The orgasm cure

What if we could expand ecstasy, reduce stress and lift depression, all by delaying and extending orgasm?

Aeon Magazine
Aug 29, 2017 · 22 min read
Leda and the Swan, 1598–1599. Found in the collection of Louvre-Lens. Artist : Rubens, Pieter Paul (1577–1640) — Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images

By Peter von Ziegesar

Perhaps 40 of us, an equal number of men and women, sat on rows of folding metal chairs in a high-ceilinged room in the ground floor of a church in New York’s East Village that had been converted into a community…

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