ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a cluster of meanings and topics in moral and political discussions referred to as "sexual liberation." Sexual liberation consists of ethical problematizations of proper sexual conduct in general and of individual ideals of the good sex life, and the relation to the sexual self, to a person's own desires, pleasures and experiences. The chapter focuses on men, beginning with a brief excursus on the figurations and meanings of masculinity and the man in the ethos of sexual liberation. The core issues in both orgasmology and radical feminism are connected to the nature, problems and liberation of women's sexuality, and their major concern tends to be women "becoming orgasmic." In the feminized world of sexual liberation, man and the masculine become shadowed, even outcast. The sexual and the phallic can be considered as two forms of subjectivization of desire, in other words, as forms of practicing "sexual liberty."
