Status Updates From Orgasmology (Next Wave: New...

Simultaneous orgasm as a signifier of equal companionate marriage.

Simultaneous orgasm as a founding part of heterosexuality. Disciplinary power as a founding part of heterosexuality, normalizing sexuality so it can be measured and administered. Simultaneous orgasm as a form of normalisation. Heteronormativity as beyond sex.

Orgasm as the defining feature that makes a sex act countable. Emerging from Kinsey's sexology.

The modernist attempt to capture orgasm in literature.

Trepidations on writing orgasm because it is unwritable and because it may be too personal to have any generalised value.

Orgasm that can be read two ways, promiscuous and multi perspectival critical figure.

Discussion of how critical butlerian approaches dismiss a material or anatomical account of the orgasm.

This followed by O'Connell's critical medical enquiry into the orgasm.

Jagose making the point that this demonstrates the critical possibility of combining both anatomical and cultural accounts of orgasm.