Word: sexualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, the earnest little film magazines have been trying to explicate Kong's appeal. He has been persuasively portrayed as a political as well as a sexual symbol. If he is monumentally powerful, he is also totally innocent, a not entirely farfetched projection of nations and races that the capitalist countries have for years exploited. In the new Kong, the oil company executives want to exhibit him as a symbol of corporate might, just as the movie producer wanted to exploit him as a freak in the original. It is Kong's awakening to this outrage as much...
Hite presents a picture of vast dissatisfaction and sexual misfirings. What is more, she thinks she knows the reason. "It is very clear by now," she says, "that the pattern of sexual relations predominant in our culture exploits and oppresses women ... [It] has institutionalized out any expression of women's sexual feelings except for those that support male sexual needs...
...Hite conclusion: it is biologically normal for women not to reach orgasm through intercourse alone, and only pressure by a male-dominated society keeps women from seeing this fact. "Intercourse," she writes, "was never meant to stimulate women to orgasm." She advises women to masturbate and to find a sexual partner who will give clitoral stimulation. "There is no great mystery about why a woman has an orgasm," says Hite. "It happens with the right stimulation, quickly, pleasurably and reliably...
...desirable form of release "as long as women are not pressured into using emotional orgasm as a substitute for real orgasms." She also suggests that the presence of the penis in the vagina may reduce a woman's chances for intense orgasm by acting "as a pacifier"-dispersing sexual tension and diffusing the focus of orgasm. Still, she says, this soothing may bring women a feeling of fulfillment without orgasm...
However shaky her methodology, Hite is not about to abandon her sex research. She is once again circulating questionnaires, this time for a report on male sexuality. A possible hint of things to come: one portion of the current book is entitled "Do Men Need Intercourse?"Though Hite never answers her own question, she refers admiringly to the 19th century sexual practices of the famous Oneida Community in New York. The Oneida men usually indulged in intercourse but not orgasm...