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you ever wonder how Western sexual healh professionals became so certain that orgasm is more vital to our wellbeing than virtually any other aspect of intimacy? We've argued that the current preoccupation with sexual gratification its puritanical progeny. For example, all of the authors whose sacred sex classics are reproduced on this site (see right-hand margin) are notably sex positive – even John Humphrey Noyes, who graduated with a degree in divinity early in the nineteenth century. And there are centuries of parallel wisdom in China and India (See the "Wisdom" page for relevant links).
These days, however, most people poke fun at, or severely castigateis, in effect, the default behavioral program for all mammals, and likely also reigned in primitive hunter-gatherer tribes.1 Yet until recently - and as far back as the ancient Greeks - sexual self-control was a respectable objective in Western thought. Moreover, praise for self-control wasn't confined to the sex-negative Church and
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