Why women evolved to have orgasms--when most of their primate relatives don't--is a persistent mystery among evolutionary biologists. In pursuing this mystery, Lloyd arrives at another: How could anything as inadequate as the evolutionary explanations of the female orgasm have passed muster as science?

Find out what millions of women who have read Woman's Orgasm have learned. Any woman can achieve orgasm and sexual satisfaction. Woman's Orgasm is an invaluable resource and self-help guide filled with illuminating information, referencing medical studies and research, including the psychological, historical, social, and cultural aspects of female sexuality and issues in obtaining orgasm. Much of the book is devoted to teaching proven methods and exercises that can help women learn to achieve orgasm. The authors comprehensive and focused guide provides many easy to follow step-by-step instructions, including an eleven-step program for achieving self-stimulating orgasm and a ten-step program for achieving orgasm with intercourse. Woman's Orgasm candidly teaches the physiological facts of woman s sexuality, and clearly tells her exactly how she can learn to reach total and consistent sexual fulfillment. The key word in this superbly practical and proven approach is learn. As the authors have discovered in their work as highly successful sex therapists, the key to the prevention of sexual dysfunction is adequate sex education. In this case knowledge really is power. World Renown Husband and Wife team of cutting edge sex therapists. This ground breaking couple have been featured as guests on Dinah Shore, Merv Griffin and numerous other national radio and television shows. Dr. Graber was a Planned Parenthood M.D. and a practicing Psychiatrist for three decades. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Medical School. Georgia Kline-Graber is a R.N. and M.F.C.C. who specializes in sexual issues.

Are you one of the thirty percent of women who has difficulties with orgasm? Do you want to experience greater sexual satisfaction? In easy to read language, The Elusive Orgasm provides a full overview of women's sexual pleasure, covering sexual triggers, stages of arousal, the power of mind, and how women differ from men. Longtime clinical psychologist and sex therapist Dr. Vivienne Cass reveals all the causes of women's orgasm difficulties-and how to remedy them. In The Elusive Orgasm, you'll learn: What an orgasm is, How the clitoris is much more than "a little button", The five types of orgasm difficulties, The twenty-five causes of those difficulties, Self-awareness via quizzes and questionnaires, Step-by-step plans to help you and your partner. An extraordinarily thorough, all-inclusive exploration of every possible reason why women have orgasm challenges, The Elusive Orgasm gives you the tools to discover the source of your own orgasm difficulties, along with straightforward remedies. Book jacket.

Like men, women also can ejaculate, enhancing and intensifying their sexual pleasure. In an open, positive style, Deborah Sundahl presents information about female ejaculation including scientific findings, anatomical illustrations, historical accounts, a chapter on how men can help their female partners to ejaculate, and women's and men's experiences collected during the past two decades.

Whether you're celebrating your thousandth female orgasm, searching for your first, or cheering on your girlfriend or wife, women and men across the country agree: I Love Female Orgasm! I Love Female Orgasm is crammed with everything you want to know about the big O, including: How to have an orgasm during intercourse--and why most women don't Directions on finding your way to the G-spot Detailed advice on how to have your first orgasm Advice for better oral sex Tips on surfing waves of multiple orgasms (even if you usually have just one) The truth about female ejaculation (yes, it exists!) Answers to your questions about vibrators, sex toys, piercings, and more The real deal on orgasms for lesbian, bisexual, and queer women An entire chapter for men on how to turn her on and get her off Plus tips for partners in every chapter Solot and Miller have spoken to thousands of men and women and surveyed thousands more about their experiences with female orgasm. Here they share all that they've learned--plus give you a sneak peek behind bedroom doors as women and men share their favorite moves, mistakes to avoid, and best "oh, yeah!" moments. span

The author explores hysteria in Western medicine throughout the ages and examines the characterization of female sexuality as a disease requiring treatment. Medical authorities, she writes, were able to defend and justify the clinical production of orgasm in women as necessary to maintain the dominant view of sexuality, which defined sex as penetration to male orgasm - a practice that consistently fails to produce orgasm in a majority of the female population. This male-centered definition of satisfying and healthy coitus shaped not only the development of concepts of female sexual pathology but also the instrumentation designed to cope with them.