The Science of OrgasmThis award-winning book "offers a thorough compilation of what modern science, from biomechanics to neurochemistry, knows about the secrets of orgasm" ( Publishers Weekly). The coauthor of the international best-selling book The G Spot and Other Discoveries about Human Sexuality, Beverly Whipple joins neuroscientist Barry R. Komisaruk and endocrinologist Carlos Beyer-Flores to view orgasm through the lenses of behavioral neuroscience along with cognitive and physiological sciences. Covering every type of sexual peak experience in women and men from intense to phantom, this fascinating and comprehensive work illuminates the hows, whats, and wherefores of orgasm. The authors explain how and why orgasms happen, why they fail to happen, and what brain and body events are put into play at the moment of orgasm. They also describes the genital-brain connection, how the brain produces orgasms, how aging affects orgasm, and the effects of prescription medication, street drugs, hormones, disorders, and diseases. Winner of the 2007 Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough Book Award, given by the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality |
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The Science of Orgasm Barry R. Komisaruk,Carlos Beyer-Flores,Beverly Whipple No preview available - 2006 |
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Popular passages
Page 5 - Feels like tension building up until you think it can't build up any more, then release. The orgasm is both the highest point of tension and the release almost at the same time. Also feeling contractions in the genitals. Tingling all over.
Page 326 - Effect of buspirone on sexual dysfunction in depressed patients treated with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
References to this book
Systemic Sex Therapy Katherine M. Hertlein,Gerald R. Weeks,Nancy Gambescia No preview available - 2008 |