Casey wrote:
> bluesmama wrote:
>
> > Casey wrote:
>
> >>	You are correct, you *don't* know much about men's reproductive
> >>appratus...both men and women can be forcibly stimulated to
erection
> >>(men), auto-lubrication (women) and orgasm (both) against their
> >>wills...for example, consider the simple fact that almost 80% of
> >>raped women auto-lubricate (an action associated with sexual
excitation)
> >>and about 30% experience an orgasm during the rape...is an erection
and
> >>subsequent orgasm in a man any different ?
> >
> > I freely admit my own lack of knowledge of men's reproductive
systems
> > and thank you for giving me more information.
> >
> > Auto-lubrication in this case is a protective response by a woman's
> > body, not a function of sexual excitation. I wasn't aware of the
> > statistics you quoted, where are they from?
>
> 	Equating auto lubrication of a woman's vagina to a "defense"
mechanism
> is simply incorrect and saying that this is a defense mechanism is
> simply an attempt to anthropomorphize an automatic response to
stimulus
> into a reasoned response to stimulus...the vagina has no way of
knowing
> whether it's being stimulated with the consent of the woman or
whether
> it's "under attack" and is simply responding to a physical stimulus.
>
> ...Ken

Some women who have been raped report their vaginas became lubricated
even as they feared for their lives -- and a good thing too, for the
lubrication prevented them from being ripped apart -- but women almost
never have orgasms during rape, male fantasies notwithstanding.
http://condor.depaul.edu/~mwilson/multicult/clitoris.html



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