Don’t get me wrong, said Jessica Grose in Slate. A woman’s orgasm is an important thing. But the One Taste Urban Retreat Center—a San Francisco organization dedicated to the pursuit of the perfect O—takes things a bit too far (read the New York Times story). “Isn’t it horrifically self-absorbed to join a commune” with such a limited focus?
“Maybe I’ve just been in San Francisco too long,” said Tracy Clark-Flory in Salon. But the people in the Times story didn’t seem self-absorbed to me. If anything, the women seeking to realize their “orgasmic potential”—and the men willing to focus on female satisfaction—are “sexually absorbed.” And, “within a mainstream sexual culture defined almost exclusively by dudely desires,” a little devotion to female rapture can be a very healthy thing.
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