Autobiographies of Our Orgasms


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What happens when people speak their truth about their sensual experiences? Read Autobiographies of Our Orgasms and find out. It's like Chicken Soup for the Soul, but for orgasm. After releasing her first book, Autobiography of an Orgasm, something unexpected happened. Author Betsy Blankenbaker began to receive story after story from readers who thanked her for putting words to their own disconnection from their sensual being. For some, it became a starting point to look at their relationships to their bodies. For others, it became a launching point for reclaiming their bodies as holy and experiencing healing through orgasm. In her second book, Autobiographies of Our Orgasms, Blankenbaker invited readers to submit their own stories of sacred connection to their bodies and their orgasms. The selected storytellers, both women and men, invite you into their beds with their heartfelt, soulful, courageous stories. They write with raw truth and transparency of the moment they listened to their bodies instead of the messages coming from media, church, family and partners about how sex and life should look or feel. Blankenbaker candidly shares common misinformation on orgasm and why she believes you need to spend as much time honoring your body as sacred as you do on getting your hair done, going to the gym, shopping or perusing social networking. The stories in Autobiographies of Our Orgasms will entertain, educate and inspire you to question everything you think you know about your body and sexuality. And like Blankenbaker, you may even find a path to spiritual enlightenment and healing through remembering your body as sacred.




Autobiographies of Our Orgasms


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When Betsy Blankenbaker published Autobiography of an Orgasm in 2014, glowing reviews for her vulnerable storytelling poured in. So did a deluge of messages from readers who also learned the fundamental role of pleasure in their lives after years of thinking something was wrong with them because they couldn't feel their orgasm. In June 2015 Betsy brought us Autobiographies of Our Orgasms, an intelligently and sensitively curated anthology of sixteen stories by men and women who had confronted abuse, social mores, and all the other things that come between us and our orgasms. In 2016, a second collection was released featuring stories from sixteen more women. In 2017, Betsy offers another anthology of powerful, candid stories for Autobiographies of Our Orgasms 3. "We write these stories to learn about ourselves," Betsy says and by reading them we learn even more. When one person tells the truth about their experience it gives others permission to do the same. In a culture where sexual pleasure is obscured by the pressure to climax and the messages that are prevalent in porn, such as women are objects and not active participants with their own desires- these stories will help you redefine what an orgasm is and when you may have lost touch with your own. Autobiographies of Our Orgasms 3 will make you laugh, break your heart, and give you courage. This book will expand your thinking on orgasm to a whole new world of feeling - and it just may open you up to a deeper experience of your body, your sensual self and the way you live in the world.




Autobiography of an Orgasm


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What do we think we know about the female orgasm? It's that peak experience, an ultimate moment of climax and release that nevertheless eludes so many. Some women live for it, some have multiple orgasms, some fake it while others simply learn to do without. "Autobiography of an Orgasm" (November, 2014) is a sexy-spiritual memoir that's part steamy erotica and part straight-talking advice. It's the result of Betsy Blankenbaker's tireless journey to learn everything she could about the female orgasm in a personal quest to feel as much as possible after too many years of feeling nothing at all. To solve the mystery of why she spent much of her life disconnected from her sensuality, struggling to overcome the shame of childhood sexual assault, Blankenbaker set out at age 45 to thoroughly research women's orgasm. Along the way, she spent time in bed with orgasm experts, strolled down New York's tony Fifth Avenue with a healing jade egg in her vagina, had a spiritual awakening through orgasm in Africa, and received sacred "Womb Rites" from a shaman in the Peruvian Amazon. Through lively storytelling and a delicious sense of humor, Betsy shares why she was never able to find fulfillment in life, love or sex prior to her pilgrimage to healing and pleasure. Her findings resulted in this unprecedented book, "Autobiography of an Orgasm." "Autobiography of an Orgasm" seeks to answer the questions women have but don't know how (or whom) to ask. It is the author's fervent prayer that it will inspire women everywhere to burn their dysfunctional bridges and step into healing by learning to love their bodies and themselves.




Autobiographies of Our Orgasms, Vol. 2


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In a culture where sexual pleasure is obscured by the pressure to climax and the messages that are prevalent in porn, such as women are objects and not active participants with their own desires- these stories will help you redefine what an orgasm is and when you may have lost touch with your own. "Autobiographies of Our Orgasms 2" will make you laugh, break your heart, and give you courage. This book will expand your thinking on orgasm to a whole new world of feeling - and it just may open you up to a deeper experience of your body, your sensual self and the way you live in the world.




O


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Orgasm is one of society's most compelling, shaping forces -- and most of us probably think that we are living in its golden age. But are we? The history of the orgasm is as elusive as orgasm itself can be, for sex rarely makes the historical record. Now acclaimed British journalist Jonathan Margolis delivers the definitive history of the human orgasm, of sex for pleasure as well as conception -- from prehistory to Viagra. Most people manage just twelve minutes of orgasmic bliss per year. Some never experience it at all. Yet the urge for orgasm rules much of human life, across national and cultural boundaries. How much have we learned about female pleasure since the 1558 discovery of the clitoris? How has the drive for pleasure, and the fear of it, shaped various societies -- from Saint Francis of Assisi and the thorn bush, to "primitive" tribes who embraced maximum pleasure for both sexes? How much does the sensation of orgasm differ for different people? Drawing on the biology, literature, anthropology, psychology, and technology, Jonathan Margolis delivers the final word on both male and female orgasm in an enlightening history that is a pleasure to read.




Beyond O


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In 2014, Betsy Blankenbaker released her first book, Autobiography of an Orgasm, a spiritual memoir about her five years researching orgasm as a way to heal. The U.K.'s Sunday Times called it "part erotica, part refreshingly sincere roadmap for the orgasmically challenged... sort of an anti- Fifty Shades of Grey." By the time Betsy completed her book, she had healed her body and mind from the sexual assaults she experienced as a child and teenager, and from a date rape as an adult. She felt herself coming to life at age fifty, a time when many women are being dismissed by society. There were consequences for speaking up-some of them unpleasant. She wondered if she should have stayed quiet so that she didn't offend or hurt or disappoint other people. How many of us don't speak our truth because we fear rejection or being abandoned by others? We choose to stay quiet-and then we abandon ourselves. Beyond O is the captivating follow-up to Autobiography of an Orgasm. Through her personal storytelling, Betsy makes you question your current views on sex and sensuality as she focuses less on the orgasm and more on living an orgasmic life. She uses humor and truth-telling as she invites the reader into the most sensual year of her life. By the end of the book - and an unexpected twist - Betsy will make you want to speak up too.




Orgasms for Two


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A down-to-earth guide to becoming happier and healthier through the benefits of mutually satisfying pleasure—from a renowned sex educator featured on Netflix’s the goop lab with Gwyneth Paltrow In Orgasms for Two: The Joy of Partnersex, Dr. Betty Dodson shows us how to get to know ourselves and our partners better, whether it’s the inner and outer workings of the anatomy or the best sex toys to bring to bed. She writes often from her own experiences, because she feels people learn best through example, and she writes from the knowledge acquired through years of working with women and men, teaching workshops, and doing research. The knowledge gained through reading Orgasms for Two is like having a kindly, remarkably frank guide tell you all the things you’ve always wanted to know but never had anyone to ask. Open Orgasms for Two and see how rewarding it is to cast aside conventional beliefs about sexuality and begin to enjoy the best sex of your life.




The Breathless Orgasm


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This title dramatically examines dependency on self-strangulation for sexual arousal.




Revenge of the Orgasm


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As you are driving, your body involuntarily jumps. Sweat begins on your forehead and appears on your body, even though it is the middle of Winter. Inside of your left thigh, there is a tapping that is not harmful but noticeable. And you begin to wonder if sanity has departed or control of your motor skills is no longer your own. Then, the epiphany becomes clear. This is Revenge of the Orgasm




The Functions of the Orgasms


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'Fetus ejection reflex, 'milk ejection reflex, 'Sperm ejection reflex, 'Orgasmogenic cocktail'... These are examples of terms used by Michel Odent in his study of the ecstatic/orgasmic states associated with different episodes of human sexual life.