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orgasm

[awr-gaz-uhm] / ˈɔr gæz əm /
NOUN
climax
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After saying he never hears queer women complaining about their inability to achieve orgasm, Joel Kim Booster abruptly silences a round of applause with a glare and a raise of a hand.

From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2022

I think it’s wonderful that we’ve got so many men in hetersexual relationships who value female orgasm, and giving pleasure.

From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2021

A study of 5,552 people found that circumcision was associated with frequent orgasm difficulties in Danish men.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2019

Another big myth has been exposed at Dr Cindy Meston's orgasm lab at the University of Texas at Austin.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2016

If the secretory vessels of the liver are affected first with torpor, and afterwards with orgasm, a greater secretion of bile is produced, which sometimes causes a diarrhœa.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

By every metric that matters – standing ovations, media orgasms and, above all, Nielsen ratings – Jon Stewart’s return to “The Daily Show” is a smashing success.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2024

Here are columns by Maureen Dowd on orgasms and classical music and Ross Douthat on the Hollywood writers’ strike.

From New York Times ● May 21, 2023

There are more than a dozen theories about the evolution of orgasms, most proposed decades or more ago.

From Science Magazine ● Aug. 1, 2016

Benevolent sexism isn’t a direct cause to fewer orgasms, but rather a contributing factor — one piece of a very complicated puzzle.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2016

Comparisons between the orgasms of collective madness which accompanied the Russian welter, on the one hand, and the French Revolution, on the other, are unfruitful and often misleading.

From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon




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