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 …

This article looks into the art of male sexuality. Its starting point is the traditional biological
focus on male sexuality, which has narrowed the understanding of male sexuality. Through …

Women's orgasms have long been subject to vociferous scientific debate, but over the last
10–15 years a small but growing body of largely feminist qualitative research has begun to …

This article presents a feminist discursive analysis of orgasm, focusing on the transcripts
from discussions with women and men in Aotearoa/New Zealand regarding the meanings …

Sexual orgasm moved to the periphery of human physiology. The new conceptualization of
the female orgasm, however, was but formulation of a more radical eighteenth-century …

In this paper we discuss the potential for developing a femi nist approach to women's sexual
embodiment via an exploration of hetero sexual sexuality. We contest both pre-social …

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 is a “goal” of much sexual activity, and a source of potentially intense pleasure and
fulfillment, yet can be fraught with difficulty or distress. Relatively little social science …

Gender scholars have addressed a variety of gender gaps between men and women,
including a gender gap in orgasms. In this mixed-methods study of heterosexual Canadians …

Positioned as the 'peak'of sexual experience, orgasm is packed with sociocultural meaning.
Exploring the construction of orgasm in Cosmopolitan magazine in the context of the shift …