Coming into Desire

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Notes

¹See, for example, the papers from Pornified, the Institute of Education Conference, December 1–2, 2010 http://www.ioe.ac.uk/36048.html and Harvey & Gill (2011).

²Of course Anaïs Nin, Frida Kahlo, and various lesbian novels signaled female desire, but it really did not hit mainstream discourse (or psychoanalysis) until the 1970s. Even Masters and Johnson's work and Helen Singer Kaplan were not widely taken up until the late 1970s.

³ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/05/women-bloggers-hateful-trolling

⁴Gross profit for the first nine months of fiscal 2011 of $821.5 million increased $219.6 million, or 36.5%, from $601.9 million in the first nine months of fiscal 2010, and gross margin expanded to 57.9%, an increase of 300 basis points as compared to 54.9% in the first nine months of fiscal 2010. While operating leverage in the meetings business was a contributor, the increase in gross margin was largely the result of the higher-margin WeightWatchers.com business, where cost of revenues is largely fixed, becoming a larger component of our revenue mix.

⁵Hence perhaps the popularity of pole-dancing classes, etc., and TV shows that instruct women how to be more sexually provocative.

⁶Meantime, our therapeutic tools and our capacities for self-investigation can enable us to explore the ways in which the cultural stories get inside us and meld with our personal stories as girls and women to derail the struggle for sexual subjectivity.