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The Clitoral Truth, 2nd Edition

About Pleasure, Orgasm, Female Ejaculation, the G-Spot, and Masturbation

by Rebecca Chalker

Book cover for The Clitoral Truth, 2nd Edition
Book cover for The Clitoral Truth, 2nd Edition

Illustrated by Fish

The Clitoral Truth goes beyond all other sexuality self-help guides by providing a surprising “inside” look at women’s genital anatomy, and revealing that what is almost universally thought of as a sensitive pea-sized nubbin is, in reality, a powerful, responsive organ system. In The Clitoral Truth, women's health writer and activist Rebecca Chalker reveals every aspect of this multifaceted organ and how the parts work together to produce pleasure and orgasm.

This frank, frisky, user-friendly guide also delves into the controversy over female ejaculation and explores why so few women have discovered their potential to experience multiple orgasms. It also reports on why so many women of all ages fake orgasms, and it settles the controversy over the G-Spot once and for all. Can’t find your G-Spot? Hey, you’ve got something better! Here are vivid personal accounts, a savvy, in-depth survey of female sexuality resources, and the bold and explicit illustrations of San Francisco artist Fish. The Clitoral Truth surveys the numerous ways that women have begun to transform the deeply entrenched male-centered model of sexuality to actively redefine it by emphasizing full-body pleasure. And, likely, better orgasms!

Book cover for The Clitoral Truth, 2nd Edition
Book cover for The Clitoral Truth, 2nd Edition

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“Rebecca Chalker has written a serious, lively, informative, and let’s hope liberating opus on the organ of female sexual pleasure.”

“The Clitoral Truth is Our Bodies, Ourselves; your favorite textbook; a Nancy Drew mystery; and the Good Vibrations catalogue rolled into one.”

“In this handy book, Chalker . . . writes about the rarely discussed subject of female ejaculation, and revels in the many splendors of multiple orgasms.”

“The Clitoral Truth truly reflects the author’s impressive commitment to guide readers to a level of exploration that can only be described as ‘The Joy of Feminist Sex.’”

“As a writer who covers sexuality and women's health, I've read a lot about female sexual anatomy. So, when I opened up Rebecca Chalker's The Clitoral Truth, 2nd Edition, I was expecting to read a lot of things I'd heard before: that the clitoris is central to most female orgasms, that the vagina expands during sex, etc. And I did read those things — but I also read a lot more that not even I'd heard before.”

Rebecca Chalker

REBECCA CHALKER is an internationally renowned women’s health writer and activist, and her books include The Complete Cervical Cap Guide, Overcoming Bladder Disorders, and A Woman’s Book of Choices: Abortion, Menstrual Extraction, RU-486. Chalker is also the editor of A New View of a Woman’s Body and How to Stay Out of the Gynecologist’s Office. Her articles have appeared in Ms., the Village Voice, and Self, as well as several peer-reviewed academic journals. Chalker teaches at Pace University and lives in New York City.