A Woman's Desire

From Samuel Taylor Coleridge .... "The man's desire is for the woman but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man."  

This quote was included in the A.Word.A.Day e-mail I get each day.  Fab new words every day, plus a great quote.   So I read this one and read it again and  paused and thought and disagreed and felt insulted and then recalled a few women for whom I thought this might be true and perhaps I should write a response and then a million other things happened, including the pump in my basement failing and flooding my basement with sewage, and I forgot all about this.   Until I got the weekly recap with feedback from the readers of A.W.A.D.    And here is one response to the Coleridge quote.   I thought my Skirt friends would enjoy it:

I will be surprised if you do not receive many more comments than mine to this outdated idea of women's desire. This may have been true in Coleridge's time, because of the corseting, if you will, of women's sexuality at the time, but surely studies during the past sixty years (Hite, Kinsey, Masters and Johnson) have disproved this. This octogenarian has lustily desired many men, whether or not they lustily desired me, and unless my experiences are very different from that of other women, and I doubt it, my desire was definitely for the man himself, and surely as carnal as his.

Yes ma'am!