Word: orgasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interesting discovery made by the author is a link between drug use and homosexual behavior: in a survey of college students, "one in seven of the male heavy users reported a homosexual experience to orgasm since coming to college, a figure more than six times as great as for the non-users." Rightly, he postulates no cause-effect relationship, but suggests other explanations...
...swelling, profoundly organic rhythms of Nude on a Black Couch, 1932 (41) are a visual equivalent to Blake's praise of "the lineaments of satisfied desire"; even the philodendron, which rises behind Marie-Thérèse's sleeping body, seems to have just had an orgasm...
Happily, Reuben does not often tangle with anything so complex as high school zoology. Mostly he cheerleads for more and better female orgasms: "The female capacity for orgasm is so great that it has never been fully measured...
...More mischief lies in the Great Clitoral Controversy. Movement radicals, misinterpreting Masters' and Johnson's laboratory experiments, declare that the clitoris is the key to womanly orgasm. They denounce Freud and his notion of the superior role of the vagina. Certainly women are entitled to any sort of orgasm they like. But girls who are now being enjoined to "Think clitoris!" are being sold a mechanistic view of sex that is almost as dehumanizing as the phallic consciousness of Playboy...
...Moreno). As she sinks slowly, agonizingly slowly, to her knees she recites a ritual of masculine domination: "You have ... an inner power so great that every act, no matter what, is more proof of that power." If the text varies by so much as a word, Jonathan cannot achieve orgasm. The great swordsman, the contemptuous user of women, has become impotent...