Sex therapist Joanne Baker is concerned that such a device could be used as a quick fix for sex problems, and says surgery is a drastic procedure. I think the approach is not dealing with the psychological, it's not as easy as with Viagra that's used for men. So you know it's something which I think women should think very seriously about before they actually undergo surgery. I think some women could because some of the women that I've worked with have been very, very depressed because they haven't been able to have orgasms. But I suppose having worked with women in that capacity for about seven or eight years, you know it's like through breathing, and through moving your body in a certain way and working with the psychological aspects.
All women can get to a stage of actually becoming orgasmic.
Feminist Beatrice Faust says talk of such a device is not a positive step for women. I think on the whole it's not positive. Western medicine has been inclined to set up norms and people have raced to try to fit those norms. I don't honestly think people are as wrapped up in orgasms as they were in the 1960s and 1970s. But certainly orgasm went through a phase where everyone's got to have one, and preferably if you're in a couple you should have simultaneous orgasms.