1,500
Views
33
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Miscellany

An orgasm is… who defines what an orgasm is?

Pages 101-107 | Received 02 Jan 2003, Accepted 02 Apr 2003, Published online: 24 Jan 2007

References

  • Bohlen , JG , Held , JP , Sanderson , MO and Ahlgren , A . 1982a . The Female Orgasm: Pelvic contractions . Archives of Sexual Behaviour , 11 : 367 – 386 .
  • Bohlen , JG , Held , JP , Sanderson , MO and Boyer , CM . 1982b . Development of a woman's multiple orgasm pattern: a research case report . The Journal of Sex Research , 18 : 130 – 145 .
  • Brecher EM 1972 The sex researchers (pp. 321) London: Panther Books Limited
  • Butler , CA . 1976 . New data about female sexual response . Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy , 2 : 40 – 46 .
  • Clifford , RE . 1978 . Subjective sexual experience in college women . Archives of Sexual Behavior , 7 : 183 – 197 .
  • Davis CM Yarber WL Bauserman R Schreer G Davis SL 1998 Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures (pp. 256 – 257) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications
  • Fisher S 1973 The Female Orgasm New York: Basic Books
  • Gerstenberg , TC , Levin , RJ and Wagner , G . 1990 . Erection and ejaculation in man. Assessment of the electromyographic activity of the bulbocavernosus and ischiocavernosus muscles . British Journal of Urology , 65 : 395 – 402 .
  • Hite S 1976 The Hite report: a nationwide study of female sexuality New York: Dell
  • Hite S 1981 The Hite Report on male sexuality New York: Ballantine Books
  • Hoch , Z . 1986 . Vaginal erotic sensitivity by sexological examination . Acta Obstetrica Gynecologica Scandinavica , 65 : 767 – 773 .
  • Holstege , GG , Geiorgiadis , JR , Paans , AM , Meiners , LC , van der Graaf , FH and Reinders , AA . 2003 . Brain activation during human male ejaculation . Journal of Neuroscience , 23 : 9185 – 9189 .
  • Holstege GG 2003 The Central nervous System Control of Female Orgasm (pp. 179) International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health Annual Meeting Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Jayne , C . 1981 . A two-dimensional model of female sexual response . Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy , 7 : 3 – 30 .
  • Kratochvil , S . 1994 . Vaginal contractions in female orgasm (In Czech) . Cesk Psychiatrica , 90 : 28 – 33 .
  • Krüger , THC , Haake , P , Hartman , U , Schedlowski , M and Exton , MS . 2002 . Orgasm-induced prolactin secretion: feedback control of sexual drive? . Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews , 26 : 540 – 544 .
  • Kinsey AC Pomeroy WB Martin CE Gebhard PH 1953 Sexual behaviour in the human female Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders
  • Lauman EO Gagnon JH Michael RT Michaels S 1994 The social organisation of sexuality: sexual practices in the United States Chicago: University of Chicago
  • Levin , RJ . 1981 . The female orgasm – a current appraisal . Journal of Psychosomatic Research , 25 : 119 – 133 .
  • Levin RJ 2001 Sexual desire and the deconstruction and reconstruction of the female sexual response model of Masters and Johnson In W. Everaerd, E. Laan, S. Both, (Eds), Sexual appetite, desire and motivation: Energetics of the sexual system (pp. 63 – 93) Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Levin , RJ . 2003a . Is prolactin the biological “off switch” for human sexual arousal? . Sexual and Relationship Therapy , 18 : 237 – 243 .
  • Levin , RJ . 2003b . The G-spot – reality or illusion? . Sexual and Relationship Therapy , 18 : 117 – 119 .
  • Levin , RJ and Wagner , G . 1985 . Orgasm in women in the laboratory-quantitative studies on duration, intensity, latency and vaginal blood flow . Archives Sexual Behaviour , 14 : 439 – 449 .
  • Mah , K and Binik , YM . 2001 . The nature of the human orgasm: A critical review of major trends . Clinical Psychology Review , 21 : 823 – 856 .
  • Mah , K and Binik , YM . 2002 . Do all orgasms feel alike? Evaluating a two-dimensional model of the orgasm experience across gender and sexual context . Journal of Sex Research , 39 : 104 – 113 .
  • Masters J Johnson V 1966 Human sexual response Boston: Little Brown
  • Newman , HF , Reiss , H and Northup , JD . 1982 . Physical basis of emission, ejaculation and orgasm in the male . Urology , 19 : 341 – 350 .
  • Oakes EH 2002 Johnson, Virginia International Encyclopaedia of Women Scientists New York: Facts on File, Science Online
  • Perry , JF . 1988 . Do men have a G-spot? . Australian Forum , 2 : 37 – 41 .
  • Sigusch , V and Schmidt , G . 1971 . Lower class sexuality: some emotional and social aspects of West German males and females . Archives of Sexual Behavior , 1 : 29 – 44 .
  • Singer I 1973 The Goals of Human Sexuality (pp. 72 – 75) London: Wildwood House
  • Tiihonen , J , Kuikka , J , Kupila , J , Partanen , K , Vainio , P , Airaksinen , J , Eronen , M , Hallikainen , T , Paanila , J , Kinnunen , I and Huttunen , J . 1994 . Increase in cerebral blood flow of right prefrontal cortex in man during orgasm . Neuroscience Letters , 170 : 241 – 243 .
  • Vance , EB and Wagner , NN . 1976 . Written descriptions of orgasm: a study of sex differences . Archives of Sexual Behaviour , 5 : 87 – 98 .
  • Wellings K Field J Johnson AM Wadsworth J 1994 Sexual behaviour in Britain (pp. 270) Middlesex, England: Penguin Books
  • Zilbergeld B 1979 Men and Sex (pp. 105 – 106) 1st British Edition, Essex, England: Anchor Press

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.