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Cultural Suppression of Female Sexuality

October 4, 2002:

Roy F. Baumeister, Jean M. Twenge. Review of General Psychology 2002, Vol. 6, No. 2, 166–203. Instead, the evidence favors the view that women have worked to stifle each other’s sexuality because sex is a limited resource that women use to negotiate with men, and scarcity gives women an advantage. Sherfey (1966) proposed that the […]

Woman’s creation : sexual evolution and the shaping of society

November 6, 1990:

by Elizabeth Fisher. As long as the masculine role is aggrandized and the female role derogated, as long, that is, as nature is seen from a male-supremacist view, human sexual encounters will be tainted. We are imprisoned in a conquest vocabulary which places females in the “submissive position.” Convention equates the female’s role in sex […]

Mary Jane Sherfey MD

March 30, 1983:

Sherfey’s position consists of three major theses: first, that the early embryo of all human beings is female; second, that by the nature of their physiological structure women are sexually insatiable; and third, that civilization arose as a means of suppressing the inordinate demands of female sexuality that result from its inherent insatiability.

The Evolution of Human Sexuality

October 16, 1979:

by Donald Symonds, 1979 Oxford University Press. A central theme of this book is that, with respect to sexuality, there is a female human nature and a male human nature, and these natures are extraordinarily different.

The Nature and Evolution of Female Sexuality

October 31, 1966:

by Mary Jane Sherfey MD. In a major departure from conventional studies the noted psychiatrist Mary Jane Sherfey argues that there is an insatiable drive in the human female which through the centuries has been forcibly suppressed in order to permit civilization as we know it to evolve.