The Playboy Advisor

October, 1994

What's the earliest description of sex that clearly depicts a woman reaching orgasm as we know it today? We have Onan spilling his seed on the ground, but when did women first confess to sexual pleasure?--R. E., Chicago, Illinois.In "History Laid Bare," a collection of ancient sex accounts, Richard Zacks provides an observation on orgasm from the father of medicine, Hippocrates, circa 400 B.C.: "During intercourse, once a woman's genitals are vigorously rubbed and her womb titilla...