And orgasm is a big, big theme in the journal.
It is also released during love making and orgasm, helping to form pair bonds.
We focus on penetration and orgasm because of our goal-orientated culture.
Liberating indeed was all that discussion of menstruation and orgasm and frigidity.
No one here is claiming that women's experience of desire, arousal and orgasm is exactly like men's.
And yet, like we conflate ejaculation and orgasm, we routinely conflate pleasure and orgasm, tying it with the notion of authentic vs inauthentic sexual performance, in which orgasm is supposedly the proof that the sexual act was "real".
It's worth bearing in mind that oxytocin also needs to be produced in high amounts for sex and orgasm.
Females had access to regular sex with males, and orgasm as an ovulatory mechanism was no longer so useful.
Or there's SmartBod, a vibrator with biometric sensing that tracks sharable data about a woman's arousal process and orgasm.
The critically acclaimed Masters of Sex – starring Michael Sheen as real-life 1950s gynaecologist and orgasm pioneer William H Masters – didn't quite end with a bang.
Oxytocin (hospitals use it to induce labour) is produced during childbirth, breast-feeding and orgasm, while vasopressin is released during arousal in men.
