Mira Kolenc
Dr. William Masters: "Their peak took my measurements after nine seconds."
Prostitute: "He was feigned."
WM: "You had no orgasm?"
P: "Are you serious now?"
WM: "Yes, of course. You pretended to have an orgasm? Is that a common practice among prostitutes? "
P: "This is a common practice for all people with a cunt. Women pretend orgasms, I would say, almost all. "
WM: "But why should a woman lie in such a matter?"
This dialogue marks the beginning of the series "Masters of Sex" on the two American scientists William Masters and Virginia Johnson, who pioneered the field of human sexual behavior in the 1950 and 1960 years.
The question of why a woman should lie in "this matter" was not one that could be exposed in the prudish America of the 50 years. Basically, sexuality was something that took place behind closed doors and was less enjoyable than marital duty. The social framework, marriage between a man and a woman, often had an alibi function that made other liberties possible. A society that quite naturally lived a double standard was the result. In Europe, things did not look different.
Extra-marital or premarital sex was not socially accepted, but this outlaw mainly affected women if it had come to a misstep. The men, on the other hand, were able to break the rules with impunity, as long as their sexual partner was not same-sex. Sexual abnormality, which included homosexuality for a long time to come (Masters and Johnson, too, initially considered a curable mental disorder), was simply anything beyond the simple act of procreation.
"The fact that a woman does not need a man for orgasm, or even experience a more intense orgasm without him, is an unpleasant truth that has not lost its explosiveness despite sexual liberation."
Female lust did not play a significant role for a long time. It was not intended for wives, either. The only woman who felt (or should feel) in this male-dominated universe was the prostitute. With her a different sexuality could be experienced, which was less marked by taboos.
The fact that sex, in most cases, was a great pleasure neither for a wife in a marital nor in a commercial setting, was not an issue among physicians and scientists either dared to ask.
For Masters opened in conversation with the prostitute - he conducted his first studies in a brothel - on the confession of pretended orgasm, therefore, a whole new world.
Johnson, initially just his secretary with a broader range of responsibilities, Masters answers the question of the fake orgasm very aptly: "To bring a man faster to the climax, so that she (the woman) can do again, what she would rather do." Until Today, perhaps still a valid answer, because the "orgasm lie" is still an integral part of the sexual life of a woman.
Masters and Johnson assumed that if a woman could not come to a climax just by beating her sexual intercourse, there would be a sexual dysfunction. Even though many of these women could easily reach their climax again through masturbation. The sex scholar Shere Hite, however, today believes that 70 percent of women can not come to orgasm through the classic sexual intercourse. So it's the rule rather than the exception.
That a woman for the orgasm does not need the man or even without him a more intense orgasm can experience, is an unpleasant truth, which despite sexual liberation has not lost on explosiveness. Maybe even on the contrary. The supposed liberality of our present does not automatically cancel the long-established stereotypes and misinformation. A simultaneous orgasm is a romantic idea, but it is not the norm. We should finally free ourselves from this obsession.
Photo / Video: Oskar Schmidt.
