Welcome to our new home!
Science, Sex and the Ladies (SSL) is both a 2014 movie (CELEBRATING ITS 10TH ANNIVERSAY THIS YEAR! - learn more) and a blog started in 2009 to document its production. Very quickly the blog evolved into a continuation of and expansion on the ideas, information, and activism presented in the movie - all related to the female orgasm.
This is SSL’s new home after moving the blog from Blogger to this site in March 2024. Look around and please always feel free to write me about anything at all. Click HERE if you want to know about the lady behind all this.
What you’ll find on this site: detailed summaries of scientific journal articles related to female orgasm; lady-gasm book reviews; critiques of depictions/discussions of female orgasm and masturbation in TV and movies; highlights of other orgasm equality activists; plus, arguments and discussions of why our misunderstanding of the female orgasm is harmful to both our sexual culture and to women’s lives in ways that are rarely acknowledged.
Things this site is:
an ever growing collection of lady-gasm related blog post and an attempt to organize them so they can be accessed by topic
a decade(s) long deep dive into the cultural and scientific depiction, discussion, and study of the female orgasm
a large and specifically focused collection of female orgasm based science and media resources that no one asked for but that I dearly hope people (much more influential than me) will find and use.
a pointed, hardline, anatomy-based indictment of our sexual culture’s deep-seeded fixation on penetrative orgasms. Spoiler: There’s no physical evidence for an orgasm caused by stimulation inside the vaginal canal (meaning - the inner clitoral structure, the G-spot, the vaginal walls, the cervix, etc.) in all of scientific literature…and the unwillingness as a culture to really acknowledge this is incredibly harmful. For Real.
a love letter to all the women and/or people who’ve ever had clits and vaginas**; for the unnecessary time and energy spent figuring, without any road map, how to reconcile their real life experiences and bodies with the deeply rooted and wildly inaccurate expectations placed on their desires, arousal and orgasm. They/we deserve better.
Thing this site is NOT:
sex advice
a short read (hey, ya can’t summarize and speak on a 10 page scientific research article in a few paragraphs…and, well, I do also tend towards being long-winded, so…)
** I have said ‘women’ a lot (and ‘ladies’ even more) in here over the past decade(s) with the assumption that a clit and vagina are present, but that’s not always the case. Please feel free to take whatever relates to your life or your body when I say women (or ladies) and throw away the rest. And if you are at all interested, I’d love contributions from people dealing with the world of ladygasms from a different cultural or bodily perspective than I have - Contact Me!
