“It Feels So Good It Almost Hurts”: Young Adults' Experiences of Orgasm and Sexual Pleasure

Keywords

Orgasm, Pleasure, Psychology, Human sexuality, Developmental psychology

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• Coming to power: women's fake orgasms and best orgasm experiences illuminate the failures of (hetero)sex and the pleasures of connectionBreanne Fahs — 2014
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• Impact of orgasmic meditationLaura M Millar — 2015
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• Defining Pleasure: A Focus Group Study of Solitary and Partnered Sexual Pleasure in Queer and Heterosexual WomenKatherine L. Goldey, Amanda R. Posh, Sarah N. Bell — 2016
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• Changing Discourse, Learning Sex, and Non-coital HeterosexualityJoseph A. Diorio — 2016
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