The Female Orgasm: Psychology, Physiology, Fantasy

by Seymour Fisher

Condensed version published in 1973 under title, Understanding the Female Orgasm.

Genres: Sexuality, Psychology, Nonfiction, Womens, Feminism

533 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973

Reviews

[Roy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I lost interest and stopped before it was finished...just kidding. No I read it through. Even better than the Hite Report which I'd previously esteemed most highly. The essay portion by subjects was the best part, but didn't always back up the statistics presented since everyone deviates from the norm in their own ways.

[Tom Schulte · Rating 3 out of 5]

A weighty tome, about a thousand pages, on more than just the female sexual response. Gross female sexual psychology as elicited from numerous studies is poured over. Entirely enlightening, I recommend this to serious readers of either sex. There is even a good deal of child and interpersonal psychology to be had.

From a circa 2000 interview I did with composer John Latartara:

There's a book called "The Female Orgasm" that came out in the Seventies and I see it at a bookstore once it's like really thick, phonebook-thick. And I was like, “Can there really be that much on the subject? I have to read this” And really the title is a little misleading. That was really the result of a study done in the early Seventies; 71, 72… Connecticut co-eds young ladies going to school at a university in Connecticut and surprise! Even in this rather conservative North England locale, young women going to college in Connecticut had diverse and complex sexual lives.

[Fraser Brown · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found this in a second hand store in my mid-twenties and couldn't not buy it! Just had to have it on the shelf in a prominent position for the ladies to see although it wasn't quite the read I'd hoped it would be.

[Mills College Library]

155.34 F536 1973