“Throughout its first season, Sex Education proves that it doesn’t only want its female characters (and viewers) to feel ownership over their bodies — it also wants teenage girls to take pride in enjoying sex and feeling pleasure.”— Isabella Gomez, teenvogue.com
“Many people don’t like being touched if they are angry, but women seem to have more trouble than men with arousal if they are upset.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“The woman literally often can’t take an intimate touch if her lover has recently been verbally disrespectful, or has failed verbally to soothe 'the Goddess in her' at some point beforehand, priming the release of oxytocin and vasopressin in her body and preparing the parasympathetic nervous system t…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“The full melting response or “high orgasm” in women—which I would define (though our language around female sexual response is so inadequate) as that kind of orgasm that most intensely induces the most complete possible trance state and that most involves all the body systems, so that afterward the…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Gradually, I reexperienced the sense of deep emotional union, of postcoital creative euphoria, of joy with one’s self and with one’s lover, of confidence and volubility and the sense that all was well in some existential way, that I thought I had lost forever.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“So it was not just that orgasm might heighten creativity in women; maybe creativity also heightened orgasm.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“This biological, evolutionary connection for women of possible ecstasy to emotional security has implications that cannot be overstressed. Relaxing allows for female arousal.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Many of the signals that either stoke or diminish female desire have to do with the female brain’s question: Is it safe for her?”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“The female body reacts in the same way to “bad stress” whether the context is the birthing room or the university or the workplace. If the female brain senses that an environment is not safe, its stress response inhibits all the same organs and systems, regardless of setting.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Female sexual pleasure, rightly understood, is not just about sexuality, or just about pleasure. It serves, also, as a medium of female self-knowledge and hopefulness; female creativity and courage; female focus and initiative; female bliss and transcendence; and as medium of a sensibility that feel…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Female sexual satisfaction isn’t just important on a personal level — it’s an important factor in the overall well-being and happiness of a relationship.”— Rachel Khona, thoughtcatalog.com
“Boys learn not to worry about girls’ pleasure, and when girls and women have sexual encounters that don’t feel good — whether they’re just unsatisfying or actively abusive — they’re primed to accept that’s just how sex is.”— Jaclyn Friedman, vox.com
“But the most damaging thing that happens when we leave pleasure out of sex ed is that we allow girls to go on thinking that sex is something that’s not really for or about them.”— Jaclyn Friedman, vox.com
“Consent education does something else transformative: It tells girls that sex is supposed to be for them.”— Jaclyn Friedman, vox.com