The Science of Orgasms

Posted on February 13th, 2008 by ecthompson

I couldn’t help myself. When I saw the article, I knew that I had to post it. Unfortunately, reading the article will not made you a better lover or more attractive to the opposite sex. It will just make you a little more knowledgeable about the physiology of sex.

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From LAT:

AS they seek to document and demystify one of life’s great thrills, scientists have run across some real head-scratchers.

How, for example, can they explain the fact that some men and women who are paralyzed and numb below the waist are able to have orgasms?

How to explain the “orgasmic auras” that can descend at the onset of epileptic seizures — sensations so pleasurable they prompt some patients to refuse antiseizure medication? (more…)

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  • medicale
    Interesting! Although I've never read it anywhere, you can have orgasms in dreams too. Maybe this is something men do all the time. The human body continues to amaze me, how much, yet how little we seem to know.
  • medicale
    Interesting! Although I've never read it anywhere, you can have orgasms in dreams too. Maybe this is something men do all the time. The human body continues to amaze me, how much, yet how little we seem to know.
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