You have some really valid points, and I'm glad you put them forth, because I thought about something similar, but I had trouble formulating it, so I stuck to my brief comment.
I guess what I think would be most valuable isn't "this is how two women have sex" but rather "this is how two women MIGHT have sex". I suspect that some of the reason people don't write those sorts of guides is that they would need caveats galore, but I think that's exactly why it's important to write them. So, yes, posts about plumbing and about rules of generality, but also posts about subjective views or even personal experience, whatever that might mean to a poster and depending on how personal they'd want to get.
It goes beyond just writing guides in a way, and feeds into body politics and the idea that we need to talk about our subjective experiences. Both to get a broader idea of what is normal, but also to get an idea of the ways other women's bodies differ from our own.
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Date: 2011-08-05 06:04 pm (UTC)I guess what I think would be most valuable isn't "this is how two women have sex" but rather "this is how two women MIGHT have sex". I suspect that some of the reason people don't write those sorts of guides is that they would need caveats galore, but I think that's exactly why it's important to write them. So, yes, posts about plumbing and about rules of generality, but also posts about subjective views or even personal experience, whatever that might mean to a poster and depending on how personal they'd want to get.
It goes beyond just writing guides in a way, and feeds into body politics and the idea that we need to talk about our subjective experiences. Both to get a broader idea of what is normal, but also to get an idea of the ways other women's bodies differ from our own.