Jean-Claude Piquard - A klitorisz csodálatos history

If we think about all the secrets, taboos and prohibitions that surrounded us in recent centuries, women's sexual pleasure is definitely one of them. However, in ancient times, they had a completely different opinion about this topic.
At that time it was possible to talk about it openly. Let's just look at what Ovid writes in the Metamorphoses: Teiresias, the later seer, was changed by the gods into a woman for seven years, so he could experience the sexual pleasure of both sexes. When Zeus asked whether women or men felt more pleasure, he clearly voted for women.
At that time, the clitoris was considered one of the most important sexual organs, and it was attributed an important role in fertilization. In the Middle Ages, no matter how surprising, the position of the church also reflected this. But as soon as it became clear that the clitoris "merely" completes sexual pleasure and contributes to "undeserved" pleasure, women's centuries-long journey to hell began. It was believed that if this organ is not needed for reproduction, it is not needed, so it became common practice to cut it out, which involved extremely great pain and risk of infection. The cruel interventions ended with a radical decrease in the population, because the women who underwent them were reluctant to have sex, and therefore the number of births dropped significantly.
A long time had to pass until the era of medically recommended orgasms arrived, until Sigmund Freud's psychology finally raised the issue of female sexuality back to its natural place. How will the injuries women have carried for centuries in their souls and bodies ever be healed? It depends only on us, adults who want a full life as women, and parents who raise women from girls.
In addition to disseminating knowledge and presenting interesting cultural history, this volume also serves the purpose of making women experience their own sexuality more self-consciously and complexly than before.

Jean-Claude Piquard (1952-) French sexologist, therapist and writer born in Montpellier. Several of his works have been published on this topic: The two types of sexual ecstasy, pleasure and orgasm (2006) and The good practice of sex (2018).