The Science of Orgasm

This fascinating and comprehensive book is the first to explore the complex biological process leading to orgasm. Here, sexuality researcher and nurse Beverly Whipple, coauthor of the international best-selling book The G Spot and Other Discoveries about Human Sexuality, joins neuroscientist Barry R. Komisaruk and endocrinologist Carlos Beyer-Flores to view orgasm through the lenses of behavioral neuroscience along with cognitive and physiological sciences.

The authors explain how and why orgasms happen, why they fail to happen, and what brain and body events are put into play at the moment of orgasm. No topic is left unexplored, as the book describes the genital-brain connection, how the brain produces orgasms, how aging affects orgasm, and the effects of prescription medication, street drugs, hormones, disorders, and diseases.

Covering every type of sexual peak experience in women and menfrom intense to phantom--this informative and entertaining work illuminates the hows, whats, and wherefores of orgasm.

Author: Barry R. Komisaruk, Carlos Beyer-Flores, Beverly Whipple
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 11/01/2006
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.32w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780801884900

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/25/2006 pg. 56
Scitech Book News 03/01/2007 pg. 81

About the Author

Barry R. Komisaruk is a professor of psychology at Rutgers University. Carlos Beyer-Flores is head of the Laboratorio Tlaxcala in Mexico. Beverly Whipple is Professor Emerita at the College of Nursing, Rutgers University.

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