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, Elisabeth Lloyd arrives at another: How could anything as inadequate as the evolutionary explanations of the female orgasm have passed muster as science? A judicious and revealing look at all twenty evolutionary accounts of the trait of human female orgasm, Lloyd's book is at the same time a case study of how certain biases steer science astray. Over the past fifteen years, the effect of sexist or male-centered approaches to science has been hotly debated. Drawing especially on data from nonhuman primates and human sexology over eighty years, Lloyd shows what damage such bias does in the study of female orgasm. She also exposes a second pernicious form of bias that permeates the literature on female orgasms: a bias toward adaptationism. Here Lloyd's critique comes alive, demonstrating how most of the evolutionary accounts either are in conflict with, or lack, certain types of evidence necessary to make their cases--how they simply assume that female orgasm must exist because it helped females in the past reproduce. As she weighs the evidence, Lloyd takes on nearly everyone who has written on the subject: evolutionists, animal behaviorists, and feminists alike. Her clearly and cogently written book is at once a convincing case study of bias in science and a sweeping summary and analysis of what is known about the evolution of the intriguing trait of female orgasm.

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.

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.