Blog Eight
The Koedt and Dworkin piece support each other in the sense that women are merely objects of pleasure for men. In Koedt’s piece, “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm� she argues about women only being able to achieve clitoral orgasms. She states that females, “must discard the ‘normal’ concepts of sex and create new guidelines which take into account mutual sexual enjoyment.� Females are supposed to recreate their sexual standards for men’s pleasure and they do. They have come to believe that they can achieve a vaginal orgasm, an orgasm which Koedt explains “does not exist.�
In Dworkin’s piece, she explores females in the role of pornography. Not only are they in porn for men’s pleasure but in the working field, they get paid less than men on average. Pornography was created for men’s sexual desires and fetishes and this demonstrates how females are treated poorly and placed in these films for nothing other than male pleasure. Dworkin states, “Woman as whore exists within the objective and real system of male sexual domination. The pornography itself is objective and real and central to the male sexual system.� This relates to Koedt’s article because in both cases: sex and pornography, women’s pleasures and desires are not considered. In both of these instances, they are merely placed in the act to be objects of pleasure for men, regardless of their perceptions and expectations of the situation.