Monday, February 26, 2007
Unsolved Sex Science Mysteries: The Orgasm, Revealed!
filed under: Do It for Science by Melissa Gira
From a review by Tim Spector of The Science of Orgasm, via Mind Hacks: 
Orgasms apparently alter pain perception and increase pain thresholds, and this link may explain bizarre reports of women having orgasms during childbirth.
Bizarre, you say? I don’t think this is science hitting on (right there, yes!) the clitoral truth, so much as totally not dealing with the concept that mothers can come. I can’t claim that my studies are peer reviewed, but I have heard around that contractions of the vaginal wall go with both territories.
(Ideally, orgasms also accompany contraception. Even more ideally: two orgasms or more.)
However, just when I was ready for the truth — a clear definition of orgasm and where it arises in the brain — I was told it was not a reflex, only a perception of neural activity and, even worse, probably a form of diffuse consciousness in an as yet undiscovered fifth dimension.
Though this might just be a pretty metaphor, or worse, a veil thrown over this gap in the science of sex, either way, the hint of female orgams perhaps not even existing if they can’t be quantified is not unfamiliar. Reminds me of the few lovers I’ve had who thought it was true measure of their abilities to count “how many times” to the exclusion of all other mutual feedback — and it’s not like I go to the bedroom with a clipboard and a lab coat.
At least, not unless we’ve negotiated that first.
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