Chapter 1: What is the fingering renaissance and why is it significant?
You're listening to a Mamma Mia podcast. Hello, it is Jessie Stephens here and this summer we have decided to curate your Outloud playlist. We have been bringing you some of our most popular subscriber episodes so that your holiday listening is sorted and, wow, we chose this one because it got such an enormous response from the Outlouders.
Now, this episode was a little bit spicy, so we are warning you, grab your headphones for this one. Maybe go for a private little walk in case there's little ears around. There's been something very specific happening on our screens over the past year, and boy, did we want to talk about it.
We deep dive into why this particular intimate digital act has been having a major moment and what this trend says about changing attitudes towards women's pleasure.
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Chapter 2: How have recent films portrayed fingering and women's pleasure?
Oh, God. Hello, we love you and welcome to a slightly rude episode, I'm going to say. It's about sex. And naughty. Yeah. Sealed section. It's our sealed section. Now, if you've been to the movies lately or watched a streaming show, you might have noticed that Hollywood's having what we're calling a fingering renaissance. Are we calling it that? I'm calling it that.
Chapter 3: What cultural shifts are influencing attitudes towards women's sexual pleasure?
Did you know that it's actually been coined as the finger innocence? The finger innocence.
I think that's true. It's like renaissance but with fingering. A few recent examples, Nicole Kidman's erotic thriller Baby Girl, you might remember, face down. If people haven't seen that yet, please go and see it.
It's so good.
It's so interesting. Yeah, it's really interesting. A lot of fingering in that.
Chapter 4: How does the rise of intimacy coordinators impact sex scenes in media?
Also Anne Hathaway's character in the movie The Idea of You when she's with that younger guy who's like a Harry Styles-esque character in the boy band and she meets him at a hotel and their first sexual encounter happens. starts with a really enthusiastic bout of fingering, which she likes a lot.
And also, not to be outdone, Bridgerton, with the famous carriage scene between Penelope and Colin, Nicola Coghlan's character, you might remember.
Not easy to get a finger in between all of those petticoats.
A lot of petticoats to get through. It's very true. Pantalons. It's true. What's interesting when we've been looking at the rise of fingering, and I've been thinking about it a little bit. Yeah, come on.
Chapter 5: What role does the female gaze play in modern sexual narratives?
Cultural critics. Fingering's back. And I think there's a couple of reasons for that. The first is that no one has to be nude. Both parties can be fully clothed, which is good for some of the parties involved might not want to be nude. Also, it's more safe for mainstream viewing. And then the other thing, of course, which is wonderful is this focus on female pleasure.
So do you think, because I was wondering why we're seeing more of this, and the obvious reason to me was that these are screenplays that are written by women. So when women are writing the sex scenes, their female pleasure is centred. I also wondered if it had anything to do with the rise of intimacy coordinators where a sex scene is now examined for a different
Chapter 6: Why are Gen X women reportedly having the best sex?
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I think that's so smart. Definitely. I also think in a way, as you said, Mira, about how it makes them a little bit safer. This isn't the case for like Baby Girl, which obviously had a lot of other sex going on. There's a little bit of plausible deniability. Like if you were watching Bridgerton.
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Like you either know what's going on in that scene or you don't. Do you know what I mean?
Chapter 7: How has the perception of sex changed across different generations?
So you can say to your kid, oh, she's just got an itch. Yes.
It's a little bit sort of safer. But I think the female gaze on these screenplays is definitely a big part of it.
There was a quote by the director of Baby Girl where she said that basically movies are full of scenes where we see a woman have an orgasm on screen that is anatomically not possible. Yes. Which is, I think, very, very true. Yes.
Like during penetrative sex all the time.
So 70 to 90% of women do not have an orgasm from penetrative sex.
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Chapter 8: What pressures do women face regarding sexual performance in today's culture?
But 100% of the ones on movies do. Exactly, exactly. And funnily, that's actually how Baby Girl starts, of course, is through her having an orgasm through penetrative sex, which we learn is not a real one, which is kind of what all of this sexual... fantasy is about.
So I think I've also noticed it in books I'm reading and I read almost exclusively books by women and certainly recently one of the big things people said about Sally Rooney was that she wrote a really good sex scene and of course you've got Miranda July and all of these women who are
writing sex very differently and they do put female pleasure front and centre, which is a really brave thing to do because we haven't seen a lot of it before, but it's like this is how it actually looks. I wonder too if there's something about fingering that feels... Nostalgic. Yes. Yeah. Okay.
So I wonder if this dynamic that we keep playing with where it's a young man and an older woman, I wonder if it's like meant to be a bit of a throwback to It reminds you of being young.
Yeah, exactly. I mean, not necessarily literally but culturally of you're at school.
Big experimenting.
You're a teenager and you're not allowed to go all the way. You're not allowed to have your clothes off. So it's all like furtive and frottage. We used to call it frottage when I was a teenager.
Lots of rubbing up against people. I think it's really hot because often when you graduate to P&V sex and oral sex, you leave that behind. And it's actually a great thing to maybe reintroduce back into the men's room.
There's terms for it. They call it hand sex, outercourse. Outercourse.
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