THE
Cliterature
Club
JANUARY 2026
Friday 30th January, 7pm
READING:
Becoming Cliterate
Dr Laurie Mintz
ABOUT THE BOOK:
We’ve been thinking about sex all wrong. Mainstream media, movies and porn have taught us that sex = penis + vagina, and everything else is just secondary. Standard penetration is how men most reliably achieve orgasm. The problem is, women don’t orgasm this way. We’ve separated our most reliable route to orgasm - clitoral stimulation - from how we feel we should orgasm - penetration. As a result, we’ve created a pleasure gap between women and men.
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