Public Service Announcement

This post is out of character for this blog, but it drives me insane that a certain basic misunderstanding continues to make people so unhappy in their sex lives. I had the misfortune to accidently hear an insipid nouveau hippy public radio show called The People's Pharmacy this morning. The guest was Dr. Irwin Goldstein, allegedly one of the worlds great experts on sexuality. Check the whole crew out:
http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/archives/radio_shows/645_sexual_solutions.asp.

So a caller asks Dr. Goldstein about his girlfriend's "anorgasmia" problem. The girlfriend can have an orgasm by clitoral stimulation, but not from vaginal intercourse. Dr. Goldstein intones that this is a "common problem" and that the girlfriend should go to a doctor who specializes in sexual medicine, and also that she should try yohimbe.

ARGGGHHHHH!!!!!

Newsflash, Dr. Goldstein: if MOST women, maybe 80 percent or so, can't ever or often orgasm from vaginal intercourse, it's not a problem, IT'S NATURE. You numbnuts on the People's Pharmacy like nature, don't you? It's ANATOMY. Luckily for us all, NATURE has conveniently located the clit where it is easily accessible by one or both parties in pretty much any sexual position. So, to quote my hero Dan Savage: Rub on her clit! During intercourse! Or tell her to rub on her clit! Problem solved.

Don't thank me, thank Dan: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=267471