Possibly this was rather more niche in its day...

[oursin]

Apparently there is some manifestation of women in popular music being explicit about female sexual pleasure? and wow, there is pulling out of fainting couches and waving of smelling salts.

Like this has never happened before?

Okay, apparently 'dirty blues', popular in the interwar period, had something of a revival in the sixties, was mostly Banned On The Radio Waves and only to be found on jukeboxes (and probably not in all establishments, at that).

So I daresay somewhat more under the radar?

Watch on YouTube

Lil Johnson, Press My Button, Ring My Bell

Comments

[kore]

OMFG have these people never heard of Bessie Smith?

[oursin]

Or Ma Rainey???

[ironed_orchid]

Ben Shapiro having conniptions isn't even schadenfreude worthy anymore, it's just business as normal. But yeah, right wing men proving they know nothing about sex is always funny.

[oursin]

'Ladies don't move', right?

Factoid from the Disco Era

[wordweaverlynn]

Anita Ward faked 27 orgasms for the recording of "Ring My Bell."

Re: Factoid from the Disco Era

[oursin]

Do these people think Diana Ross's 'Chain Reaction' was about a nuclear disaster?

[silveradept]

As it ever was: when a woman acknowledges not only the existence of sex, but that it might be pleasurable and desirable, patriarchal men must flock from the woodwork to declare that this is outside the bounds of acceptable, controlled-by-men sexuality and no self-respecting woman would ever openly admit that she likes sex. (Even as they insist that their own women in their relationships absolutely love sex with them and can't get enough of it.)