I have been told before that I am far too smart for my own good--which I always assumed meant that I think I know everything when really I totally don't and someday that's going to bite me in the ass. It has also meant that I analyze things to death, that I insist I am correct and cling to my rightness righteously to the point of giant blow-outs, and that I have a sassy mouth for which I was about to be grounded. It has never before meant, and never before did I think it would mean, that I am just way too intelligent and educated to have good sex. That's what a German survey suggests, anyway--that 62 percent of educated women had difficulty having orgasms.

Of course, I'm skeptical about this survey--a small sample; it's just a questionnaire given by a lifestyle magazine; it's hardly scientific or conclusive and is filled with hastily drawn and probably extremely shaky correlations that have nothing to do with causation; and I am taking this very personally, I suppose, because I've got a graduate degree and I don't have any difficulties with orgasms. Though maybe it's because I screw my brains out. Ha!

But mostly, this survey worries me a lot, because it makes for the kind of story that's ripe for spinning into the quick and easy sexist stereotypes that make you angry (or should)--the uptight brain versus the dumbass blonde with her knees behind her ears, the frigid smarty pants versus the ditzy good-time girl, the pervasive idea that a smart, educated woman can't really enjoy sex, or talking about it or thinking about it, which was pretty prevalent, as our smart commenters point out, not all that long ago--and still too frequently crops up.