Some literature prescribes female orgasm as forbidden individualized pleasure

Evidence

Lawrence does not want the woman to be tense in the search for pleasure, separated from the male by the spasm that jolts her; he deliberately refuses to bring her to orgasm; Don Cipriano withdraws from Kate when he feels her close to this nervous pleasure; she renounces even this sexual autonomy. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 503 (#complicates, via linked claim)

It is said that in India the husband, while fulfilling his conjugal duties, smokes his pipe to distract himself from his own pleasure and to make his wife’s last; in the West, it is more the number of “times” that a Casanova boasts of; and his supreme pride is to have a woman beg for mercy: according to erotic tradition, this is not often a successful feat; men often complain of their partners’ exacting demands: she is a wild uterus, an ogre, insatiable; she is never assuaged. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 997 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Female sexual initiation often reads as sacrifice mixed with fear rather than pleasure; Lawrence’s ideal denies woman even clitoral sexual autonomy in eroticism — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 503; Male-centered erotic traditions blame women for being insatiable despite male-centered pacing — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 997

Broader Connections

• Female sexual initiation often reads as sacrifice mixed with fear rather than pleasure #complicates (0.75)
• Lawrence’s ideal denies woman even clitoral sexual autonomy in eroticism #complicates (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 503
• Male-centered erotic traditions blame women for being insatiable despite male-centered pacing #complicates (0.70) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 997