Sexuality is usually one of those areas that doesn't really work up a lot of mouth-frothing from me.  I'm pretty much a live and let live kind of gal when it comes to what people do between the sheets (or wherever you do your business).  There is, however, one exception--columnists.  I am not a fan of someone writing an article that influences attitudes, when that article...well.  Sucks.

Case in point: an article over on The Frisky by John Devore(their "Mind of Man" columnist) entitled "The Number One Sex Tip to Drive Him Wild".  That Number One Tip?  Touch his dick.  Yeah, "har har har" am I right?  His article is comprised of roughly three points:

1. Women's magazines, with their attempts to come up with a million ways to please men, suck.
2. Men require only a naked woman who is willing to touch their dick to be satisfied.
3. Women are complex, amazing creatures who require greater effort to satisfy and men are lucky to be allowed to touch them in any capacity.

I agree with his first point.  I hate the whole, "Do this or HE WILL CHEAT ON YOU" component of women's magazines.  I'm down with that.  

However.  Number 2 is insulting to pretty much all men but a handful of teenagers and creeps and the third point just irks me to my core.  My response to the post:

Okay, I seriously just stopped months of lurking and finally registered for the sole purpose of commenting on this post.  I cannot believe that a site chockful of feminists, complex and intelligent people, actually are clapping so hard for this article that could have been written twenty years ago for all the gender stereotyping going on.  And everyone except one commenter loves it like it’s a dreamcicle?  Really?

I get it--"Mind of Man” is the sort of tagline that requires the author to pretend to speak for All Men In The Land, but...oh, boy.  This idea that men are just going to cum in their pants as soon as you flash them a boob and offer to touch their dicks is offensive.  It really is.  The pretence that these sweet simple fellows just bumble through life hoping someone will touch their penis for a minute is as offensive as the image of women being never more satisfied as when they’ve bought a new pair of shoes and gotten a fancy dinner on the table in time for their man.

Yeah, having women’s magazines parading an endlessly regurgitated pile of Tricks to Keep Your Man sucks.  I’m right there with you.  And sure, if you compare sheer numbers in the Hard to Bring to Orgasm category, you’ll likely find more women than men.  But that does not make men sexually simple, nor does it imply that they don’t have fantasies and desires and occasionally like a bit of the fanciful between the sheets (or in public or in a hotel or whathaveyou--I don’t judge the naughties).

I hate this lark that women are so incredibly intelligent and complex that men are infinitely lucky that we ignore their knuckle-dragging long enough to let them hump our legs and reach their peak of sexual fulfilment.  I am a feminist.  I believe in true equality between the sexes--up to and including working just as hard for my man’s pleasure as he does for mine.

 

I really hate when feminism is bastardised to become this idea that women are Creatures Unlike Any Other and men are bumbling mouth-breathers who should have to wash their hands before so much as touching our shoes.  I think this is pretty much true whether we're talking about bedroom antics or clothed experiences.  

Unless I'm wrong and men really do only want a naked woman to touch their penis..?