Sexologists Can Infer A Woman’s History of Orgasms By The Way She Walks

This headline spread like wildfire through respected medical sites, not so respectable sex sites and blogs of the curious. Despite the sensationalism, few have bothered to investigate the validity of the research or the researcher. But there are reasons to doubt.

Sex Missionary Under Fire

Because of the difficulties of getting ethical approval in Britain for his research, Brody often uses European subjects….he is concerned about the tacit censorship of academics whose work does not fit the politically correct ideology of the left.

The immediate question would be: why do British professionals consider his research unethical? Perhaps because his conclusions vehemently contradict more reliable research. Perhaps the answer lies in his funding sources.

The first (of two) affiliations listed is the Catholic University of Leuven (Université Catholique de Louvain, Institut d’études de la famille et de la sexualité, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). Should it surprise us that “scientific” research affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) “proves” their theological beliefs are correct?

“I wasn’t surprised by my findings at all,” he says. “There are many reasons why it should be so. Evolution is not politically correct. It strongly rewards any behaviour which has even a trivial association with an increasing likelihood of passing on genes.”

If we substitute “evolution” with “Roman Catholic Church,” the meaning is the same: The only purpose of sex is procreation. The RCC is so pleasurable-sex phobic it mandates the “missionary” position: woman flat on her back, man above her. This position is the one least likely to allow her to orgasm while guaranteeing her partner will orgasm because he needs the friction created between his penis and her vaginal walls. This need is so intense there are entire segments of the sex toy industry dedicated to recreating a woman’s vagina for male customers.

Much of Brody’s research is aimed at “proving” this penile-vaginal obsession is just as necessary to women, despite all other medical facts to the contrary. The G-spot is the female equivalent to the male prostrate. Caressing the prostrate excites a sexual response in men in the same manner that caressing the G-spot in women excites a sexual response. Both stimulations can result in orgasm. The clitoral orgasm is the female equivalent to the penile orgasm because the clitoris is the female equivalent to the glands of the penis. So why don’t Brody and his fellow researchers condemn penile orgasm as immature and praise male orgasm stimulated through the prostrate as superior? The answer is obvious when the hidden agenda of religion is considered.

.A Brody study, entitled Women’s relationship quality is associated with specifically penile-vaginal intercourse orgasm and frequency, held a similar RCC theme:

“A growing empirical literature demonstrates that the only sexual behavior consistently associated with indices of better physiological and psychological function is the one sexual behavior relevant to potential gene propagation….As hypothesized, frequency of penile-vaginal intercourse correlated positive with Professional Recognition and Qualifications Committee (PRQC) dimensions: Satisfaction, Intimacy, Trust, Passion, Love and Global Relationship Quality. Noncoital sexual behaviors with a partner were uncorrelated with the PRQC dimensions. Masturbation frequency was inversely associated with Love….”

Brody seems unable to imagine a woman who is both in a loving relationship and enjoys masturbation. Any woman who has explored her own body knows the clitoris is the primary source of orgasm. This view is shared by lovers who have mastered the art of pleasing a woman. No woman has to choose one over the other unless they are pressured into believing the only purpose of sex is procreation, but biology effectively refutes this extraordinary claim.

The clitoris is the only bodily organ that has no purpose other than sexual pleasure. This fact causes a conundrum for RCC theological hardliners and junk-science researchers like Brody. If the theology is correct about women’s sexuality, then God is not omnipotent because he created the clitoris and clitoral orgasm. If God is omnipotent, then he did not err in creating the clitoris and clitoral orgasm. No matter how much research Brody engages in and how many articles he writes, he cannot overcome this biological reality.

But he doesn’t stop with PVI orgasm nonsense in his obsessive quest to “prove” sex is only for procreation. The RCC has long opposed all forms of birth control, including the condom. Brody works hard to prove this theology correct too. The abstract for a Brody study, titled Condom use for penile-vaginal intercourse is associated with immature psychological defense mechanisms, contained this blurb:

“The objective is to examine the hypotheses that use of immature psychological defense mechanisms correlates directly with frequency of condom use during PVI, but inversely with frequency of PVI without condoms. An additional aim is to examine the independent contributions of frequency of PVI with and without condoms, and different triggers of orgasm, in predicting the use of immature defense mechanisms.”

Most women enjoy sex more when they aren’t worried about getting pregnant. Why would they use any defense mechanisms when their enjoyment is higher? Could it be that Brody’s language is aimed at making women feel guilty and ashamed for wanting to be in control of their sexual options and reproductive choices? His continued use of “immature” implies women who are sexually independent lack maturity, a quality we all strive to acquire. Literally interpreted, this would mean any woman who is not compliant with the male desire for vaginal intercourse is a child. His repeated use of “healthy relationship” only in relation to PVI is meant to make sure the woman doesn’t stray from her man, which is Biblical patriarchy in action.

But the most egregious use of pseudo-science reinforces the RCC’s stance concerning AIDs. The RCC has consistently used their UN seat to block the use of condoms for AIDS prevention. Brody undertook several other studies aimed at “proving” AIDS is mainly confined to Sub-Saharan Africa and does not involve penile-vaginal intercourse. In Lack of evidence for transmission of human immunodeficiency virus through vaginal intercourse, Brody asserted:

Everybody thinks that unprotected vaginal intercourse with an HIV-positive person will put you at risk for becoming HIV-positive yourself. This just isn’t the case….politically correct thought…impedes scientific progress when taboo themes, regardless of their validity, cannot be pursued.

The base rate of lying (or social desirability responding) by itself is sufficient to account for the small percentage of Americans and Europeans claiming heterosexual transmission from partners not known to be intravenous drug users….A total liar rate of 5% is more than adequate to account for all the cases of HIV trans-mission and AIDS which are classified as heterosexual.

…[a risk-free American who has a single act of unprotected coitus with a random risk-free partner is about as likely to become HIV-positive as] be struck multiple times by lightning in one year, or win several state lotteries.

Lying by respondents, their inability to recollect the details of sexual activity, and the intellectual limitations of some respondents resulted in seropositive subjects failing to report anal intercourse or iv activity. Such failure often resulted in attributing HIV spread to vaginal intercourse.

Translation: Women who claim they became HIV positive through PVI are either liars, suffering from amnesia or mentally feeble. Does not the Bible discredit women as witnesses? Can Brody’s disdain for women be anymore apparent?

Positive Nation chose to investigate Brody’s claims that, if wrong, could endanger thousands of people.

Question: How did HIV come to afflict Africa so much more than other parts of the world? Is the ferocious spread of the virus at least partly due to unsafe medical practices, such as using unsterilized needles for injections, rather than sex?

The controversy has now been reopened by the publication of three papers in the International Journal of STDs and Aids. The three main authors, two STI doctors, David Gisselquist and John Potterat, and medical psychologist Stuart Brody have in the past questioned the importance of vaginal intercourse in spreading HIV in the USA. What is new in the latest papers are the extraordinary figures they estimated for the proportion of HIV spread by unsafe medical practices in Africa – anything from 45 to 65 per cent of cases.

Catherine Hankins, the Chief Medical Officer at UNAIDS took direct aim at Brody and his fellow researchers in answer to their assertions:

“We all agree medical safety should be on the agenda, but I think these guys are completely unaware of what their impact might be in Africa. A woman is trying her best to get her man to use condoms and to get immunizations and medical care for her child. How’s she going to react if she’s told condoms may not be necessary, but is scared off taking her kid to the doctor?

In any case, she says, Gisselquist’s arguments don’t stand up. “We estimate that 25 per cent of injections in Africa are unsafe. But in Asia 50 per cent are unsafe. There’s a much bigger culture of getting vitamin shots from a stall in the marketplace there. Why didn’t Asia get the big epidemic first?”

Question: But even with STIs, how do you account for the extraordinary difference in heterosexual prevalence?

As Hankins surmises, in some cultures what you do with your sexual partners over time is different. In the West we tend to be serially monogamous. In Africa, if you’ve had sex with someone at some point, the door isn’t considered closed on picking up on that relationship again.

“Take a middle-class African businessman. He has had five women – nothing excessive. But the pattern we find is that he has a wife. He also has an on-off affair with an office colleague. He also has what the French call a ‘deuxième bureau’ – a mistress who might have had his child. And once a year he goes back to his home village and has sex with his original village sweetheart. Then he gets HIV from a bar girl on a business trip. Within a year he may have infected four other women. Now, if I’ve had five sexual partners and catch HIV from the fifth, as a western woman I’m unlikely to return to the other four and infect them!”

Hankins also refers to studies of prostitutes in Nairobi which have shown time and again that if clients got an STI from a prostitute with HIV they were at least twice as likely to get HIV at the same time than if they didn’t catch an STI.”

The themes from all of these Brody studies reinforce the RCC’s contention that sexual activity should be for procreation only. The last is aimed at justifying their interference in AIDS prevention efforts under the guise that condoms block conception, therefore are immoral.

This isn’t the first time the RCC has indulged in pseudo-science to propagate their unreasonable demands concerning women.

A lifelong Catholic, Ambroise Paré, considered one of the best doctors in 16th century France, claimed the female body was imperfect in relation to the male. “…. the hottest and driest seed begets the male and the coldest and wettest seed the female … As humidity is less efficient than dryness, the female is formed later than the male … [and] if feminine sexual organs are internal, it is due to the idiocy of her nature which has not managed to externalize them, failing to place those parts outside as with men.” (Tertuliano, quoted by Jean Delimaux, in La Peur en Occident)

St. Thomas Aquinas, 13th-century Catholic theologian, also presented a pseudo-scientific explanation as to why women deserved to be subjugated: ‘As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active force in the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of woman comes from a defect in the active force or from some material indisposition, or even from some external influence’ [Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica,Q92, art., Reply Obj.]

The very term “seed” illustrates the ignorance behind RCC theology. During the Biblical era, sexual beliefs centered around the planting of seeds in their fields. The fields allowed the seeds to grow to mature plants but did not otherwise contribute to the formation of the species (ie corn). They transposed those observations onto human sexuality: Men planted their seed in women who functioned as a fertile field functioned in growing their crops. The mother did not, per their beliefs, contribute to the genetic formation of the fetus.

The underlying ignorance of female anatomy continues in religious agendas meant to keep women subjugated to male needs. It’s time to call these studies funded by and catering to the RCC by their true name: bogus.

Sister article: Read more about Freud and unproven vaginal orgasm theories

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