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Orgasm

Overthink

CHAPTER

The Orgasm Gap and the State of Gender and Sex in Our Society

Ellie: Sexual pleasure can feel like a taste of eternity and that this seems a bit different from the ending that is an orgasm where you have a rising motion. David: The colloquial term in orgasm in French which is la putitma means little death. Ellie: I don't really agree with Sarah Heinema who compares orgasms to fainting or losing consciousness because what they all have in common according to her is that they take us out of time.David: In fact I see orgasm as driving us into a temporal moment in a much more radical way.

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