Women's Rights! Or lack Thereof

All women know or should know about the horrors sister women face in some Middle Eastern and other Islamic lands. Beheadings, hangings, stonings, honor killings, banishment, being second, third or even fourth wives, wearing stifling clothes in hundred plus degree heat and so forth. But did you realize things weren’t much better for women right here in America. For sure, they stopped burning witches by the eighteen hundreds and arranged marriages have mostly gone by the wayside, but women were still second class citizens and still are even today by some standards.

Equality has always been a struggle. A hundred and thirty years after men and fifty-five years after freed slaves—men only—received the right to vote, women were finally allowed to vote—only ninety stinking years ago!
But voting wasn’t the only issue. Enjoying sex was supposed to be the exclusive domain of men. Respectable women simply didn’t enjoy sex. Which takes me to the next issue, women’s occupations.

Women seldom worked with or alongside men when they could even find work. There wasn’t much work for women and women seemed, throughout the history of our country, to be relegated to work that was considered beneath men. Seamstresses, maids, nannies, secretaries, nurses and teachers.

Teachers were especially discriminated against, their personal life being forever under scrutiny. In most cases, until the sixties, women teachers were not allowed to get married, have babies or even DATE! They could be fired for dating and sex was simply not an option. It makes me wonder how many teachers sought sexual favors within their own ranks and gender as their only recourse.

Regarding sex, the sixties seemed to be a defining moment when it came to sex. Before then, it was to be considered dirty by women and was tolerated in marriages as a wifely duty. Can you believe it? Women weren’t supposed to like and want sex. Why, the hell, would men not want women to enjoy sex when they themselves were on a constant search for it?

Well they didn’t and many still don’t, but the of idea of free love and the advent of birth control pills turned into the sexual revolution for women—thank God. Women were finally free to follow their libido and until the eighties when AIDS curbed things somewhat, one night stands, singles bars and disco became the mantra of the seventies and early eighties.

Have women finally reached equality? Not quite. Working women still only make three quarters of what their male fellow worker makes. But at least they can pick up a three pack of condoms at Walgreens, go to their favorite night spot, drown their inequality sorrows on serial Strawberry Daiquiris and eventually, if they want, hook up with three strapping studs. Mmmm! Just like in the ebook they finished.

This editorial is a reprint of a blog that was posted last October. I hoped you liked it. All comments are welcome.

Speaking of just finished eBooks, I'd like to tell you about a couple of mine. Warning there're explicit sexual descriptions in most of my work.
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Sister Laurel & the Atheist a hillarious romantic comedy is an exception
Buy link: Sister Laurel and the Atheist.

BLURB
Wildly attracted to each other, can a beautiful, shy sister and a devilishly handsome atheist fall in love and find happiness despite their differences?

It was love at first sight. That’s what the lovely, shy Sister in Waiting Laurel, and the devilishly, handsome Julian Peters both agree. But is their overpowering love and attraction enough to allow this unlikely couple to overcome the obvious societal obstacles plus the differences between their own core beliefs to make a life together?

Sister Laurel & the Atheist is a cute, humorous and oh, so, romantic story.



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DUPED! A romantic comedy with a paranormal twist.
but link: DUPED!

A suicide bomber couldn’t blow newlywed, Jamilla Turner Randle’s, idyllic life to smithereens any better, than a call from her husband’s other wife—Jeanette—did, “Lady, you have been duped!”

Seeking succor, Jamilla visits her best friend Sal. With his help, Jamilla retains Letta Storm, a pit-bull of an attorney, who likens herself to the perfect storm, to straighten out her life.

At a barbeque thrown by Sal, Jamilla meets Tony. She feels an instant, undeniable, compelling bond with Tony, however after her marriage fiasco, she’s reluctant to trust her judgment regarding men.
Nevertheless, the attraction is too strong to be denied and with Tony’s patient persistence, her heart begins to warm.

The three of them begin to pick up the pieces of Jamilla’s life and in the process discover secrets even she didn’t know she had.
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NAKED RESEARCH is about a popular woman author who writes erotic romance novels.

Rebecca Roth, an author of erotic romance novels, writes from experience. Except her latest book is about something she has never experienced--a ménage a trois.

Seeking to expand her horizons, she visits a popular cocktail lounge and runs into Kevin MacCloud, a man’s man and a woman’s Lothario. Sparks fly between them. She wants him desperately, and the feeling is mutual, but she needs a second lover. Fortunately, Vince, his roommate with movie-star looks, is at home and willing to please.

A Siren Erotic Romance