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Orgasmic Bodies: The Orgasm in Contemporary Western Culture

open access: yes, 2015
Orgasmic Bodies explores how bodily experiences of orgasm are worked up as present/absent, complicated/straightforward, too slow/too fast, fake or real, in the doing of masculinities and femininities. Engaging with both science and popular culture it examines the meanings given to orgasmic bodies in contemporary heterosex.
Frith, Hannah; id_orcid
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Orgasmic Epilepsy

Epilepsia, 1988
Summary: We studied a 41‐year‐old woman who had nocturnal somatosensory seizures followed by orgasm. The interictal EEG showed discrete left central parietal region paroxysmal activity that markedly increased during sleep. Eight electroclinical seizures were recorded during sleep polygraphic recording.
J, Calleja, R, Carpizo, J, Berciano
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The psychodynamics of orgasm

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2002
Orgasm itself, along with its specific psychodynamic, has stimulated few reflections and little research in the psychoanalytical field to date. In this regard, perspectives relating to orgasm are generally placed within a wider context covering desire, arousal and, of course, satisfaction.
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Brain Activity Unique to Orgasm in Women: An fMRI Analysis

open access: yesJournal of Sexual Medicine, 2017
Background Although the literature on imaging of regional brain activity during sexual arousal in women and men is extensive and largely consistent, that on orgasm is relatively limited and variable, owing in part to the methodologic ...
Barry Komisaruk, Eleni Frangos
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Explanation as Orgasm*

Minds and Machines, 1998
I argue that explanation should be thought of as the phenomenological mark of the operation of a particular kind of cognitive system, the theory-formation system. The theory-formation system operates most clearly in children and scientists but is also part of our everyday cognition. The system is devoted to uncovering the underlying causal structure of
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Infrequent orgasms in women

Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 1992
Out of a sample of 2,425 gynecological patients aged 21-40 and married for at least one year, three groups were selected according to the frequency of coital orgasm. The first, orgastic, group contained 1,266 (52.2%) orgastic women, the second group included 466 (19.2%) patients with infrequent orgasms, and the third group consisted of 151 (6.2 ...
J, Raboch, J, Raboch
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Types of Female Orgasm

The Journal of Sex Research, 1972
The controversy about clitoral versus vaginal orgasms was discussed in Chapter 10. In this article, the Singers offer a new typology of orgasm, which tries to integrate recent physiological research with women’s subjective experience of orgasm. While the authors’ typology has not gained widespread acceptance, this article is valuable for its careful ...
Josephine Singer, Irving Singer
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Orgasmic Disorders

Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology
Aim: To describe orgasm disorders in women. Results: Orgasmic problems are prevalent in women, and many experience distress related to the condition. The problem often co-exist with other sexual disorders and can be caused by many biopsychocial factors.
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Orgasm in female primates

American Journal of Primatology, 1981
AbstractThe major genital responses of arousal in women are vasocongestion, resulting in tumescence of the vaginal walls, and vaginal lubrication, facilitating penile intromission and thrusting. During orgasm, several involuntary muscular reactions occur, the most adaptive being in the outer third of the vagina and the uterus.
M L, Allen, W B, Lemmon
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An orgasm is… who defines what an orgasm is?

Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 2004
One of the marked differences between men and women is the relative ease by which most men can achieve an orgasm compared to the greater difficulty for a considerable percentage of women.
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