First stirrings: cultural notes on orgasm, ejaculation, and wet dreams.

From: The Journal of Sex Research | Date: May 1, 2007| Author: Janssen, Diederik F. | Copyright information

Both the findings and the limitations of numeric milestone research in sexology have a bearing on the pedagogical status of pleasure, as well as the cultural underpinnings of the notion of a psychosexual milestone. An overview is offered of international data pertaining to the chronology of three "milestones" in sexual autobiography: first orgasm (orgasmarche), first ejaculation (oigarche), and first wet dream (nocturnal emission). Methodological problems associated with the measurement of ...

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