1. Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (New York: HarperCollins, 2010).

2. Shere Hite, The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2004).

3. Catherine Blackledge, The Story of V: A Natural History of Female Sexuality (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004).

4. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (New York: Barnes and Noble Classics, 2004), 366.

5. Там же, 329–371.

6. Там же, 366.

7. William Wordsworth, “Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood,” in The Major Works, Including the Prelude, Stephen Gill, ed., (New York: Oxford World Classics, 2000): “There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream/The earth, and every common sight/To me did seem/Apparelled in celestial light… trailing clouds of glory do we come/From God, who is our home.”

8. James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, 370.

9. Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (New York: Penguin Books, 2002).

10. Janniko R. Georgiadis and others, “Regional Cerebral Blood Flow Changes Associated with Clitorally Induced Orgasm in Healthy Women,” European Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 24, (2006): 3305–3316.

11. Blaise Pascal, Pensées (New York: Penguin Books, 1996), 148.

12. Kamil Dada, “Dalai Lama Talks Meditation with Stanford Scientists,” The Stanford Daily, .