Primera línea
The first act of sexual intercourse, the earliest example of two like creatures coming into intimate contact for the purpose of combining their DNA to create a new creature, probably took place about one and a half billion years BC, at a location deep in the primordial oceans.
Descripción de la solapa
The secret history of the orgasm, from its evolutionary beginnings to its current iconic status.
When, in 1558, an anatomist called Columbus discovered the clitoris, a whole new world of sexual pleasure opened up - and it was a steady progress climaxing in the present Golden Age.
That at least is the official history. Here Jonathan Margolis produces evidence to show that in Europe and America progress was extremely slow while in other places the secrets of the orgasm created almost unimaginable worlds of pleasure. The book draws on orgasm's biology, anthropology, psychology, technology and sociology. Revered in ancient societies, by the 13th century, modesty ruled: St. Francis of Assisi would throw himself into a thorn bush to disguise unwanted erections and avoid all possibility of orgasm. Victorians still regarded the female orgasm as a form of hysteria and, in the 19th century, women were strongly advised against riding bicycles for this reason. Later, in Edwardian Britain and America, vibrators were routinely advertised in respectable women's magazines as a form of handy household appliance. Margolis considers the effect of the Pill, feminism and Viagra on the state of the orgasm in the 21st century.
Packed with fascinating facts and insights, Margolis's mischievous history of the orgasm will both amuse and inform.
Detalles
- Título O: The Intimate History of the Orgasm
- Autor Jonathan Margolis
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Páginas 416
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Grove Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación September 29, 2005
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780802142160 / 0802142168
- Peso 1.02 libras (0.46 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.42 x 6.34 x 1.06 pulgadas (21.39 x 16.10 x 2.69 cm)
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Temas
- Topical: Lgbt
- Library of Congress subjects Orgasm, Female orgasm
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.7
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