Vaginal Orgasm Is Related to Better Mental Health and Is Relevant to Evolutionary Psychology: A Response to Zietsch etal.

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3523-3525

  Brody, Stuart ^a   Costa, Rui M ^a   Hess, Ursula ^b   Weiss, Petr ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANORGASMIA; CLITORIS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MENTAL HEALTH; ORGASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; VAGINA;

EID: 82955247621     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2011.02444.x     Document Type: Letter

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