Word: clitoromania
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Forget about Organs. Greer is also concerned about the "clitoromania" of some of her American sisters. Freud believed that in the psychosexually mature woman, the primary erogenous zone was the vagina, but Masters and Johnson found the clitoris equally important. Women's Lib theoreticians were delighted, and Anne Koedt's pamphlet called The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm has become an important part of the liberation canon, bought today even by high school girls with inquiring minds. Greer takes bold issue with the notion of "the utter passivity and even irrelevance of the vagina." It is time...
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