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The Orgasm Answer Guide

2009 book

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ109254891 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Orgasm Answer Guide is a 2009 book by Beverly Whipple, Barry R. Komisaruk, Sara Nasserzadeh and Carlos Beyer-Flores in which the authors pose 84 questions and answers pertaining to orgasm and other aspects of human sexuality.

The book is a winner of 2010 AASECT Book Award.

It is a more accessible version of the book The Science of Orgasm (2006).

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The public source identifies “The Orgasm Answer Guide” as 2009 book. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Orgasm, Answer and Guide.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2010, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Orgasm, Answer and Guide providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q109254891. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009, 2010 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Orgasm Answer Guide” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.