When the Earth Moves: Women and Orgasm

by Mikaya Heart

Owning our desires should be neither embarrassing nor uncomfortable. Nor should they be subject to anyone else's moral judgment of what is right or wrong, good or bad, normal or abnormal. Combining communication and information is the by shrugging off the taboos against talking about our preferences and experiences when we're being sexual, we will take the first and most important steps toward ensuring our own fulfillment. WHEN THE EARTH MOVES is an unflinchingly honest, responsible, and thoroughly comprehensive exploration of female sexuality. Topics The physical types of orgasm, such as electrical, flying, pounding, deep, waves, and blips; Orgasm as an emotional release; The elusive orgasm and why some women have difficulty having one; How often we fake them and why; Masturbation; Multiple orgasms; The male-female dichotomy; Penetration and the G-spot; Defining the erotic; and Sex toys.

This book was recently mentioned in Timothy Ferris's best seller, THE FOUR HOUR BODY. The most highly recommended book of its kind, an updated version is due to be released in July, titled THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO ORGASM FOR WOMEN.

Genres: Sexuality, Feminism, Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1998

About the author

I've led a very varied and interesting life, so sometimes it's hard to know what to say. I'll try to be succinct. I grew up on a farm in Scotland in a very dysfunctional family, where it really wasn't OK to be an outspoken tomboy, but I just couldn't help it. In my teens I tried hard to be heterosexual, and became a barefoot hippie and a rabid environmentalist in the days before anyone really knew that term. In my mid-twenties I came out as a lesbian feminist and was very active in underground feminist actions in the seventies and eighties. I moved to the boonies of northern California, where I ran an organic market garden, built my own house out of recycled lumber which I collected, and raised the first commercial organic free-range hogs in the USA. In the nineties, I did a lot of healing work around my sexuality, which is part of what inspired the orgasm book. (The first edition, When the Earth Moves, came out in 1998.) I also became increasingly dissatisfied with life in that decade, and had various fairly extraordinary experiences which culminated in an epiphany that inspired me to sell my land and take to the road. These days, I travel the world, mostly following the wind and summer weather so that I can kitesurf, which is what keeps me happy. I write as I travel, and have various books on my computer, some of which have been published. My Sweet Wild Dance is the story of my personal journey from anger to joy, and it won a Golden Crown Literary Award.Prior to that, I published a book on a shamanic practitioner from Seattle, Char Sundust. My next book will probably be Life, Lies, and Sex: A Manual for Living. I am a coach in the art of being fully alive, and I need something like that as a handbook for my clients. I have fairly radical ideas about the nature of reality and our place in it, as human beings. I think sex is a wonderful aid to understanding what life is about, and to teaching us how to allow life-force to flow through us.

Reviews

[HeavyReader · Rating 4 out of 5]

The subtitle of this book neatly sums up what it is about.

One interesting aspect of this one is that it was written by a lesbian, so there is less heterosexual assmuption than in most sex books I have read.

[Kristi]

wonderful book