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The History Of The Orgasm

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For something that takes so little of our time, the orgasm occupies a grossly outsized portion of our economy, science, and cultural imagination.

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If a recent history of the subject is to be believed, the average man or woman will spend 20 seconds a week in orgasm—or, to extrapolate, around twelve minutes a year or ten hours in a typical lifetime.

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