Week Eight
In the articles we read this week I had similar feelings for both Koedt's and Dworkin's pieces. I felt reading both essays that they were written in the belief that the gender binary existed, and possibly that even a sexuality binary existed. Koedt’s piece led me to these feelings because the essay was based on the belief that women have sex with men. (excluding a small paragraph at the very end of the article) Koedt doesn’t detail other important aspects in sexual activity (that are also important to orgasms) such as, mental stimulation and masturbation. Koedt’s essay is based only on the fact that women have and want to have sex with men. She over looks bisexuals, homosexuals, pansexuals, etc. Likewise, in Dworkin’s piece she does the same thing. Dworkin looks at pornography as something that only men view and a tool that men use to oppress women. Dworkin never discusses porn made for women by women (although this may not have existed at the time) or porn viewed by homosexuals. Dworkin’s essay leaves out a wide variety of porn and an even wider variety of people. This being said, these articles support each other. Koedt’s view of the vaginal orgasms being a myth works strongly to support Dworkin’s view on pornography. Both articles view women as being sexual oppressed. Perhaps a lot of the flaws in the articles are because of the dates of these articles, but either way these two binary based articles compliment each other quite nicely.