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I found the Mosher survey very interesting. I too agree that it was surprising that the younger women seemed more sexually conservative than the older women, especially the 53 year old. Through this survey you can see the shift from the traditional family to the Companionate marriage. Though respondent number 1 believed that sexual satisfaction was only necessary for the male, most of the other women believed that it was necessary for the female as well. I wonder how shocking this survey was to these women who were interviewed because it deals with such salacious issues, and reveals that women do have sexual desires which were thought of as immoral in the past. –Caryn Levine | I found the Mosher survey very interesting. I too agree that it was surprising that the younger women seemed more sexually conservative than the older women, especially the 53 year old. Through this survey you can see the shift from the traditional family to the Companionate marriage. Though respondent number 1 believed that sexual satisfaction was only necessary for the male, most of the other women believed that it was necessary for the female as well. I wonder how shocking this survey was to these women who were interviewed because it deals with such salacious issues, and reveals that women do have sexual desires which were thought of as immoral in the past. –Caryn Levine | ||
| − | Why would Dr. Frederick "of course...tried to explain it away?" Didn't Jane Addams, Louise DeKoven Brown and other Chicago reformers blame overwork, commercialized recreation and alcohol for "bringing out natural yearnings and instincts that THEY preferred to see repressed"? Why would these women want to see these instincts repressed? Wouldn't a prominent woman such as Addams OF COURSE have approved of open sexual practices? And why would Dr. Frederick have bothered to interview women about their feelings towards sex? Mosher's study wasn't common nor was it published, so why are we assuming today that it was a common thing to ask women about their attitudes towards sex a century ago? -schang | + | Why would Dr. Frederick "of course...tried to explain it away?" Didn't Jane Addams, Louise DeKoven Brown and other Chicago reformers blame overwork, commercialized recreation and alcohol for "bringing out natural yearnings and instincts that THEY preferred to see repressed"? Why would these women want to see these instincts repressed? Wouldn't a prominent woman such as Addams OF COURSE have approved of open sexual practices? And why would Dr. Frederick have bothered to interview women about their feelings towards sex? Mosher's study wasn't common nor was it published, so why are we assuming today that it was a common thing to ask women about their attitudes towards sex a century ago? And didn't the Mosher survey find that some women didn't have an interest in sex? I'm sure that women's history is a contentious topic but objectivity needs to be maintained and we need to make sure that we don't project our modern day assumptions into history. -schang |
== Manifestations of Nymphomania, 1907 == | == Manifestations of Nymphomania, 1907 == | ||
