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  1. Department of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Erika Lorraine Milam

  2. School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, Fife, UK

    Gillian R. Brown

  3. Biohumanities Project, Department of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Stefan Linquist

  4. Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

    Steve Fuller

  5. History and Philosophy of Science Department, Biology Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Elisabeth A Lloyd

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Milam, E.L., Brown, G.R., Linquist, S. et al. Sometimes an Orgasm is Just an Orgasm. Metascience 15, 399–435 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-006-9032-2

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