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Orgasm

Overthink

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The Dark Side of the Orgasm Theory

This theory is rooted in turning the orgasm into the normative telos of all female sexuality. It very quickly bleeds into psychiatry, where women who don't have sex that culminates in this kind of orgasmic reproduction are somehow deemed environmentally abnormal. So it's more of an ontological versus like a pragmatic point. And I think that helps us make a distinction between,. on the one hand, the idea that orgasm has a particular relation to erotic pleasure as it's telos and also its outcome.

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