The Technology of Orgasm

The Technology of Orgasm
Author: Rachel P. Maines
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2001-06-15
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780801866463

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The author explores hysteria in Western medicine throughout the ages and examines the characterization of female sexuality as a disease requiring treatment. Medical authorities, she writes, were able to defend and justify the clinical production of orgasm in women as necessary to maintain the dominant view of sexuality, which defined sex as penetration to male orgasm - a practice that consistently fails to produce orgasm in a majority of the female population. This male-centered definition of satisfying and healthy coitus shaped not only the development of concepts of female sexual pathology but also the instrumentation designed to cope with them.


The Technology of Orgasm
Language: en
Pages: 210
Authors: Rachel P. Maines
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-06-15 - Publisher: JHU Press

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The author explores hysteria in Western medicine throughout the ages and examines the characterization of female sexuality as a disease requiring treatment. Med
The Technology of Orgasm
Language: en
Pages: 207
Authors: Rachel P. Maines
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-06-15 - Publisher: JHU Press

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The author explores hysteria in Western medicine throughout the ages and examines the characterization of female sexuality as a disease requiring treatment. Med
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Pages: 372
Authors: Barry R. Komisaruk
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-11-26 - Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM

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This award-winning book “offers a thorough compilation of what modern science, from biomechanics to neurochemistry, knows about the secrets of orgasm” (Publ
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Pages: 420
Authors: Jonathan Margolis
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-09 - Publisher: Grove Press

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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
The Case of the Female Orgasm
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Elisabeth A. Lloyd
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Why women evolved to have orgasms--when most of their primate relatives don't--is a persistent mystery among evolutionary biologists. In pursuing this mystery,