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Orgasm occurs after stimulation of the genitals or erogenous zones. It’s the peak of sexual arousal and causes intense feelings of pleasure. Orgasms have several positive effects on overall health. Everyone experiences sexual climax differently, which is normal and healthy. But some factors can make it difficult to achieve orgasm.
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An orgasm is the height or peak of sexual arousal when the body releases sexual tension and pressure. It involves very intense feelings of pleasure in your genitals and throughout your body.
An orgasm usually lasts a few seconds and feels very good.
Orgasm occurs during sexual stimulation of your genitals and sexual (erogenous) zones of your body. These include the:
An orgasm can occur during masturbation or during sex with a partner. It is one of four stages in the body’s sexual response cycle :
Having an orgasm is also called climaxing, cumming, or having the “big O.”
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Certain things happen throughout your body during orgasm:
Muscle contractions play an important role in orgasm. For example, the muscles of your vagina and uterus often contract. This may cause a small amount of fluid to release from your genitals. Likewise, the muscles at the base of your penis contract, which usually leads to ejaculation (when the body releases semen).
In the few minutes after orgasm, your body slowly returns to its normal state. As you recover:
Some people may become sexually aroused again a few minutes after orgasm and can have multiple orgasms. Some need more time before they can orgasm again. This differs widely from person to person.
There are different kinds of orgasms, including:
Orgasm is generally intense and pleasurable. But it can feel different for everyone, and it can even feel different for a person each time. All of the differences are normal and healthy.
During orgasm, your body releases dopamine, known as “the feel-good hormone,” and oxytocin, sometimes called “the love drug.” These hormones increase feelings of happiness and other positive emotions, and they counteract the “stress hormone,” cortisol.
Many people have to experiment with different methods and communicate well with their partners before they can achieve orgasm.
Other factors also can interfere with the ability to reach sexual climax:
If you have trouble having an orgasm and it bothers you, talk to a healthcare provider. Some people have sexual dysfunction , disorders that interfere with orgasm. You can speak to a primary care provider (PCP) to learn more. Or, to address sexual dysfunction in females , you may want to visit a gynecologist.
Research indicates that orgasms have several health benefits, including improvements in:
An orgasm is a pleasurable feeling at the height of sexual arousal. Everyone experiences orgasm differently, and many factors can affect your ability to climax. Talk to a healthcare provider if trouble reaching orgasm is bothering you.
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Corey Binns
published June 28, 2010
Clinically speaking, an orgasm is just a series of involuntary muscle contractions. But unlike a charley horse, these spasms turn your legs into jelly for an entirely different reason.
It's a great pleasure for some , a frustrating puzzle for others and still much of a mystery to sex researchers, said Debby Herbenick, sexual health educator at The Kinsey Institute and author of "Because It Feels Good" (Rodale, 2009).
During sexual excitement , the heart rate can double, blood rushes to the genitals, muscles tighten, and chemicals and hormones such as oxytocin flood the body. At orgasm, muscles in the pelvis contract, and the body begins to return to a more normal state.
Men and women report similar orgasmic sensations. In one survey, volunteers were asked to describe the sensations they experienced during an orgasm , and doctors were unable to distinguish men's answers from women's.
For both sexes, orgasms last for only about 20 seconds. Still, their effects on a person's health can be long-lasting.
Studies have shown orgasms can reduce stress, improve sleep, decrease the risk of prostate cancer and endometriosis, and bring pain relief.
Scientists have many theories about why orgasms exist. Men commonly orgasm when they ejaculate. Because ejaculating can lead to pregnancy, some believe the male orgasm's sole purpose lies in reproduction.
Why women orgasm is less clear, Herbenick said.
A few researchers controversially suggest that orgasms act as a matchmaker for women. Mr. Right, they say, will make orgasms easier to achieve. Another theory claims that the contractions of the uterus during orgasm actually pull sperm into the uterus, therefore also assisting reproduction, but women don't need to orgasm to become pregnant.
Some people think it's just a sort of leftover characteristic that women have sort of like why men have nipples even though they don't need them, Herbenick said. In any case, while we sort it out, they're certainly a fun way to pass the time.
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Anyone who's had an orgasm is likely to describe what it feels like totally differently. If I were to take a stab at it, I'd say it's like genital pins and needles, or a sexy electric shock that spreads out slowly from a central point... kind of like how those fancy French dudes make crepes. And, while many of us want to learn how to orgasm , and know an orgasm is something that happens when sex or stimulation feels really bloody good, do we actually know what it is? I spoke to leading sexual neuroscientist, founder of the biotechnology firm Liberos, Dr Nicole Prause to find out what the hell is going on when we orgasm.
As NHS puts it, "An orgasm is a feeling of intense sexual pleasure that happens during sexual activity."
Dr Prause explains, "Orgasm is eight to twelve highly stereotyped contractions. The first two are about 0.8 seconds apart, and each later one becomes further and further apart. Those contractions happen in the pelvis, and they can be detected in the vagina or the anus. In guys [and people with penises], we would say contractions are measured just in the butt."
Yeah, so, Dr Prause likens the contractions to having a really good wee. "My sense is that the contractions themselves only feel good in the same way that urination feels good." When you're doing all that sexy stuff, the whole area you're stimulating becomes engorged and your sensitivity changes. "I think the orgasm is happening around the same time lots of other pleasurable stuff is going on," Dr Prause says.
"The orgasm itself is not the centre of opioid release"
"Contractions are pushing the blood back out of the genital area at the conclusion of sex. So, the orgasm itself is not the centre of opioid release [the bit that feels really good, BTW], that probably happens beforehand."
Weirdly, there isn't a lot of research in that area. In fact, Dr Prause says, "We still don’t know how orgasms are triggered, but there are lots of theories about it. My favourite one is that orgasm is triggered somewhat like a seizure, in that there will be a lot of neurons firing at the same time together, which causes reflex.
"So an orgasm is a reflex in the sense that once those contractions start they don’t stop, like a sneeze. To have a lot of neurons firing together, that’s what many think causes seizures. And normally the brain doesn’t allow you to go there because there are risks."
Basically, Dr Prause thinks orgasm might be a unique state because the brain has to release control to allow a lot of the synchronised neuron firing, which then triggers the reflex that results in those contractions.
Research has been carried out involving getting guys and people with penises to turn on a vibrator and explain how they feel. Typically, they'll say it's weird and won't get an erection for a while. It's only when they're shown pornography that they become aroused and would have an orgasm. So, what does this mean?
"That speaks to the necessity of having the mind in a sexual state," Dr Prause says. "Even though they were getting direct genital stimulation, without their brain understanding that stimulus and feeling, it wouldn’t manifest that way [in an orgasm]. So you have to have your mind understanding a cue, or feeling of being sexual."
Unfortunately, this research hasn't been carried out with women and vulva-having participants.
"We always tell this story that the idea of multiple orgasms in men [and people who have penises] is quite rare," Dr Prause says. "And I don’t think that’s the case anymore. Mostly because women who say they have multiple orgasms, we find they’re not actually having contractions. My sense is these women are having some kind of pleasurable experience - I don’t think they’re lying to us or deceiving the trials - but they’re not having actual physical climax."
Currently, there is no scientific definition for multiple orgasms. "Something we’re speculating about is those who seem to have the longest latency between those multiple orgasms may be having separate events," Dr Prause explains. "When there's five to 10 minutes between orgasms and contractions, I would say they are pretty separate events.
Dr Prause also says those advice articles you'll see on "How to give a woman five orgasms in three minutes" are just plain BS. "I see those, and I'm doing the math and knowing that isn’t even possible."
But, she wants to make clear that she's not in the business of telling anyone the orgasms they have don't count. "From the perspective of women and orgasms, I’m happy to describe how physiologists define these things. But if you think you’re having them and you’re having fun, I don’t want to tell you that's not good enough . I realise there’s a high risk of that with this kind of data. I don't want to yuck anyone's yum."
Although it may feel like you sometimes have an orgasm that comes directly from your clit, or from inside your vagina, Dr Prause says you're probably not experiencing these from different areas at all.
This is because even if you just have vaginal penetration, without any direct clit stimulation, your clitoral legs are being stimulated inadvertently from inside your vagina. "So you can’t have vaginal penetration that doesn’t involve the clitoris," she adds. "If you say, 'I experienced it as a clitoral orgasm', I don’t doubt the sensations are there but the physiology isn’t. There’s no difference we’ve ever seen between someone having a clitoral orgasm or a vaginal orgasm, it’s the same characteristics and stereotypical pattern of contractions. I totally appreciate it might feel it’s coming from different places, though."
Dr Nicole Prause latest published work looked into how using Happy Rabbit vibrators affected the length of people's orgasms. The study for Lovehoney involved 17 women, and found with a vibrator, orgasms were 17% longer when using the sex toy (23.3 seconds compared to 19.9 seconds using their hand).
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