Considered taboo, inconceivable until quite recently, the idea of the female orgasm did not appear in everyday language until the 1970s. It was quickly turned against women in two different ways. Firstly, by telling women that if they did not have an orgasm, they were failures. Frigidity became almost synonymous with barrenness. But a woman failing to have an orgasm is not like male impotence: a frigid woman is not sterile. Nor is she incapable of sensuality. But instead of being regarded as a possibility, the female orgasm quickly became an imperative. That’s the thing about women, we always
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