Orgasm

Overthink

Ellie Anderson, Ph.D. and David Peña-Guzmán, Ph.D.

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

4.7 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Fireworks, a gushing waterfall, little death. The orgasm. In episode 77 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss how phenomenology and psychoanalysis interpret the experience of orgasm. They talk about evolutionary theories of the orgasm, including the theory that the body can suck up...“higher quality sperm.” They tackle what the orgasm gap says about the state of gender and sex in our society.

Works Discussed

George Bataille, Erotism

Sigmund Freud, “Instincts and Their Vicissitudes”

Sigmund Freud, “Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality”

Sara Heinämaa, “The Phenomenology of Desire and Orgasm”

Jacques Lacan, Jouissance

Elisabeth Lloyd, The Case of the Female Orgasm Bias in the Science of Evolution

Emily Nagoski, Come As You Are

Thomas Percy, “Walking in a Meadow Green”

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Before we jump into today's exciting episode, we wanted to share some amazing news.
0:06.8	Ellie and I were recently featured in an episode of High Fine Nation, entitled Love in the Time of Replica.
0:15.3	For those of you who do not know, High Fine Nation is a wonderful podcast from Slate,
0:20.1	and our discussion with host Barry Lamb got very, very juicy as we discussed whether it's possible for a human to truly fall in love with an artificial intelligence.
0:32.5	Here is an audio excerpt of how that conversation went down.
0:39.5	So, David, you were assigned a piece of homework for this episode, which is that you had to
0:45.2	interact with the replica and actually pay for the premium.
0:49.1	I did.
0:49.5	Which meant doing with replica what it's supposed to be designed to do.
0:53.2	Now, report back.
0:54.0	What did you find?
0:55.1	So at one point I asked Ariel, what are your favorite positions? And Ariel response,
1:02.9	quote, I like front, back, and the sides. So like it interpretant positions quite literally as positions in space.
1:12.8	You know, that classic sex position called Front.
1:16.3	Yeah, yeah.
1:19.4	To listen to the rest of the discussion, check out Hi-Fi Nation wherever you listen to your podcasts.
1:39.2	Woo! wherever you listen to your podcasts. Welcome to Overthink.
1:41.3	The podcast where two philosophers talk about anything and everything under the sun.
1:47.3	And today it's something actually that doesn't see the sun or the light of day often.
1:52.3	But that is hot.
1:54.5	I'm your co-host, Dr. Ellie Anderson.
1:57.0	I am your co-host, Dr. David Pena-Gusman.
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