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Dr. Thomas Laquer, author of "Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology," is a distinguished history professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Laquer received his PhD from Princeton in 1971 and has since circulated various books and articles predominately on the history of sex. His latest endeavor was published by Zone Books in 2004 and was entitled, "Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation". Laquer is a popular speaker worldwide and is currently completing a book on the subject of death and memory.
In "Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology," the author compares the history of the view of the human body, especially of women, while furnishing the history of men's and women's differing sexual freedom, ideas about sex and gender differences, and how the escalation and downfall of sexual acceptability coincided with society's political reconstruction and reformation throughout time. Although human bodies have forever been......

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