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Female Orgasm has been a mystery for centuries. 100 years ago, it was not accepted normal to talk about the female orgasm in the society, it was a shame to mention about the female orgasm. Works  of Sigmud Freud, Kraft Ebbing, Havelock Ellis, Van de Velde, Wilhelm Reich started to mention about the female orgasm. During Victorian Era pleasure from sex for women was prohibited.

It was Kinsey Report that revealed many facts about Male and Female Sexual Behavior in 1950’s. Early 1960s William Masters and Virginia Johnson made detailed research about the sexual response of humans in the laboratory among nearly 300 people. Their famous book ‘Human Sexual Response’ revealed many facts about male and female sexuality. They defined female orgasm, status orgasmus and othe facts about female orgasm such as tenting effect of the uterus during orgasm. 

Early 1980s Ladas, Whipple and Perry studied the existence of Grafenberg’s Spot (G-Spot) and female ejaculation. They showed among 134 women that G-Spot existed. They also stressed the importance of healty Pubococygous muscle (PC-Muscle) in female orgasm. It was known from Kegel’s time that improving PC muscles resulted in more powerful orgasms in females. PC-muscles became so important that, some women experienced orgasm without any touch by only using their PC-muscles. In a French film ‘Female Orgasm Explained’ (it can be found in google video) starts with a woman who experiences a strong orgasm by only contracting her PC-muscles.

During 1990s and 2000s Patricia Taylor, Alan and Donna Brauer wrote books about expanded or extended orgasms, which can be described as a long lasting orgasm state that can occur in some women. An estimate, for today, is 10 to 15 % of women can experience expanded orgasms and/or status orgasmus if they are trained for such a response. The frequency is expected to increase in this century, when the women can understand their capacities to attain expanded orgasms.

Eastern sexual techniques and eastern philosophies were defining such ecstatic climaxes in their literature for centuries. Tantric sex techniques have stressed the potentials of females to have a deeper and more profound orgasm. People who are working in Tantra and Tantric philosophies are aware of such potentials of human female.

Today, we know five different variations of female orgasm:

Clitoral Orgasm: Attained by the direct or indirect stimulation of clitoris body, bulbus, vestibule or particularly the glans. The stimulation technique is generally circular movements of fingers over the clitoral hood, stimulating the glans clitoris. Another technique is cunnilingus, stimulating the glans clitoris by tongue, making up and down movements with tongue. Dildo vibrators or message vibrators stimulate clitoris very powerfully to induce a clitoral orgasm. Also intercourse induces clitoral orgasm by stimulating the corpus cavernosum of clitoris, which is filled with blood and swells during excitatement phase, and stimulating the glans clitoris by means of movements of the penis moving the clitoral hood back and forth. Pudental nerve innervates the glans of clitoris, while pelvic nerve innervates some other parts of clitoris. Paccini corpuscles in the clitoris are responsible for the sensation of heat, vibration,   movement and pleasure which result in orgasms. Normaly many women attain orgasm through the stimulation of clitoris as Masters and Johnson stated in 1966. According to some reports (Hite 1975, Cosmo 1983 etc.) only 30 % of women can attain orgasm through intercourse, the rest needs clitoral stimulation. The reasons for this ratio can be discussed and may be the result of many different factors. Today we know that the main orgasm triggering locus is clitoris in investigating the female orgasms. Clitoral orgasms are felt in a local area at the pubis unlike vaginal orgasms.

Vaginal Orgasms: During intercourse some parts of clitoris may be stimulated, as well. However, mostly vaginal orgasms are believed to occur because of the stimulation of G-Spot, PC-muscles, vaginal walls and uteral cervix. Vaginal orgasms are controlled by pelvic nerve innervation. The women who can use PC-muscles are able to give a better stimulation to the pelvic nerve triggered orgasms, because most of the PC-muscles are also innervated by pelvic nerve. PC-muscle tonus is also very important to feel the intercourse better and feel the unification with the partner. Today only 30 % of women may have vaginal orgasms, however by training, education and practicing it is estimated that this ratio will increase to 70-80 % in this century. Vaginal orgasms are felt thorough the whole body, and they are more satisfactory to some women as experienced through the rest of the body other than only genitals.

Blended Orgasms: Blended orgasms are unified form of clitoral and vaginal orgasms. A woman who can attain vaginal orgasm can easily have a blended orgasm by the stimulation of clitoris, while having a vaginal orgasm, through intercourse or by other means. Blended orgasms are much more satisfactory than clitoral and vaginal orgasms alone. During blended orgasms, whole body is involved in the contractions and a genitals/body response is observed. Once a woman experiences blended orgasms she would not prefer the others alone, because blended orgasms are much more intense and repetitive, also more satisfactory. Multi orgasmic women may experience blended orgasms. Some hypersexual women experience blended orgasms.

Status Orgasmus: Status orgasmus is first defined by Masters and Johnson as an orgasm lasting 10-60 seconds. They described a woman experiencing orgasm for 43 seconds. After the works of some other scientists, it is understood that status orgasmus can be longer than once thought. Our information about status orgasmus is that small orgasms gather up, each lasting for 10-20 seconds, and form a continous tetani of orgasms lasting from 2-5 minutes up to 10-15 minutes. Having refractory periods of nearly 10-20 minutes, these status orgasmus may repeat for a couple hours, while the female may have tens of small, minor orgasms (50 orgasms or more). For status orgasmus very strong sexual stimuli is needed to be continued. Brain/mind takes the major role in status orgasmus. Both clitoris and G-spot, vagina must be stimulated while the female uses her PC-muscles continously. For this she must have trained her PC-muscles for a very long time, she must have very firm PC-muscles, which are now believed to trigger vaginal orgasms. Generally, a form of altered states of consciousness occur in status orgasmus.

Cosmic Orgasm: 'Cosmic' is a very subjective term used to define a trancendantal experience in the consciousness and the orgasmic genitals-body. People say that under effect of some drugs they have experienced cosmic orgasms, feeling orgasm in the whole body, even in every cell! Also there are Tantra practitioners who describe  orgasms similar to cosmic orgasms. The term is not a scientific definition, but used to define a subjective perception of the orgasmic body-mind. The experience is believed  to occur in very few women.

REFERENCES:

Britten Bryce, The Love Muscle: Every Woman’s Guide to Intensifying Sexual Pleasure, N.Y.: Signet Books, 1983.

Chia Mantak  ve Douglas Abrams, The Multi Orgasmic Man, San Fransisco: Harper Collins, 1996.

Fisher Seymour, Female Orgasm, N.Y: Basic Books, 1972.

Fisher Seymour, Understanding the Female Orgasm, London: Penguin Books, 1973-1977.

Ladas Alice Kahn,  Beverly  Whipple, John. D. Perry,  The G-Spot and other Discoveries About Human Sexuality, N.Y.: Henry Holtand Company 2005.

Masters William  ve Virginia Johnson, Human Sexual Response, Boston: Little Brown Company, 1966.

Masters William ve Virginia Johnson Human Sexual Inadequacy, Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1970.

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Masters William, Homosexuality in Perspective, N.Y.: Bantam Books, 1982.

Rhodes Richard, Alan P. Brauer ve, Donna J Brauer, ESO Ecstasy Program: Better, Safer Sexual Intimacy, N.Y.: Grand Central Publishing, 1991.

Taylor Patricia , Expanded Orgasm, Soar to Ecstasy at your Lover's Every Touch, N.Y.: Sourcebooks, 2002

Wade Jane, Transcendent Sex: When Lovemaking Opens the Veil, N.Y.: Pocket Books, 2004.