10 Scientific Facts You (Maybe) Don't Know About Orgasm

Women win in duration, men in frequency the female orgasm lasts about 20 seconds, the male orgasm "only" from 3 to 10 seconds. On the other hand, according to an Australian research on heterosexual couples, men have an orgasm in 95% of relationships, women in only 69%.
Things change as sexual orientation changes: while there doesn't seem to be any major difference in the rate of orgasms experienced by gay or straight men, lesbian girls experience 12% more orgasms than heterosexual ones, perhaps due to the longer duration of intercourse ( on average 30-45 minutes against 15-30 minutes).

Here are 10 facts you (maybe) don't know about orgasm

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In the feminine, imagination is essential

While a man can be aroused by just tactile or visual stimuli, a woman also needs a powerful mental stimulus: erotic fantasies or a strong sexual interest in the partner. This means that women, unlike many men, are able to control pleasure , delaying its peak until the end (there is no female premature ejaculation). And it also explains why the pharmaceutical companies that work on "female viagra" have not so far had satisfactory results.

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But we're not that different

Between male and female orgasms there are also different points of contact, for example in the way pleasure is perceived. While brain activation during genital stimulation (i.e. , arousal , arousal) involves different brain areas in men and women , brain activity during orgasm is the same in males and females.

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Why do we lose control?

Furthermore, the lateral orbitofrontal cortex, involved in self-evaluation and self-control, "shuts down" during the climax of pleasure in both genders. Finally, everyone gets sleepy after intercourse, due to the peak of the hormone prolactin, 4 times higher after a sexual act than after masturbation.

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Wet dreams and multiple orgasms are evenly distributed

Science seems to dismantle some clichés about sexual prerogatives considered exclusively male or only female. Nocturnal orgasms, once thought to be male characteristics, are actually "unisex". 37% of women have experienced them at least once in the past, and 30% have had one in the past year. While multiple orgasms, traditionally associated with women (who unlike men do not need a refractory period, that is, an obligatory break, after pleasure) are actually also possible in men: without ejaculation, just before or just after the "main" orgasm.

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The female one is not used to conceive

If the male orgasm plays a fundamental role in achieving ejaculation, and therefore in conception, the female one - although very important in a relationship - does not seem to play an essential role in fertility . At the beginning of the twentieth century it was believed that the contractions caused by the apex of female pleasure convey the sperm faster towards the cervix, increasing the chances of conceiving ( sucking theory ). But laboratory experiments performed in the 1950s on volunteers, which included radio-opaque artificial sperm and scientific self-masturbation in front of an X-ray machine, ruled this out. In the male case, the link between orgasm and fertility is clear.

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Cures hiccups

A clinical case described in 2000 tells of a patient who recovered from 4 days of hiccups thanks to an orgasm. In fact, sexual activity stimulates the vagus nerve, which controls the heart and digestive tract without our being aware of it. This is why sex is thought to be the best remedy for some forms of incurable hiccups.

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The revenge of the clitoris

After centuries of studies, which saw the "right" sexuality in penetration, a new research came with some revolutionary research by female scientists.
The first is the Hite Report. Written by Shere Hite, an American sexologist and feminist of German origin, it is the result of thousands of interviews done for her degree thesis at Columbia University in New York. Only one in 3000 women reported reaching orgasm through penetration, while 96%, according to the experiments, it was reached in an average of 4 minutes with clitoral stimulation alone.
Subsequent studies by the American biologist Elizabeth Lloyd lowered the percentage of women able to reach orgasm with penetration to 1 in 4 (and in any case by indirect stimulation of the clitoris).

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Where is the orgasm headquarters located?

Sensory pleasure receptors are mostly located on the genital organs, but the deep origin of orgasm is located in the sacral plexus spinal nerve (which forms from the spinal cord).
Injuries to this nerve can lead to erectile dysfunction, poor lubrication, and reduced ability to reach orgasm. Knowing this helps to understand the true nature of orgasm, which is nothing more than a reflex of the autonomic nervous system, the same that controls other involuntary functions such as digestion and heartbeat.

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Female Ejaculation

One of the many "dark spots" of female orgasm concerns the nature of the lubricating fluid produced during intercourse. Since males and females are the same in embryonic life, it could be fluid emitted from a residue of prostate tissue; it could also be manufactured by some glands (which is the Bartholin's glands, known as "female prostate").
Alternatively, it could be produced by exuding the mucosa wall of the vagina.
The vagina, like the penis, also has spongy tissue which, during arousal phase, swells due to the blood supply, compressing the urethra and avoiding the urge to urinate during intercourse.

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The G-spot?

Nobody looks for it anymore. The presence of spongy tissue around the clitoris, and up to a depth of about 10 cm, is at the origin of the theorization, in the 1950s, of the famous "G-spot", the Holy Grail of female sexuality, hypothesized by the German gynecologist Ernst Grafenberg. It would be a particularly sensitive and innervated area of the anterior wall of the vagina, but after the first enthusiasm of the 2000s, in which it was claimed to have been found, the most recent research has denied its existence, having failed to find it. There would be no "magic button".

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