Sex Yes, Intercourse Maybe
Thursday, October 2, 2008 13:46I do not wish the reader to feel I have anything against vaginal intercourse or penetration. I just do not feel it is appropriate for society to place so much emphasis on this one aspect of human sexuality. Sex is more than just intercourse. It is not appropriate to define heterosexuality as penile-vaginal intercourse. A couple that foregoes intercourse should not feel strange or question their sexual orientation. Couples who acknowledge they should not have children should not have to play Russian roulette with birth control. I just wish to introduce or acknowledge the possibility of the existence of a thirty-year-old woman who has been married for ten years, sexually active with a partner for fifteen years, orgasmic for twenty-five years through masturbation, who has never engaged in vaginal-penile intercourse. This does not mean she has never explored vaginal stimulation or penetration or forgone all forms of intercourse; she may enjoy anal intercourse immensely. This concept of female sexuality may seem pretty weird given our current social mores, but there is nothing unnatural about it.
Lesbians and Vaginal Sex
While I see heterosexual society’s emphasis on intercourse as inappropriate, I also believe the lesbian community’s frequent condemnation of vaginal penetration is inappropriate as well. The definition of lesbianism and lesbian sexuality has often been based solely on the concept that lesbians are women who do not have penile-vaginal intercourse. This is more a political statement than statement of fact. Lesbians are women who are sexually attracted to other women versus men and whom find emotional fulfillment in a relationship with another woman. What that female couple does as a couple should not have any bearing on their lesbian identity. I do not believe it is emotional, physically, or medically healthy for any woman to ignore or deny the existence of her vagina, or deny the possible sexual pleasures it can provide her. I certainly do not believe any society or social group has a right to deny her that.


