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A woman can derive sexual pleasure from exercise
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
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An ordinary woman can get sexual pleasure without resorting to sexual activities - it is enough to run, ride a bike, do yoga or just pump up the press.
Is it possible to get sexual satisfaction from simple physical exercises? There is no data on this issue for men, but women are luckier. In recent years, sexologists have been actively discussing the phenomenon of getting an orgasm and simply sexual pleasure from abdominal exercises. Researchers from Indiana University (USA) conducted a fairly extensive survey on this topic, which led them to the following conclusions.
The survey involved 124 women who had experienced orgasm during some form of physical exercise, and 246 women who had received moderate sexual pleasure from the same. The respondents ranged in age from 18 to 69, most were married or "in a relationship," and 69% were heterosexual. It turned out that about 40% of them had experienced such sensations more than ten times, meaning that this was not an exceptional coincidence. Most were able to control their emotions at that moment, but 20% completely lost their heads, despite the fact that they were in a public place.
Most of those who experienced an orgasm did not indulge in any erotic fantasies at that moment. Half of all women experienced a feeling of sexual pleasure from exercises concerning the abdominal muscles, which, as a rule, were preceded by three months of exercises. 26.5% experienced "it" during weightlifting, 20% from yoga, 15.8% from regular cycling, 13.2% from running, 9.6% from walking long distances.
Why this kind of exercise is associated with such sensations remains a mystery. But at least this is one of the first studies to attempt to scientifically organize the data on this phenomenon. The researchers plan to publish their results in the journal Sexual and Relationship Therapy. At the same time, it is noted that the phenomenon is not so rare: it took only five weeks to interview 370 women.
Taking into account the input data, we can conclude that the matter here is probably not in dissatisfaction or nymphomania, since almost all of them lived in a couple with someone and did not suffer from obsessive erotic fantasies. Another question is whether this will please men, whose main life function is handled by an iron weight?
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