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Nature 445, 822 (22 February 2007) | doi:10.1038/445822b; Published online 21 February 2007
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The pleasure principle
Tim D. Spector1
BOOK REVIEWED-The Science of Orgasm
by Barry R. Komisaruk, Carlos Beyer-Flores & Beverly Whipple
Johns Hopkins University Press: 2006. 280 pp. $25, £16.50
The three academic authors of The Science of Orgasm — a neurophysiologist, a hormone physiologist and a sexologist — promise in the preface to take a different perspective from recent books exploring sexual behaviour and orgasm. Instead they focus on the physiology and pathology of ejaculation and orgasm in the context of bodily changes, health implications, dysfunction, ageing, pleasure and the nervous system.
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