What do you know about the female orgasm?
Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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Sexologists with academic degrees still argue how many types of orgasm in a woman: one, two or more.
"Vaginal or clitoral orgasm?" - this is the question that sexologists have been trying to solve for several decades. Speech, as it is easy to guess, is about different types of female orgasm. Strangely enough, there is still no complete clarity, one is an orgasm or two are different. There is, for example, the opinion that there is no vaginal orgasm at all. It would seem that it's easier: ask women if they are satisfied with the stimulation of only the clitoris or only the vagina. But, as is usually the case in science, reasoning from the position of common sense is useless: physiologists know that the front wall of the vagina is most intricately linked to the inner parts of the clitoris, and stimulation of the vagina without stimulation of the clitoris is practically impossible.
A discussion article in the Journal of Sexual Medicine is devoted to discussion of issues related to female orgasm.
Is it possible to say with certainty that vaginal orgasm is simultaneously a clitoral orgasm? But this is judged by the structure of the genital organs; on the neurophysiological level everything looks different. Researchers from the University of Rutgers (USA) conducted a series of experiments that an uninitiated person could well take for shooting eccentric porn: the scientists forced women to masturbate in various ways while being in the fMRI scanner. In the end, it turned out that although the stimulation of the vagina is inextricably linked with the stimulation of the clitoris, different (though overlapping) areas respond to the different kinds of orgasm in the brain. Moreover, the uterus is added to the clitoral and vaginal zone, which responds to deep stimulation in the cervical region. That is, the brain clearly separates what is being stimulated and what we get pleasure from.
In favor of the neurological difference between the types of female orgasm, medical research data also speak: women with spinal cord injuries could not experience clitoral orgasm, but they received satisfaction from stimulation of the vagina. In general, it seems that the female brain can summarize the sensations for the body from a variety of stimuli, not necessarily of an erotic nature: it is enough to recall the study devoted to the "physical" orgasm. Female orgasm causes controversy not only about how it is arranged, but why it is needed. Of course, the feeling of pleasure is a powerful stimulus to marital behavior and reproduction. But that's not all: it turns out, the stimulation of the legendary point G reduces pain. A simple pressure on this point raises the pain threshold by 47%, and if the woman still enjoys it - then 84%. Well, on the occasion of orgasm, the increase in the pain threshold exceeds 100%. Here you can fantasize about some types of sexual games for a long time, but, according to scientists, this function of point G is primarily important in childbirth. When the child passes the genital tract, he presses on point G, thereby reducing the birth pain.
There is an opinion that orgasm is important for the physical and psychological health of women, and not everyone, namely vaginal. It seems to help to avoid the emergence of various vicious psychological mechanisms - for example, the emergence of pain due to unresolved psychological problems, the transfer of emotions from one to another, the separation of negative experiences and the causes that caused them. However, the data on the "health-improving" effect of vaginal orgasm are too contradictory and not all are taken seriously. But what about the myth of insensitivity of the vagina, modern sexologists are completely unanimous. Strangely enough to hear it, such a theory existed, and even had experimental confirmation. Now she is unanimously called to put in the archive: both the walls of the vagina and the cervix are quite sensitive and can be sources of sexual satisfaction.
But many scientific superstitions regarding the physiology and psychology of the woman's intimate life are still unequivocally neither confirmed nor refuted. So to solve the mysteries of female orgasm, sexologists call for the widest multidisciplinary union - and men can only envy what excitement this subject causes in the scientific community.