Apr 4, 2025 03:45 AM
https://iai.tv/articles/science-gets-sex..._auid=2020
INTRO: Today’s science of sex often reduces arousal and pleasure to pulse rates, brain waves, vaginal lubrication and other bodily metrics, prioritizing quantifiable data over subjective experience. This framework originated in the progressive sexual revolution of the 1960s – yet, as philosopher Paul Giladi argues, far from contributing to sexual emancipation, it risks leading us to disbelieve what people, and especially women, say about their own states of arousal. For true sexual liberation, we need to reclaim the erotic from scientific imperialism... (MORE - details)
INTRO: Today’s science of sex often reduces arousal and pleasure to pulse rates, brain waves, vaginal lubrication and other bodily metrics, prioritizing quantifiable data over subjective experience. This framework originated in the progressive sexual revolution of the 1960s – yet, as philosopher Paul Giladi argues, far from contributing to sexual emancipation, it risks leading us to disbelieve what people, and especially women, say about their own states of arousal. For true sexual liberation, we need to reclaim the erotic from scientific imperialism... (MORE - details)