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orgasm

[awr-gaz-uhm] / ˈɔr gæz əm /
NOUN
climax
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Elisabeth Lloyd, a professor of biology at Indiana University and author of The Case of the Female Orgasm, praised the study and said it offered support for the team’s theory.

From The Guardian • Sep. 30, 2019

Boyd highlights Lerone Bennett Jr.’s Ebony magazine article titled “The Emancipation Orgasm: Sweetback in Wonderland” in which Bennett accused the film of romanticizing poverty and misery.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2018

The shade choice is good, but Rose Gold is particularly flattering on everyone and is the spit of Nars’s Orgasm.

From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2017

Just before he died, Mailer spoke to me about the direct influence Reich had on his thinking: "The Function of the Orgasm was like a Pandora's box to me," he said.

From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2011

In 1971 Hite read a pamphlet in the NOW office, The Myth of Female Orgasm, and decided to create a questionnaire on the issue for a NOW-sponsored "speak-up."

From Time Magazine Archive




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