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, Elisabeth Lloyd arrives at another: How could anything as inadequate as the evolutionary explanations of the female orgasm have passed muster as science? A judicious and revealing look at all twenty evolutionary accounts of the trait of human female orgasm, Lloyd's book is at the same time a case study of how certain biases steer science astray. Over the past fifteen years, the effect of sexist or male-centered approaches to science has been hotly debated. Drawing especially on data from nonhuman primates and human sexology over eighty years, Lloyd shows what damage such bias does in the study of female orgasm. She also exposes a second pernicious form of bias that permeates the literature on female orgasms: a bias toward adaptationism. Here Lloyd's critique comes alive, demonstrating how most of the evolutionary accounts either are in conflict with, or lack, certain types of evidence necessary to make their cases--how they simply assume that female orgasm must exist because it helped females in the past reproduce. As she weighs the evidence, Lloyd takes on nearly everyone who has written on the subject: evolutionists, animal behaviorists, and feminists alike. Her clearly and cogently written book is at once a convincing case study of bias in science and a sweeping summary and analysis of what is known about the evolution of the intriguing trait of female orgasm.

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.

Find out what millions of women who have read Woman's Orgasm have learned. Any woman can achieve orgasm and sexual satisfaction. Woman's Orgasm is an invaluable resource and self-help guide filled with illuminating information, referencing medical studies and research, including the psychological, historical, social, and cultural aspects of female sexuality and issues in obtaining orgasm. Much of the book is devoted to teaching proven methods and exercises that can help women learn to achieve orgasm. The authors comprehensive and focused guide provides many easy to follow step-by-step instructions, including an eleven-step program for achieving self-stimulating orgasm and a ten-step program for achieving orgasm with intercourse. Woman's Orgasm candidly teaches the physiological facts of woman s sexuality, and clearly tells her exactly how she can learn to reach total and consistent sexual fulfillment. The key word in this superbly practical and proven approach is learn. As the authors have discovered in their work as highly successful sex therapists, the key to the prevention of sexual dysfunction is adequate sex education. In this case knowledge really is power. World Renown Husband and Wife team of cutting edge sex therapists. This ground breaking couple have been featured as guests on Dinah Shore, Merv Griffin and numerous other national radio and television shows. Dr. Graber was a Planned Parenthood M.D. and a practicing Psychiatrist for three decades. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School. Georgia Kline-Graber is a R.N. and M.F.C.C. who specializes in sexual issues.

Ways Women Orgasm presents women's sexual experiences: What real women say: Very few women are motivated by their own arousal & orgasm. Most women look for a loving relationship.Orgasm techniques: Women need psychological arousal (erotic turn-ons) & physical stimulation (of the clitoris) to reach orgasm.The politics of sex: Erotic fiction implies women have a sex drive & orgasm with a lover. This does not reflect the research findings.Men & sex play: Men focus on intercourse & hope for a proactive lover. Couples can enjoy exploring sex play over decades together.Hi, I am Jane, author of WaysWomenOrgasm.org. My work highlights our unrealistic expectations for female orgasm, which are based on what we see and read in erotic fictional media. My focus in on helping women, and their partners, who have not found answers elsewhere. I am challenging the sex advice given to women, which I believe is wrong.

This 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

Credible, readable, and easy to follow, The Orgasm Answer Guide tells you everything you ever wanted to know . . . but were afraid to ask. The Orgasm Answer Guide answers common questions many people have about one of life's most fascinating experiences. In an accessible question-and-answer format, four of the world's leading sexuality experts address every aspect of orgasms: how they happen, why they don't, and what can be done to enhance sexual experiences. The authors provide clear and informed answers to more than 80 common questions, including: • Can an orgasm cause a heart attack? • Does childbirth affect orgasm? • What is the G spot? • How can I tell whether my partner is faking an orgasm? • Do orgasms end at a certain age? The all-star author team includes neuroscientist Barry R. Komisaruk, bestselling author and sexual health researcher Beverly Whipple, BBC sexuality talk-show host Sara Nasserzadeh, and Mexico's leading sex researcher, Carlos Beyer-Flores.