its mystery. Despite how bleak it sounds, this is far from all bad. Quality has begun to overtake quantity in our sex lives, more 'relationship sex', less frantic, fearful coupling. It means we have an interest in being better rather than bigger lovers. It means Violet Blue's message is getting through. Thank you! My view? Seventies sex was exotic. It was transgressive. It was modern. It was fun. It was after Roe, but before the Great Plague , i.e.- the consequences were manageable. By the time I and my peers attained our majority, sex had become at once more fearful, and yet at the same time more commonplace, tolerated less, like with pot before it, ‘just say no’ overthrew ‘just say o’.
And today? Anything goes. We have become relatively desensitized, sex has lost some of its mystery. Despite how bleak it sounds, this is far from all bad. Quality has begun to overtake quantity in our sex lives, more ‘relationship sex’, less frantic, fearful coupling. It means we have an interest in being better rather than bigger lovers. It means Violet Blue’s message is getting through. Thank you!

]]> By: Alan Bostick http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2008/10/reason-magazine-on-the-frigid-woman.html/comment-page-1#comment-3134 Alan Bostick Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:45:05 +0000 http://www.tinynibbles.com/?p=2148#comment-3134 IMHO, "frigid" women were lesbian women compelled by social pressure into marriages with men to whom they weren't the least bit attracted. It wasn't the sexual revolution that obliterated the frigid woman, it was the feminist revolution, or perhaps gay liberation. (I don't quite understand how anything that can pass muster with the CBS Standards & Practices office can also be at the cutting edge of erotic exploration.) IMHO, “frigid” women were lesbian women compelled by social pressure into marriages with men to whom they weren’t the least bit attracted. It wasn’t the sexual revolution that obliterated the frigid woman, it was the feminist revolution, or perhaps gay liberation.

(I don’t quite understand how anything that can pass muster with the CBS Standards & Practices office can also be at the cutting edge of erotic exploration.)

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