Did you arrive? No, I did not, but I had a very nice time.
June 26, 2015 9:53 AM Subscribe
Inspired by this thread about unintentional historical double entendres, I'm looking for a science fiction short story that was published twenty or so years ago.
It would have been printed in Analog or Asimov's. It was in the form of a scholarly essay from the future, when the orgasm was a forgotten, poorly understood phenomenon. The title was something like "Twenty Types of Historical Orgasm" and had nineteen poorly-translated double entendres with form of "to arrive" instead of "to come."
The story ended with one type, the pseudo-orgasm, that the future historians could not figure out, which was of course the real orgasm. It was described very nearly as follows:
It would have been printed in Analog or Asimov's. It was in the form of a scholarly essay from the future, when the orgasm was a forgotten, poorly understood phenomenon. The title was something like "Twenty Types of Historical Orgasm" and had nineteen poorly-translated double entendres with form of "to arrive" instead of "to come."
The story ended with one type, the pseudo-orgasm, that the future historians could not figure out, which was of course the real orgasm. It was described very nearly as follows:
"'I am arriving! I am arriving! Oh, deity!' ...even though no travel was involved."I feel like I have all the information needed to Google this story, but my Google-fu has failed me. If anyone knows it, it'll be the hive mind, right?
Best answer: Found it! "Fifty Ways to Improve your Orgasm," by Pat Cadigan, Asimov's, April 1992. Now I just need to find it in a readable format. Here's a snippet from Google Books:
posted by infinitewindow at 3:35 PM on June 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
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