Ahem.
Posted on 09/03/2006 7:49:20 PM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL
'If you want to find true happiness, just fake it'
In her latest book, the feminist icon Fay Weldon has caused a sensation by turning the beliefs of the sisterhood upside down. By Amelia Hill Amelia Hill Sunday September 3, 2006
Observer Telling women not to expect orgasms but to fake them, and to praise their partner lavishly afterwards, is not advice normally associated with a woman who has been in the vanguard of feminism for four decades.
Nevertheless, Fay Weldon gives short shrift to the views for which feminists have fought so bitterly over the years. In her latest book, she not only warns high-flying women that they should expect to end up single, she also suggests that sexual pleasure may be incompatible with high-powered careers and that women should simply accept they are less capable of being happy than men.
'Eighty per cent of women only sometimes - or never - experience orgasm. Facts are facts and there we are. Deal with it,' she writes in What Makes Women Happy?, to be published this month by Fourth Estate.
According to Weldon, sensible members of the sisterhood should, therefore, follow the example so graphically set by the actor Meg Ryan in the 1989 movie When Harry Met Sally, and fake orgasms whenever necessary.
'If you are happy and generous-minded, you will fake it and then leap out of bed and pour him champagne, telling him, "You are so clever" or however you express enthusiasm,' she says. 'Faking is kind to male partners ... Otherwise they too may become anxious and so less able to perform. Do yourself and him a favour, sister: fake it.'
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.guardian.co.uk ...
not to brag, but none of the women i've ever been wth have had that problem..... LOL
I'm a man, and I didn't either until my wife got me into it. It's one of those things that you don't appreciate until you experience a bunch of it.
OK, but I don't know where he'd sleep, my hubby and I pretty much take up the whole bed.
;-)
It sure is. And most husbands would welcome the chance to help their wives study.
She would need to be capable of intimacy first, which she clearly hasn't been for quite some number of years now.
"No dear, that dress does NOT make you look fat!"
LOL..
I think mad as hell was joking....
Between the lines, she's saying that finding a true "soul" mate in a man, husband and lover, are incompatible for women. So stop trying to alienate half of the voting population who actually bother to pay attention and vote.
>>I think she is faking her numbers as well.
82.5% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
And Webb never knew?
I'm betting on this being the most tasteful thread EVER!
"**The funny thing is that I fake too. She never can tell.**
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"Then she must be the most stupid woman alive or else when she cleans herself she is just " Dusting".
- He was making a joke, and a rather good one at that. You must have locked your funny bone away in your dust bin. (Another joke - in case you're wondering.)
Oh wait, I'm a man.
Many women have called it my funny bone.
Funniest thing they've ever seen.
No cuddling - just some Advil and a hot shower.
Ask my husband.
;-)
Ahem.
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