Here’s Why the Successful Influencer Dr. Laurie Mintz Decided to Work on Empowerment of Women

Dr. Laurie Mintz is a popular name in the field of psychology and sex education. Her famous book ‘Becoming Cliterate’ has successfully drawn attention to the way sexism dominates our sex lives. She is raising a voice for women’s empowerment through a range of activities and making efforts to shut the orgasm gap between women and men for good.

As a tenured professor of Psychology of Human Sexuality at the University of Florida, she has spent decades teaching, studying, and writing about sexuality. She is credited with exposing the wide pleasure gap between women and men. . Today, she highlights the gap on various platforms as a teacher, speaker, author, and influencer.

Dr. Mintz decided to pursue her fight against society’s distorted sexuality norms largely because of everyday sexism faced by women. Whether in the boardroom or the bedroom, women are treated far from equal to men. It was particularly the language around sexuality that really bothered her; Dr. Laurie says, “The language we use to talk about sex both reflects and perpetuates the undervaluing of female sexual pleasure that is at the heart of the orgasm gap.” She thus took it on herself to change both the language we use when we talk about women’s sexuality, and the importance given to women’s sexual pleasure.

She has used speaking engagements on platforms like TEDx and her best seller book, Becoming Cliterate, to change the narrative around sexuality. The existing culture perpetuates overvaluing of male pleasure and devaluing of female pleasure. Dr. Mintz cites it as the leading cause of the orgasm gap. She beautifully and meticulously highlights the insidious sexism that seeped deeply into our sexual language.

Dr, Mintz says the use of the words ‘sex’ and ‘intercourse’ interchangeably, along with the word ‘foreplay’ as if it was merely a route to the finale, has ripped women of their right to orgasm. Foreplay includes the essentials to bring women to orgasm, but linguistics does not include it in ‘sex.’. She says, “Along these same lines, we call our entire genitals a vagina, therefore naming our genitals by the part most useful to men and linguistically erasing our most erotic organ. This is the type of insidious sexism in language that seems so normal that we often don’t even notice it.”

Dr. Mintz’s women empowerment efforts have made her one of the most prominent feminist authors. Her fight for women’s equality began as a freshie in college and continues till date at the age of 61. She likes to be referred to as the Sex Granny, and through wits and clits (pun intended), she is carving the path to a new sexual revolution. As Dr. Mintz says, ‘For people with clits, the revolution is Cuming.’

Be a part of Dr. Mintz’s journey on her Instagram @drlauriemintz. Also, check out her books here if you are despairing about the quality and quantity of your sex life.

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