Sexual desire

Friday, September 11, 2009 - 05:21 in Psychology & Sociology

Up until the 1950’s, society believed that women only participated in sex either for the purposes of procreation or to satisfy their partner. There was shock and disbelief when Alfred Kinsey suggested that female sexuality might include women feeling sexual desire at all (‘Sexual behavior in the human female’ published 1953).

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