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Title: Orgasms, intimacy, relationship issues: Read all about it
Post by: LostInTime on February 19, 2007, 09:23:22 AM
Link (http://www.insidebayarea.com/bayarealiving/ci_5258461)

In "The Science of Orgasm" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), a neuroscientist, an endocrinologist and a sex researcher team to create one of the most impressively comprehensive books about orgasms on record. In intimate detail, authors Barry R. Komisaruk, Carlos Beyer-Flores and Beverly Whipple co-author of "The G Spot: And Other Discoveries About Human Sexuality," discuss the history, mechanics, physiology and neurochemistry of this most mysterious of physical events.

They explore the effects of aging, disease, medications, hormones and herbs on orgasm, and look at how orgasms occur in people with spinal cord injuries and epilepsy, and in transgender individuals.