Pleasure And Danger. Exploring Female Sexuality

Delinquent Daughters explores the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America.

Decades have passed since the sexual revolution, but female sexuality is still being mythologized. When a scientist claimed in 2009 that the mysterious G-spot probably doesn't exist, it made newspaper headlines all over the world. Did this mean that the holy grail of female sexuality was a fiction after all? The filmmaker wondered why it is that news about female sexuality is still so controversial. And how come other research suggests that the much-discussed G-spot does indeed exist - and many ordinary women claim to have discovered it? So why can't everyone find it?