Unequal to the Task

Abstract

Item 1: A recent New York Times article highlighted a study of 24,000 students over five years that revealed differences between men’s and women’s attainment of sexual fulfillment in the hookup culture. Despite the best efforts of feminism to enforce parity between the sexes in all areas of life—abetted by government, academia, popular culture, the media, as well as the ever-threatening presence of political correctness—it seems that an outstanding “inequality,” as it was termed, still persists. Women do not achieve orgasm in casual sex at nearly the rate that men do—only “about 40 percent of women had an orgasm during their last hookup involving intercourse, while 80 percent of men did.” As one professor observed, “The notion of sexual liberation, where men and women both had equal access to casual sex, assumed a comparable likelihood of that sex being pleasurable.” But, he concluded rather solemnly, “that part of the playing field is not level.” The study also revealed that “roughly three quarters of women in the survey said they had an orgasm the last time they had sex in a committed relationship.” The idea that God and/or Nature may have designed things that way for good reasons cut no ice in the discussion of this particular “inequality.” Acad. Quest. (2014) 27:12–17 DOI 10.1007/s12129-014-9413-8