Inferior: The True Power of Women and the Science that Shows It

by Angela Saini

In 1973 Sherfey published an incendiary work exploring female orgasms. It was entitled The Nature and Evolution of Female Sexuality. Her conclusion was that the female sex drive had been vastly underestimated, and that women are in fact naturally endowed with an insatiable sex drive. She believed that society itself was built around the demand to keep women’s sexuality in check: ‘it is conceivable that the forceful suppression of women’s inordinate sexual demands was a prerequisite to the dawn of every modern civilization and almost every living culture. Primitive woman’s sexual drive was too strong.’ Its enormous strength was matched only by the incredible force that men throughout history had deployed to restrain it.