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Bernie Brenner BA (Philosophy) Gynaecologist Auckland

The Philosophy of the Sexual Revolution – an attempt to comprehend the phenomenon of modern day “Designer Vagina Surgery”. Bernie Brenner BA (Philosophy) Gynaecologist Auckland. Overview. Birth of the Sexual Revolution End of World War 2, Antibiotics, Pill

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Bernie Brenner BA (Philosophy) Gynaecologist Auckland

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  1. The Philosophy of the Sexual Revolution – an attempt to comprehend the phenomenon of modern day “Designer Vagina Surgery” Bernie Brenner BA (Philosophy) Gynaecologist Auckland

  2. Overview • Birth of the Sexual Revolution • End of World War 2, Antibiotics, Pill • Freud, Kinsey, Masters and Johnson, AlomaColgan • Feminism • Attitudes to Masturbation, Gay rights, Single parenthood • Current attitudes • Cosmopolitan • G Spot • Sex and the City • Designer Vagina

  3. Definition • The sexual revolution refers to a change in sexual morality and sexual behavior throughout the Western world • Trend of equalizing sexual behavior which occurred primarily during the 1960s and 1970s

  4. Trigger factors • Condoms and then in 1960 birth control pill which gave women access to easy and reliable contraception • the financial independence gained by many women who entered workforce during and after World War II • Antibiotics to treat STDs

  5. Sigmund Freud – father of psychoanalysis • roots of human behavior as being rooted in the libido • Victorian prudishness was shoved aside by a new consciousness of a sex drive • Men had an Oedipus complex and women had penis envy

  6. Alfred Kinsey (1894 – 1956) • Alfred Charles Kinsey was an Americanbiologist • Late 40’s early 50’s published two surveys of modern sexual behavior - Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and later in the Human Female

  7. Masters and Johnson

  8. Masters and Johnson the first laboratory data on the anatomy and physiology of human sexual response based on direct observation the nature of female sexual arousal and the mechanisms of vaginal lubrication and orgasm (physiology of orgasmic response was identical whether stimulation was clitoral or vaginal) - capable of being multi-orgasmic • Human Sexual Response and Human Sexual Inadequacy

  9. Aloma Colgan • NZ sexual norms 1980’s • “The penis is a relatively ineffective method of satisfying the female, mainly because it provides only indirect stimulation of the clitoris. The clitoris, of course, is the main form of sexual stimulation for the female. Despite what men think, there are very few nerve endings deep inside the vagina, only around the entrance.”

  10. Sex Manuals and Magazines • Playboy magazine Hugh Heffner • Dr. David Reuben's book Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) 1969 • Alex Comfort's The Joy of Sex: A Gourmet Guide to Love Making. appeared in 1972.

  11. Masturbation - "solitary vice" • Nineteenth Century Anti-masturbation Devices • Lo Piccollo – Becoming Orgasmic – management of female sexual dysfunction

  12. Literature • D. H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover • Henry MillerTropic of Cancer • John ClelandFanny Hill • Bans at importation to USA overturned in 1959 to 1966

  13. Anthropology and the Sexual Revolution • Coming of Age in Samoa - Margaret Mead • 2nd husband from New Zealand was Reo Fortune

  14. The Birth of Feminism • Germaine Greer • Erica Jong • Helen Gurley Brown

  15. Germaine Greer • thesis is that the traditional, suburban, consumerist, nuclear family represses women sexually, and that this devitalizes them, rendering them "eunuchs".

  16. Helen Gurley Brown Sex and the Single Girl: The Unmarried Woman's Guide to Men, Careers, the Apartment, Diet, Fashion, Money and Men. The title itself would have been unthinkable a decade earlier. 1965 she went on to transform Cosmopolitan magazine into a life manual for young career women

  17. Erica Jong – Fear of Flying – The Zipless Fuck • For many men, the sexual revolution was oppressive. • In growing numbers, women demanded competent clitoral stimulation, prolonged foreplay, and multiple orgasms

  18. The G Spot • Ernst Grafenburg Female Ejaculation

  19. Explicit sex on screen • Swedish filmakers like Ingmar Bergman and Vilgot Sjöman - She Danced a Summer Night - 1951 • The Last Tango in Paris – Marlon Brando • Deep Throat – Linda Lovelace 1972

  20. Sex and the City

  21. L Word – Showtime's Lesbian series

  22. The Era of the “Designer Vagina” • Vaginaplasty • Labiaplasty • Hymenal Reconstruction

  23. Kama Sutra The ancient love manual of India

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