Botbol-Baum, Mylene
[UCL]
I will try in this short introduction to sketch the history of women’s orgasm as an
in between existential claim and biological trap of the reproductive function assigned
to women both by sexual and biological contract.
The aim of this paper addressed to clinicians is trying to set the limits of the medicalisation
of orgasm. The issue of women’s sexual pleasure remains a societal challenge
although the women movement led to women’s partial reappropriation of their
bodies affects. How one should then beyond psychoanalysis, address women public
and private affects on orgasm? Can it be defined as a capacity to relate to their body,
not according to any form of biological or social destiny but as an existential situation
or a singular project?
| Bibliographic reference |
Botbol-Baum, Mylene. Sexe, corps et affects des femmes. In: Louvain médical, Vol. 127, no. 8, p. 1-6 (octobre 2008) |
| Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/85100 |