Thursday, February 22, 2007

Anyone else see The O Tapes?

I saw this documentary, and have mixed feelings about it. The women themselves are touching, funny, brutally honest, and sometimes heartbreaking about their sexuality, but the experts leave something to be desired. They implicitly trash Masters' and Johnson's assertion about female orgasms, and--if they are correct--they really need to give us some research to back up their conclusions.

The women themselves, I must say, don't help; most of them use Freud-era language to describe their sexual experiences. That shouldn't surprise anyone, though. Sex education in this country is practically nonexistent.

I also think there could have been more discussion of gay and bisexual women in this documentary.

On the positive side, every woman who watches The O Tapes will idenify with at least one of the other women, and probably with several of them; I did.