O The Intimate History of the Orgasm

by Margolis, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780802117861
• ISBN10: 0802117864
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-30
• Publisher: Grove Press

Summary

Orgasm is one of society's most compelling shaping forces-and most of us probably think that we are living in its golden age. But are we? The history of the orgasm is as elusive as orgasm itself can be, for sex rarely makes it into the historical record.

Table of Contents

The sexiest primate	p. 1
Coming, coming, gone	p. 13
Herstory	p. 52
Afterglow	p. 69
The way we were	p. 83
The evolutionary paradox	p. 102
Orgasm BC	p. 133
Sex and the city state	p. 155
Orgasm in the Orient	p. 182
Faith, hope and chastity : orgasm in the early Christian world	p. 206
Orgasm in the Middle Ages	p. 224
The foundations of Victorian prudery : the orgasm from the late Restoration to 1840	p. 249
A tale of two sexes? : the orgasm from Victoria to health & efficiency	p. 274
The orgasm from Freud to Lady Chatterley	p. 303
The orgasm comes of age : from Kinsey to the swinging sixties	p. 321
A little coitus never hoitus : from fear of flying to sex and the city	p. 344
Epilogue : how was it for us?	p. 385
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