Word: orgasms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost everyone Jane met was willing to tell her how to live. "Hey, did anyone see three index cards with the Groovy Orgasm speech notes on them?" somebody yelled at a sex clinic. She visited a fisherperson on the West Coast, a Tupperware lady in New England, various militants and separatists, a rich assortment of discontented wives, and a few who were not. Not many of the reports are reassuring. The writer's own sister, who is married and likes it that way, said, "What can anyone say of me other than 'Isn't she wonderful...
...questions, and destroys a few myths held by many (gay men included). He has never had anal intercourse, he prefers not to have oral intercourse, and he mildly dislikes kissing. What's left? The question betrays a mechanical outlook towards lovemaking. Reid's first experience didn't even involve orgasm, because he was having so much fun he didn't notice or care about not having one. This is an attitude more people (gay men included) should be aware...
What is your habit of intercourse? Do you always have a venereal orgasm...
...question about orgasm, 13 of the women said "Always," 13 said "Sometimes" and 11 said "Never." Of course such a small sampling, though interesting, does not constitute the last scientific word on Victorian sexuality. The study's certain value lies in its uniqueness and extensive quotations from Victorian women openly discussing their intimate lives and cravings...
...typically torn woman, a wife for seven years by 1892, considered the ideal sexual routine to be "total abstinence with intercourse for reproduction only"-although she usually had an orgasm when she slept with her husband, and the next day felt "exceedingly well...