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Published Sunday, July 24, 2005 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

THE PERFECT ORGASM? Before we get ahead of ourselves, let me just remind you that this is the title of Joan Elizabeth Lloyd's new book. Men, don't jump to conclusions -- the perfect orgasm is not any orgasm, otherwise, we wouldn't see so many sex guidebooks, now, would we? And women, don't you jump to any conclusions, either, just because a man wrote this blog post. And don't everyone else get all confused, since this 60-something grandmother from New York is not Dr. Elisabeth Lloyd, who got people talking this spring with her theory that female orgasms are just for fun -- nothing more, nothing less. The New York Times even wrote an extensive article about the latter Lloyd's book. Anyhoo. When the Joan E. Lloyd book showed up in our newsroom, after the giggling subsided, questions remained. What could we possibly learn about sex that we didn't already know? Are there new discoveries? The answers, I guess, depend upon how much you know about the proverbial birds and bees bidness.

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