The Origins of Orgasm

An 18th century bishop named Thomas Percy compiled a collection of loose and humorous songs. One describes someone who sees two people having sex in a meadow. How do phenomenology and psychoanalysis interpret the experience of orgasm? Why might orgasm have arisen in the course of human evolution?

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