>When considering the abject conditions of marital or extramarital
>sexual
>relations, one must keep in mind the political constraints which
>render said
>relations, if not moot, then, as Jeremy Calter noted in his extensive
>study
>of the economic aspects of the penis consensually entering the vagina,
>"The
>Exchange Rate of Heterosexual Sex On The Open Market of Desire" (Page
>After
>Page Press, 1981 -- "A veritable trove of charts, graphs, and explicit
>photos that makes the sex/econ case stimulating to consider,"
Feminist Theory, I believe, had a great run down of the dildo wars that broke out at a women's studies conference, complete with photos of the paraphenelia. It was almost as good as a Good Vibrations catalog!
Kelley