Word: orgasms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team of researchers have conducted a study of yohimbine's effect on 23 men with impotence related to physical problems, like diabetes. The men were given laboratory-synthesized yohimbine daily for eight to ten weeks. Ten improved, with six once again able to sustain erection and reach orgasm. The drug unexpectedly also relieves some of the numbness and prickling in the legs that frequently afflict diabetics. Unpleasant side effects were limited to temporary dizziness or gastrointestinal upset. The Canadian team is now beginning a two-year study of yohimbine vs. placebo in 120 men with impotence of organic...
Hite, whose first book, a report on female sexuality, attracted widespread attention by concluding that only 30 per cent of women have orgasm during intercourse, argued against the notion that male and female roles are biologically determined and therefore unchangeable. She noted that mostly male reviewers have attacked her current book, and speculated that her conclusions may be upsetting because "we like to build our lives around a biological base...
Society's definition of sex "has always been very sexist," focused on the vagina, penis and orgasm rather than the clitoris, Hite said, adding that most men see women as"traps and burdens, but the best that can be expected for overcoming loneliness...
...gold is sometimes tarnished or alloyed. Virginia Woolf, who was married at 30, sadly reported that the orgasm had been immensely exaggerated. "It is a great thing being a eunuch as I am," she insisted. But she was not, and she had at least one lesbian affair, with fellow Author Vita Sackville-West...
...when moviemakers seem to have forgotten that the libido exists, in part because these scenes are the film's only submissions to spontaneity. This Postman is a true period piece-not 1934, but the early '70s, when American and European directors were investigating functions of the apocalyptic orgasm from behind a modernist screen. Like Last Tango in Paris, Rafelson's Postman shows what his doomed lovers do but does not tell who they are. Their willful sex scenes are explicit and incandescent; their motivations are elliptical smoke signals viewed from the other side of Death Valley...