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the vagina is not a highly sensitive area and is not constructed to achieve orgasm. It is the clitoris which is the center of sexual sensitivity and which is the female equivalent of the penis.

— Anne Koedt The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm (1970)

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Women have been defined sexually in terms of what pleases men; our own biology has not been properly analyzed.

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