Orgasm is considered by many to be an essential part of women's ideal sexual experiences. As a result, sexual liberation narratives have often advocated for the prioritization of women's orgasms - particularly during heterosex - framing them as a central indicator of "good," healthy, liberated sex. However, scholars have increasingly critiqued these narratives, arguing that they result in an orgasm imperative that has negatively impacted women's sexual lives. Perspectives that promote the prioritization of women's orgasm and those that warn against the negative repercussions strive for the same thing - to draw attention to women's sexuality in ways that will lead to more pleasurable, enjoyable, and equitable sex for women overall. Yet, together, they offer contradictory messages about the role that women's orgasms can or should play in women's sexual liberation. For example, one could argue that it perhaps makes sense to prioritize women's orgasms given that they often are highly pleasurable for women, center a unique form of embodied pleasure, and offer a supposedly clear objective for women and their men partners. On the other hand, such narratives frame women's orgasm absence as abnormal, concede to men's sexuality in problematic ways, and constrain more comprehensive possibilities for women's sexual pleasure. In this critical feminist review, I offer a summative outline of these and other contradictions, focusing on how narratives prioritizing women's orgasms can have simultaneous benefits and negative repercussions when it comes to (1) women's sexual pleasure, (2) the medicalization/pathologization of women's orgasms, and (3) heterosex norms.

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异性恋期间女性性高潮的优先次序：对女性性解放影响的批判性女权主义评论。


许多人认为性高潮是女性理想性体验的重要组成部分。因此，性解放叙事经常倡导优先考虑女性的性高潮——尤其是在异性恋期间——将它们视为“良好”、“健康、解放”性爱的中心指标。然而，学者们越来越多地批评这些叙述，认为它们导致了性高潮的必要性，这对女性的性生活产生了负面影响。促进优先考虑女性性高潮的观点和警告负面影响的观点都致力于同样的事情——以一种为整体女性带来更愉快、更愉快和更公平的性行为的方式引起人们对女性性行为的关注。然而，它们共同提供了关于女性性高潮可以或应该在女性性解放中发挥的作用的矛盾信息。例如，有人可能会争辩说，优先考虑女性的性高潮可能是有意义的，因为它们通常对女性来说是非常愉快的，以一种独特的具体快感形式为中心，并为女性和她们的男性伴侣提供了一个所谓的明确目标。另一方面，这样的叙事将女性性高潮的缺失定性为不正常，以有问题的方式让步于男性的性行为，并限制了女性性快感的更全面可能性。在这篇批判性的女权主义评论中，我对这些和其他矛盾进行了总结性概述，重点关注优先考虑女性性高潮的叙述如何同时产生好处和负面影响，当涉及到 （1） 女性的性快感，（2） 女性性高潮的医学化/病理化，以及 （3） 异性恋规范。