Article: REVISITING "THE MYTH OF THE VAGINAL ORGASM": THE FEMALE ORGASM IN AMERICAN SEXUAL THOUGHT AND SECOND WAVE FEMINISM.

In 1968, Anne Koedt published "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" in Notes from the First Year, a twenty-nine-page typed journal put out by New York Radical Women. [1] By the time an expanded version appeared in Notes from the Second Year, Koedt's article had become a feminist classic. [2] Koedt set out what would become major concerns of the emergent movement-the meaning of sexual freedom, the political significance of sexual pleasure, and the psychological roots of male domination and female subordination. [3] The vaginal orgasm, attained exclusively through intercourse, had long been a keynote in the clamor of expert ideas about female sexual health and normality. When ...

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