The Western Medicalization of Heterosexual White Women’s Orgasm

Mehmet At if Ergunmehmetaergun at y ahoo do t co mThe We stern Medicalization of Hetero sexual White Women’s Orgas m This work is licensed und er the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. To vi ew a copy of this license , visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2 .5/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 543 Howard Street, 5th Floor , San Francisco, California , 94105 , USA .Mehme t Atif ErgunTable of Co ntentsIntroduction ................................................................................................................................... .............3Race, Ethnicit y, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation ..................................................................... .......3A Brief Historical Review of the Western Medicali zation of Heterosexual White Women’s Orgasm .....4The Contemporar y Western Medicalizat ion of Heterosexual White Wom en’s Orgasm...................... .....5The Phy siology of the Fem ale Sexual Response ............................................................ .......................5The Androcentric Model of Sexualit y.................................................................................................... 6The “Disease” ......................................................................................................................................... 7The Categorizat ion................................................................................. ...