The Science fiction Of Sex

The book "The Science/Fiction of Sex" explores the differences in male and female orgasmic experiences and questions the idea of the penis as a separate entity. It also delves into the cultural constructs that influence our understanding of sex and gender, using feminist and poststructuralist theories. The author, Annie Potts, interviews men and women about their experiences with heterosexuality and uses deconstructive theory to analyze binary oppositions and power dynamics. The book has received praise for its originality and intelligence in discussing alternative theories of sexuality.

What can we learn from exploring the differences in male and female orgasmic experience? Is the penis an entity with a mind of its own? These issues and others, such as the popular portrayals of male sexuality as active and outwardly focused and female sexuality as passive and internally located, are discussed in The Science/Fiction of Sex . Contemporary feminist and poststructuralist theories of sex and gender are explored alongside an investigation of how people make sense of such concepts as heterosexuality, orgasm, sexual dysfunction, femininity and masculinity and safer sex practice. Annie Potts asks men and women about their actual experiences of heterosex. This interview material, combined with excerpts from sexological and medical texts and features from film and television, draws attention to the ways in which Western cultural constructs influence our ideas and experiences of the body, sex and gender. Potts also uses deconstructive theory as a textual tool, concentrating on how binary oppositions such as inside/outside and mind/body impact on our understandings of heterosex and affect the power relations between women and men. She also examines how the radical postmodern Review: Annie Potts has opened up new ways of understanding the open potential of all forms of sexuality - an exciting and crucial project for feminists of the future. - Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University The Science/Fiction of Sex is original, witty, extremely clever ... It has some remarkable chapters, such as the one on masculinity, which I would rate among the best I've ever read. The analysis of the alternative erotic-theoretical systems proposed by Irigaray and Deleuze are first-class pieces of writing ... daring and intelligent. - Rosi Braidotti, Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies, Utrecht University

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