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I think this woman is smart enough to know that putting a woman's right to sexual pleasure into the nation's Constitution is ridiculous and bound to generate outrage -- and that's exactly the point. To shake up the status quo, you need to do some shaking. It gets people talking and arguing and, in the end, thinking. That's part of how you make change.
I'm all for a national policy of highlighting that sex should be pleasurable for women. Sounds like a fantastic idea, every country should do this. Men who disagree are complete idiots (presumably they've never brought a woman to orgasm, so they don't know the difference).
But in the constitution? I mean, next to "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press..." (or whatever the Equadorian version is)? Make it a federal law or part of the school curriculum or something, but save the constitution for, you know, the form of government and the inherent rights of a free society and stuff like that (and yes, I know female sexual pleasure could be said to be a inherent right, but it's awfully specific to be enumerated, don't you think?) Maybe a more general "Everyone has a right to make decisions about their own body"-clause, that ensures includes the right to abortion, having consensual sex with anyone you want, etc. etc.
