Pornography: Men Possessing Women, by: Andrea ... - Feminish

programs for combating what is called juvenile delinquency. It isobviously impossible, ” he asserts, “for a majority of these women tounderstand the problem that the boy faces in being constantlyaroused and regularly involved with his normal biologic reactions.” 56Kinsey especially disdained the attitudes of upper-level females.He was most offended by upper-level women in social work whodid not understand (condone and support) the male coital imperative.He maintained that the inhibitions of the upper-level femalewere extreme. The proof was that so many of these women hadobjected to intercourse when first married or remained apatheticthroughout marriage. Some even objected to new techniques triedout on them by their husbands and “charge their husbands withbeing lewd, lascivious, lacking in consideration, and guilty of sexperversion in general. There are numerous divorces which turn onthe wife’s refusal to accept some item in coital technique which mayin actuality be commonplace in human [male] behavior. ” 57 T oKinsey, this data did not suggest anything about male sexuality assuch; only that women were perpetually messing men up, standingin the way of male sexual release. Kinsey, who did not, in hisexhaustive, objective research, uncover marital rape or wife battery,did find “several instances of wives who have murdered theirhusbands because they insisted on mouth-genital contacts. ” 5* “Insisted”might perhaps be considered a euphemism. He also found,to his disgust, that divorces had been granted because of “the coitalfrequencies which the husband had demanded. ” 59 Even “demanded”might perhaps be considered a euphemism. He saw, inthe instances of divorces granted because the woman objected to thehusband’s sexual use of her, collusion between women and the law,the two great social forces for sexual restriction of the male. Denialof sexual access by women to men is nowhere viewed by Kinsey asa right of women. He consistently sees refusal as sexual inhibition,moralism, or evidence of a low sex drive in the female. He iscontemptuous of the Freudian formulation of sexual inhibition,though he maintains that the female is sexually inhibited. T oKinsey, inhibition means refusal on any level for any reason. He