Yet again, t’was a revelation reading BOTH pieces this week as well as letting it sink in that both were written in 1970. I found The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm by Anne Koedt to be so enlightening regarding this topic and it makes me feel ridiculous that this information is still essentially hidden away as I feel even in today’s age, women may not know that the vaginal orgasm does not exist. I find that week after week once I’m done reading, I just experience moments of utter shock with the knowledge I receive and then immediately wanting the whole world to make these changes already so I’m left to feel utterly overwhelmed. Why are things still like this?! It made me legitimately sad to see in writing how even in sexual pleasure, women are oppressed. In my 34 years of life, I’ve obviously gotten to know my self in this area of life and considered myself pretty knowledgeable especially on my preferences but there was still so much that hit home in reading things like the standard sexual positions in heterosexual intercourse is mainly for the mans pleasure and women’s needs are just ignored. It’s astounded me to realize that I’ve been participating in this because again, it was ingrained culturally and subliminally through society since I was born. It’s finally confirmed that I am not crazy for having my own realizations that the actual act of just vaginal sex is not a revelation at all but I’m annoyed that so many of us are still lost in the unknown and most likely feeling inadequate and dissatisfied. Pat Mainardi’s The Politics of Housework also posed as such an enlightening paper. I loved how it was written and how she made her points very clear as she gave such relatable “MEANINGS” to each of her examples of things that will come out of men’s mouths concerning housework.