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ORGASM
If effective sexual stimulation continues late in the plateau phase, a point may be reached where the body suddenly discharges its accumulated sexual tension in a peak of sexual arousal called orgasm. Orgasm is sometimes called climax or coming. Eric Berne observed, "Climax started off as a decent enough word, but it has been so overworked on the newsstands that it now sounds like the moment when two toasted marshmallows finally get stuck to each other." We also prefer the word "orgasm." Biologically, orgasm is the shortest phase of the sexual response cycle, usually lasting for only a few seconds during which rhythmic muscular contractions produce intense physical sensations followed by rapid relaxation. Psychologically, orgasm is usually a time of pleasure and suspended thought — the mind turns inward to enjoy the personal experience.
Orgasms - vary not only for one person at different times but also for each individual. Sometimes orgasm is an explosive, ecstatic avalanche of sensations, while others are milder, less intense, and less dramatic. While "an orgasm is an orgasm is an orgasm," one orgasm may differ from another just as a glass of ice water tastes better and is more satisfying if you are hot and thirsty than if you are cool and not thirsty at all. Different intensities of orgasms arise from physical factors such as fatigue and the time since the last orgasm as well as from a wide range of psychosocial factors, including mood, relation to partner, activity, expectations, and feelings about the experience.
For all these reasons, trying to define or describe orgasm is a difficult task because each individual's subjective experience includes a psychosocial as well as physiological dimension. Measuring intense muscular contractions during one orgasm does not mean that it is necessarily perceived as "better than" another orgasm with less intense bodily changes. A milder physiological orgasm may be experienced as Digger, better, or more satisfying than a physiologically more intense one.
Until the mid-twentieth century, many people (including some medical authorities) believed that women were not capable of orgasm. This belief undoubtedly reflected a cultural bias: sex was seen as something the man did to the woman for his own gratification. Women were told for centuries to "do their wifely duties" by making themselves available to their husbands for sex, yet were also cautioned that "proper" women did not enjoy sex. Since a sign of physical pleasure or orgasm was thought to be "unladylike," it followed that women were not able to have
orgasms. In other words, females were told "You can't have any physical sexual release, and even if you can, you shouldn't." It is now clear, however, that orgasm occurs in both sexes.
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