Sexology and Chronometry: Three Milestones In this article I want to do three things. First, I provide an overview of data pertaining to the chronology of what are usually referred to as three milestones in sexual autobiography: first orgasm (orgasmarche), first ejaculation (oigarche), and first nocturnal emission. Second, I point out the methodological problems associated with the measurement of these variables. Third, I want to situate these problems in a culturalist perspective. Specifically, I want to examine the pedagogical status of pleasure as well as the cultural underpinnings of the notion of a psychosexual milestone. By this I want to specify the (uncontroversial) observation that orgasms are "cultural" in terms of their occurrence as well as perceived salience, necessity, and "age appropriateness."
