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This fascinating and comprehensive book is the first to explore the complex biological process leading to orgasm. Here, sexuality researcher and nurse Beverly Whipple, coauthor of the international best-selling book The G Spot and Other Discoveries about Human Sexuality, 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.
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. No topic is left unexplored, as the book 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.
Covering every type of sexual peak experience in women and men?from intense to phantom -- this informative and entertaining work illuminates the hows, whats, and wherefores of orgasm.
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The Science of Orgasm
The Science of
Orgasm Barry R. Komisaruk, Ph.D. Carlos Beyer-Flores, Ph.D. Beverly Whipple, Ph.D., R.N.
The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore
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© 2006 The Johns Hopkins University Press All rights reserved. Published 2006 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 987654321 The Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4363 www.press.jhu.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Komisaruk, Barry R. The science of orgasm / Barry R. Komisaruk, Carlos Beyer-Flores, Beverly Whipple. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-8018-8490-x (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Orgasm. I. Beyer, Carlos. II. Whipple, Beverly. III. Title. ra788.k66 2006 613.9v6—dc22 2006013040 A catalog record