{"id":50664,"date":"2018-10-10T10:13:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T09:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/?p=50664"},"modified":"2018-10-11T11:02:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T10:02:04","slug":"writing-the-female-sex-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mancunion.com\/2018\/10\/10\/writing-the-female-sex-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing \u2018The Female Sex (Education)\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u2018The Female Sex (Education)\u2019 or \u2018@the.f.sex<\/em>\u2019, on Instagram, is an educative platform which presents a discourse on the female sex, female sexuality, and the female body. <\/span><\/p>\n Focusing on the importance of satisfying female sexual pleasure, the Instagram page disturbs the relation between female sexual pleasure and the meaning of shame that is imposed onto this pleasure by societal\/power structures. @the.f.sex<\/em> also aims to provide both females and males with an awareness of the complexity of sexually arousing\/pleasuring a woman.<\/span><\/p>\n @the.f.sex<\/em> disturbs particular phallocentric discourses, such as those of the 18th-and-19th centuries, which idealise female sexual purity (virginity) and attempt to reduce female sexuality to a reproductive function. The power operative within this idealisation is a patriarchal desire\/demand to subjugate and debilitate the type of sexual pleasure which can be defined as \u2018feminine\u2019. This type of discourse has a major function: to stabilise the patriarchal principle of male domination over the female.<\/span><\/p>\n Negative definitions of female sexuality have been produced through the use of terms such as \u2018pathology\u2019, \u2018hysteria\u2019, \u2018mental illness\u2019, \u2018whoredom\u2019, \u2018sin\u2019, \u2018abjection\u2019 and \u2018impurity\u2019. Thus, shame is not a constituent property of female sexuality itself; shame is instead imposed onto female sexuality by these discourses. This signifies the phallocentric desire for the debilitation of female sexual pleasure and an attempt to condition females\u2019 consciousnesses to associate their own sexual bodies with shame and to repress their own sexual pleasure. <\/span><\/p>\n