Lusty Legacy

HELEN GURLEY BROWN (1922 - 2012) was quite a character, an arkansas girl who made it big in the big city. Like many women born circa nineteen twenty, helen was considerably different, more liberal, in her attitudes concerning sex, and the role of women in society, than the women of her mother's generation.

Helen's mother, like all other american women born around eighteen ninety, would have never been seen in anything other than a full length dress; helen could be seen in anything, or nothing. A paragon of women's sexual liberation, she was.

Her book "sex and the single girl" was one of the shocking blockbusting myth busters of nineteen sixty two, along with rachel carson's "silent spring", which helped engender the environmental movement. Helen similarly helped endenger the women's lib movement.


There is a strong cultural tendency in america, largely because of puritanical christianity, to pretend that sex doesn't exist. Helen Gurley Brown illuminated for us the fact that it does exist, and can be used as a tool for advancement. She succeeded because, in america, capitalism trumps christianity.

At one point she recommened that women, when their man is in the midst of an orgasm, scream out loudly whatever they most coveted - money, material objects, whatever - that orgasming man will form a mental association between exquisite pleasure for himself with fulfilling woman's wishes.

This sounds a bit dubious, doesn't it? Really? One wonders whether it has ever been tried, and whether it has ever demonstrably worked. And, one wonders whether we all want to live in a world where such tactics are employed, where people think in such terms.

Like other great women's rights advocates, people like gloria steinam, Helen was not bashful about advocating  stridency and manipulation to even the gender playing field. "sex and the single girl" is the ultimate manual of how to have everything you want in life if you are an attractive single woman, by taking advantage directly of being - single, female, and attractive.

Women have always had control of sex, and man have always resorted to other means, money, mandated gender inequality, political pwer, to gain some measure of control over it. Helen's goal was to lessen the potency of those "other means". She seems to have succeeded admirably.

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