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The Science of Orgasm
About this book
Winner, 2007 Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough Book Award, Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
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 menfrom intense to phantom—this informative and entertaining work illuminates the hows, whats, and wherefores of orgasm.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Definitions of Orgasm
- 2 Different Nerves, Different Orgasmic Feelings
- 3 Bodily Changes at Orgasm
- 4 Are Orgasms Good for Your Health?
- 5 When Things Go Wrong
- 6 Diseases That Affect Orgasm
- 7 How Aging Affects Orgasm
- 8 Pleasure and Satisfaction with and without Orgasm
- 9 The Nervous System Connection
- 10 The Neurochemistry of Orgasm
- 11 Effects of Medication
- 12 Counteracting Medication Side Effects
- 13 Recreational Stimulant Drugs and Orgasm
- 14 Depressant Drugs and Orgasm
- 15 Herbal Therapies
- 16 Hormones and Orgasm
- 17 Mechanism of Action of Sex Steroids
- 18 Nonreproductive Hormones in Orgasm
- 19 Atypical Orgasms
- 20 The Genital-Brain Connection
- 21 Orgasms after Brain Surgery or Brain Damage
- 22 Imaging the Brain during Sexual Arousal and Orgasm
- 23 The Cast of Characters How Brain Components Contribute to Orgasm
- 24 Consciousness and Orgasm
- Glossary
- References
- Index