The sociologist claimed that the near total absence of bidets across Middle America was highly instructive. And spoke volumes concerning female sexuality.
It seemed there existed a certain disconnect between the Middle American woman's near total obsession with her sex appeal--and with her need to use a certain bathroom feature. This fixture came with running water, and was similar to an ordinary toilet, only smaller and lower. In common use in Europe, the low, basin like fixture was straddled and used after sex to wash the genital and posterior areas, usually with water rising from a small fountain in the basin floor or side. The fountain, obviously, could be turned on and off.
This near total obsession with cosmetics and cosmetic surgery and near total indifference to, and absence of, a bidet in the bathroom of Middle America spoke volumes about sexuality, the sociologist concluded.
The broad mass of Middle American women, it seemed, led lives obsessed with sex appeal--but were largely indifferent to the act itself. It was something like...like women who did not plan on doing much cooking not needing dishwashers.
Ins and Outs on the Ups and Downs that include some Notes on the Cut, Thrust and Parry that is part of the Great Game--Sexual Politics. And encompassing too Single Men and Women and the Pleasures of Youth.
