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Orgasm, Pleasure, & Western Culture (an excerpt)

the right reason to refrain from talking about sex is not that it’s so crude, but that words are In The Function of the Orgasm, the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich wrote that the natural energies of humans ebb and flow on … Continue reading

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what office oversees

what office oversees your orgasm? what corporation measures the kiss the Mexican boy gives the statue he holds in the waves? what country contains the squarkling crows that startle you awake at your window? what website watches you dream?

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orgasm

orgasm is a flower blooming or dark ink suffusing, internal fireworks, spirits summoned by chants and incan- tations—ritual in the dark or any gas station bathroom and one of two things we have left for centuries from the sanctioned report, … Continue reading

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