Everybody stared at me. It’s what people do when you’re different. I was a wheelchair user, and as I turned 18, I wanted the staring to be for something other than my wheelchair. So I took to punk, in ripped stockings, red hair, blonde hair… hair of multi-coloured styles.
Stare on, I declared to the world. I’m here to shock!But this occasion presented me with a new twist.I’d left the record shop, clutching a precious 12", and a woman, gawping at me, bent down with a huge grin.‘I have to ask. Can you… do it?’My face flushed as red as my hair.She persisted into my silence. ‘You know, sex. What with your er … situation.’‘**** off,’ I said with my best punk sneer, and she had the nerve to tell me off for rudeness before stomping off. But inside a mixture of anger and despair made me want to slink into a corner with my Sex Pistols LP.
Guest blog by Penny PepperBesieged by desires I could not name, hitting me with a power I did not expect, it seemed day by day strangers were quite at ease in asking me personal questions about my body - and my sexual organs.Imagine it. You’re in a queue, on a bus, and some woman (it's most likely to be a woman) bends down, and starts with the deadly line, ‘hope you don’t mind me asking but…?’Maybe I should have got into the habit to say, yes I do mind. But for years I was shy, a timid thing, despite the punk hair, and used to the interrogations about my body. I would usually nod and look flustered, hoping they would go away.
The questions are variations on a theme. A theme on my genitals, explicit or subtle.‘Can you have children?’‘Can you, erm, get pre. sness (thanks in no small part to sex toy shops and curved G-spot toys), scientists felt it was time to study it. Only, they didnt do a particularly good job. A 2001 opinion piece published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology which called the G-spot a gynecological UFO received a lot of mainstream press, but the essay merely concluded that there wasnt enough scientific evidence to prove the G-spot was real.Then came the bombshell study of 2010 that incited alarming headlines.
1,800 women, who were all twins, were studied by scientists at Kings College in London. The study consisted entirely of interviews, including the questionably-phrased query, Do you believe you have a so-called G-spot, a small area the size of a 20p coin on the front wall of your vagina that is sensitive to deep pressure?While 56 percent of the women said yes to that particular question (and 40 to 48 percent said it was not difficult at all to have a vaginal orgasm), media sources overwhelmingly reported that this study was proof that the G-spot doesnt exist. Why? Because thats what the researchers concluded. Finding no pattern in the pairs of twins, they concluded that the G-spot was subjective.
The bias of the researchers wasnt the only flaw in that study. Scientists specifically excluded lesbian and bisexual women from participating, and failed to ask questions about digital or sex toy penetration only vaginal intercourse and clitoral stimulation. They didnt ask about sexual positions, either.Some sex educators such as?Rebecca Chalker (author of?The Clitoral Truth)?and Betty Dodson believe that the urethral sponge is part of the clitoris, and therefore that G-spot orgasms are still clitoral orgasms..</p><p>ost importantly!) sexy sexessories that you can find. From now until Friday July 27th 2012 when you buy any Sh! leather goods online, just enter the code 50shades at checkout to get a hot n heavy 15% OFF. Oh we are good to you!.</p>
Stare on, I declared to the world. I’m here to shock!But this occasion presented me with a new twist.I’d left the record shop, clutching a precious 12", and a woman, gawping at me, bent down with a huge grin.‘I have to ask. Can you… do it?’My face flushed as red as my hair.She persisted into my silence. ‘You know, sex. What with your er … situation.’‘**** off,’ I said with my best punk sneer, and she had the nerve to tell me off for rudeness before stomping off. But inside a mixture of anger and despair made me want to slink into a corner with my Sex Pistols LP.
Guest blog by Penny PepperBesieged by desires I could not name, hitting me with a power I did not expect, it seemed day by day strangers were quite at ease in asking me personal questions about my body - and my sexual organs.Imagine it. You’re in a queue, on a bus, and some woman (it's most likely to be a woman) bends down, and starts with the deadly line, ‘hope you don’t mind me asking but…?’Maybe I should have got into the habit to say, yes I do mind. But for years I was shy, a timid thing, despite the punk hair, and used to the interrogations about my body. I would usually nod and look flustered, hoping they would go away.
The questions are variations on a theme. A theme on my genitals, explicit or subtle.‘Can you have children?’‘Can you, erm, get pre. sness (thanks in no small part to sex toy shops and curved G-spot toys), scientists felt it was time to study it. Only, they didnt do a particularly good job. A 2001 opinion piece published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology which called the G-spot a gynecological UFO received a lot of mainstream press, but the essay merely concluded that there wasnt enough scientific evidence to prove the G-spot was real.Then came the bombshell study of 2010 that incited alarming headlines.
1,800 women, who were all twins, were studied by scientists at Kings College in London. The study consisted entirely of interviews, including the questionably-phrased query, Do you believe you have a so-called G-spot, a small area the size of a 20p coin on the front wall of your vagina that is sensitive to deep pressure?While 56 percent of the women said yes to that particular question (and 40 to 48 percent said it was not difficult at all to have a vaginal orgasm), media sources overwhelmingly reported that this study was proof that the G-spot doesnt exist. Why? Because thats what the researchers concluded. Finding no pattern in the pairs of twins, they concluded that the G-spot was subjective.
The bias of the researchers wasnt the only flaw in that study. Scientists specifically excluded lesbian and bisexual women from participating, and failed to ask questions about digital or sex toy penetration only vaginal intercourse and clitoral stimulation. They didnt ask about sexual positions, either.Some sex educators such as?Rebecca Chalker (author of?The Clitoral Truth)?and Betty Dodson believe that the urethral sponge is part of the clitoris, and therefore that G-spot orgasms are still clitoral orgasms..</p><p>ost importantly!) sexy sexessories that you can find. From now until Friday July 27th 2012 when you buy any Sh! leather goods online, just enter the code 50shades at checkout to get a hot n heavy 15% OFF. Oh we are good to you!.</p>