Word: orgasm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people against whom he has grievances. When the imagined assembly is complete, he rounds them up and shoots them all with a machine gun. There is the woman from public broadcasting who calls Jennifer to ask whether she'd like to participate in a seminar on the female orgasm in literature. There is the airplane cargo door that opens in mid-flight, releasing, out of all the cargo, a coffin. The coffin lands in the garden of a recently widowed woman who draws the obvious conclusion...
Hite also concludes that orgasms produced by clitoral massage are stronger and more ecstatic than those produced by intercourse-a finding that other sex researchers, including Masters and Johnson, support. But Hite goes still further, arguing that many female orgasms during intercourse are "emotional orgasms"-diffuse physical sensations produced mainly from feelings of love and intimacy. Hite considers it a desirable form of release "as long as women are not pressured into using emotional orgasm as a substitute for real orgasms." She also suggests that the presence of the penis in the vagina may reduce a woman's chances...
Eighty-seven percent of Hite's women said they enjoy "vaginal penetration/intercourse" mostly because of the feelings of closeness and security they as sociate with the act. "Clearly," says Hite, "there was no automatic connection between not having orgasms during intercourse and not liking it. " Four-fifths of the women reported that they masturbated, and of these, 95% reached orgasm easily and regularly. Most admitted they liked cunnilingus, though Hite reports that they described it in "spare, tight, unenthusiastic and secretive" language. Says Hite: "Women do not feel proud about clitoral stimulation in any form...
...National Organization for Women to use the NOW letterhead for her freelance sex study. Many of her questions reflected an embattled view of sex arising out of the feminist movement. (Sample: "Do you feel that having sex is in any way political?"). Others proved so opaque ("Is having an orgasm somewhat of a concentrated effort?" "If you have ever experienced something you called 'love,' which emotions were involved?") that Hite revised the questionnaire three times and then ran into problems lumping together answers to three versions of the same question...
...things to come: one portion of the current book is entitled "Do Men Need Intercourse?"Though Hite never answers her own question, she refers admiringly to the 19th century sexual practices of the famous Oneida Community in New York. The Oneida men usually indulged in intercourse but not orgasm...