5 facts about female orgasm

• Author: Kind Babes
• Filed under: Love n Romance Tips, Must Read
• Date: Jun 21,2009

G spot is real

The G spot is a small region in the vagina that, if stimulated, can produce wildly intense orgasms – or so goes the popular claim. But, since decades, strong evidence for the region’s existence was harder to find than the spot itself. However, in 2008, an Italian research team solved the mystery after they found anatomical differences between women who could have G-spot orgasms and women who couldn’t.

Brain switches off

It’s folk wisdom that people can’t think straight when they have sex on their minds, and a brain scanning study has now showed that many areas of women’s brains are deactivated during orgasm, including those involved in emotion. Parts of the brain that govern fear and anxiety are switched off when a woman is having an orgasm but remain active if she is faking it. As a woman climaxes, an area of the brain governing emotion is largely deactivated.

 Many women can’t have orgasms

Around 43 per cent of women in the US have some sort of problem with their sex lives. Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) is so common that the very idea that it is a medical disorder has come under attack and thus efforts to develop drugs to treat it are underway. Researchers find it baffling that so many women are unable to have orgasms during penetrative sex, but can experience the same during masturbation.

 Genes affect orgasm frequency

It’s official! Genes do play a role in women’s orgasm. According to the first genetic study of the female orgasm, up to 45 per cent of the variation in women’s ability to have them could be down to genes. Many women never have orgasms during intercourse, and some also cannot have them through masturbation. Some of this may be down to external factors like upbringing, but the genetic factor is significant.

 Technology can Help

Perhaps the most extreme solution for sexual dysfunction among women is the so-called ‘orgasmatron’ – an implant inserted into the spinal cord, which stimulates the user when switched on via a remote control. Despite an initial struggle to find subjects for clinical testing, the device is now in development. It stimulates a woman to a pre-orgasmic state with a pulsating current. Critics are scoffing, but some women sure have reasons to feel happy.