This week I learned that the world is a strange place and that science is terrible when it comes to understanding female sexuality, so, really, business as usual. Dr. Chauntelle Tibbals is a seriously awesome chick, though, so that’s a win.
- Meet L.A.’s (New) Resident Porn Professor (LA Weekly)
She decided to actually talk to members of the L.A. adult-entertainment community, something she says nobody was doing circa 2004.
[Dr. Chauntelle] Tibbals reached out to tons of adult businesses seeking access to their offices “to see what was really happening.” Most people ignored her, but one of the more prominent companies granted her a summer internship.
She took notes and did “ethnography stuff,” in addition to sending emails, driving people around, getting lunch and all the other duties of a PR flack. She likens her experience to going up a terrifying roller coaster, only to find there’s no drop. “It was just a small business,” Tibbals says. “The misperception was so insane and so huge that every day I went, it became more and more compelling.”
Whoa, this chick is fascinating. I love her already. You should check out what she’s been writing about the industry. I really want to read her book. Adding it to the list as we speak.
It’s three o’clock on a Wednesday afternoon and I’m lying on a sea of blue gym mats with my head jammed between the legs of a woman. For the last 20 minutes, I’ve been rag-dolled all over the place; poked, prodded, and tortured as my limbs have succumbed to submission hold after submission hold.
This time her thighs land around my neck in a move known as the head scissors—seconds later, as my face turns beetroot for the eighth and final time, I tap out.
Welcome to the world of session wrestling, where men pay women to grapple them. Also known as BDSM wrestling, it’s an incredibly niche fetish and the UK scene is fast gaining a reputation as leading world champion. […]
These wrestlers usually charge £150 for an hour-long private battle in a private mat room, though I got my ass handed to me gratis. The winner (spoiler: it’s nearly always the woman) must earn the most number of tap outs, where an opponent taps the mat in mercy; or pins, when an opponent’s shoulders are held to the mat for three seconds.
Is it too late to change professions?
The issue is usually presented like so: Male orgasms are “straightforward” and serve an obvious purpose. But female orgasms—what’s the deal with those? If they aren’t reliably sparked by a penis pumping away in the baby chute, why do they happen at all? This conundrum caused many academics and researchers extreme consternation throughout the later half of the 20th century, and the resulting orgasm angst yielded such an avalanche of dubious accounts that in 2005 Elisabeth A. Lloyd, a professor of biology and philosophy, dedicated an entire book to highlighting the collective failings.
The Case of the Female Orgasm is a glorious, devastating critique of bad science in general and sexist bad science especially. (Lloyd described her reaction when she first read the existing arguments as, “Wow! This is horrible science,” which pretty much sums it up.)
Wow, nothing about this surprises me.
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