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Female Copulatory Orgasm

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Orgasm triggered by sexual intercourse.

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  1. State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY, USA

    John P. Towne & Gordon G. Gallup Jr

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  1. Oakland Univ Dept of Psycholgy, Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Viviana Weekes-Shackelford

  2. Department of Psychology, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

  3. Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford

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Towne, J.P., Gallup, G.G. (2016). Female Copulatory Orgasm. In: Weekes-Shackelford, V., Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_3825-1

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