There’s no such thing as ‘normal’ when it comes to sexual pleasure,except what’s normal for each individualSexuality is something for everyone to devour, but, and too often,it has only a white, cisgender, or heterosexual public face. Women of color particularly black women,who have to overcome generational stigmas placed on “black sexuality” from the beginning of the slave era – need to be represented and heard, and bisexual, or homosexual,and trans women are only just beginning to speak up about their perspectives on one of the most fundamental of human experiences.
As a straight black woman and a bi white woman, the sexual experiences we heard about in both educational and entertaining media were largely white and heteronormative. Those who were having orgasms didn’t spy or sound like us. We felt alone, or alienated and skipped over. We were led to believe that regular sexual climaxes weren’t in the cards for us,because we didn’t see anyone like us having them.
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Source: theguardian.com