At a recent conservative conference, United States Sen. Ted Cruz suggested that liberal women are sexually unsatisfied because liberal men are too wimpy, implying that they will only achieve sexual satisfaction by submitting to domineering men. The idea that feminists are just angry women who need to find a man who can satisfy them sexually is an old trope.

However, today in The Conversation Canada, Tina Fetner of McMaster University outlines her research that shows feminist women are more likely to have sex that includes kissing and cuddling, and that is more attuned to their pleasure, than non-feminist women. “Feminists have sex just as often as non-feminists,” she writes, “and the sex they have is often loving and pleasurable.”

As Fetner puts it: “Thanks for your concern, Senator Cruz, but we’re doing just fine.”

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