Mary Roach, author of "Bonk," talks about the science of orgasm in this clip. This video is 20 minutes long but well worth it. For those of you who can't watch it (and fair warning, there are lots of references to anatomy and a video of a pig being inseminated, so if you're at work or hanging out with your uncle Ned, I'd wait until later), I'll highlight some of my favorite points.
"People with spinal cord injuries - paraplegics, quadraplegics - will often develop a very sensitive area right above the level of their injury - there's such a thing as a knee orgasm," Roach says. One woman had an orgasm every time she brushed her teeth (she had to switch to mouthwash because she thought she was possessed by demons).
Some people can think themselves to orgasm.
Doctors can trigger orgasms in beating heart cadavers (people who are legally dead but who are being kept alive on respirators so their organs can be transplanted). There's a precise spot along the spinal column that can cause orgasm if it's triggered.
Although most guys don't "shoot" very far when they ejaculate - most just dribble - the recordholder in Dr. Alfred Kinsey's studies shot nearly eight feet.
Most animals don't register pain or pleasure on their faces, but primates often do - you can see an image of a macaque in the throes of ecstasy
from Kinsey's studies: "Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male."
Fascinating. What's the most bizarre (but true) fact you've heard about sex?
Honestly? The definition. It's so bizarre! It's like, "Hey, how about I put my pee-stick in your vagina and in nine months a child will come out!" SCARY, MAN. SCARY.
LOL my bio teacher made us watch TED talks and give reports on them...
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That was glorious.
one of my birthday cakes that I got for my sweet 16 was really good. my friend who tried is said: wow, I have a mouthgasm.
I've thought myself to orgasm before. And orgasmed maybe five times in my sleep.
Just saying?
Holy shit. Eight feet?! It'd bust a hole in the condom.
@walkintotheseaaa@xanga - Same here, although I've lost count of the times I've orgasmed in my sleep.
I never have sex dreams, but I had a random one. Insane-o-gram.
@InTheThin@xanga - Actually, no. Condoms hold surprisingly well against that. I know a guy that once got it to shoot twelve feet, or so he claimed at least. But he wasn't a very good liar, so I dunno.
@walkintotheseaaa@xanga - I've lost the talent. I used to be able to do it! Maybe if I focus .......
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@aurastar@xanga - Haha I know, I know. I've made condom balloons before, and I was going to say he'd bust a hole through the girl, but I thought that was too crass.
Mary Roach, she wrote Stiff, too! I'll have to check out her other books.
Interesting sex facts. For me, the most striking one is the rats and cheese...I'd say that's mostly accurate with humans, too. Women have an innate ability to multitask and sometimes we can't help but do it without noticing. I guess women rats are the same way.
Also, there are scientists currently studying the laughter of rats (Google it!) . Apparently, if they tickle rats the rats make a high-pitched frequency that releases endorphines. In tests, when they made a button that emitted the noise if pushed, the rats would stand on top of the button and push it repeatedly. Rats like to hear rat laughter!
Knee orgasms. In the words of Quagmire,"you have to believe it's there." LMFAO
@walkintotheseaaa@xanga - Hmmm ... that happened to me a few times. I have no idea what my deal is, but oh well.
@InTheThin@xanga - Haha, definately not, though it'd be funny to see. Like that scene near the begining of the movie Hancock where that girl goes back to his place with him. "Top of the mountain!" or something like that. Hahahaha!!
I have a couple friends that made balloon animals with condoms before. I also have a friend that would buy flavored condoms and chew them like bubble gum! I'm still tempted to try that...
@aurastar@xanga - Gross! Chewing condoms like gum?! It's called chewing gum...much cheaper, and no condom breath.
@InTheThin@xanga - Okay, um... I can't believe I just watched that video the whole way through. Wow.
Haha, condom breath. Wouldn't the same thing happen from giving a guy head? That's why they invented flavored condoms to begin with. Besides, who knows. Maybe they actually like the flavor. Maybe they like their condoms without so much dick in it? XD Now I'm just being silly.
@InTheThin@xanga - If you think I'm not being serious then I'm probably not. Half the time even I can't tell wheather or not I actually mean something. Hard to tell the difference between truth and sarcasm with me.
um, I think the most interesting one I heard is that females can recover more quickly from an orgasm than guys can, much to the dismay of said females. :Þ
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It's ho you make babies.
Totally bizarre, right?
Bizarre fact? Some people don't like sex.
WOAH.
Honestly? The definition. It's so bizarre! It's like, "Hey, how about I put my pee-stick in your vagina and in nine months a child will come out!" SCARY, MAN. SCARY.
LOL my bio teacher made us watch TED talks and give reports on them...
:]
That was glorious.
one of my birthday cakes that I got for my sweet 16 was really good. my friend who tried is said: wow, I have a mouthgasm.
I've thought myself to orgasm before. And orgasmed maybe five times in my sleep.
Just saying?
Holy shit. Eight feet?! It'd bust a hole in the condom.
@walkintotheseaaa@xanga - Same here, although I've lost count of the times I've orgasmed in my sleep.
@walkintotheseaaa@xanga - Strangely, I did that for the first time the other day.
I never have sex dreams, but I had a random one. Insane-o-gram.
@InTheThin@xanga - Actually, no. Condoms hold surprisingly well against that. I know a guy that once got it to shoot twelve feet, or so he claimed at least. But he wasn't a very good liar, so I dunno.
@walkintotheseaaa@xanga - I've lost the talent. I used to be able to do it! Maybe if I focus .......
!
@aurastar@xanga - Haha I know, I know. I've made condom balloons before, and I was going to say he'd bust a hole through the girl, but I thought that was too crass.
Mary Roach, she wrote Stiff, too! I'll have to check out her other books.
Interesting sex facts. For me, the most striking one is the rats and cheese...I'd say that's mostly accurate with humans, too. Women have an innate ability to multitask and sometimes we can't help but do it without noticing. I guess women rats are the same way.
Also, there are scientists currently studying the laughter of rats (Google it!) . Apparently, if they tickle rats the rats make a high-pitched frequency that releases endorphines. In tests, when they made a button that emitted the noise if pushed, the rats would stand on top of the button and push it repeatedly. Rats like to hear rat laughter!
Knee orgasms. In the words of Quagmire,"you have to believe it's there." LMFAO
@walkintotheseaaa@xanga - Hmmm ... that happened to me a few times. I have no idea what my deal is, but oh well.@InTheThin@xanga - Haha, definately not, though it'd be funny to see. Like that scene near the begining of the movie Hancock where that girl goes back to his place with him. "Top of the mountain!" or something like that. Hahahaha!!
I have a couple friends that made balloon animals with condoms before. I also have a friend that would buy flavored condoms and chew them like bubble gum! I'm still tempted to try that...
@aurastar@xanga - Gross! Chewing condoms like gum?! It's called chewing gum...much cheaper, and no condom breath.
Actually, the whole explosive ejaculate subject reminded me of an...amusing youtube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hYiMx_YlOQ
@InTheThin@xanga - Okay, um... I can't believe I just watched that video the whole way through. Wow.
Haha, condom breath. Wouldn't the same thing happen from giving a guy head? That's why they invented flavored condoms to begin with. Besides, who knows. Maybe they actually like the flavor. Maybe they like their condoms without so much dick in it? XD Now I'm just being silly.
@aurastar@xanga - ...what the hell?? lmao
@InTheThin@xanga - If you think I'm not being serious then I'm probably not. Half the time even I can't tell wheather or not I actually mean something. Hard to tell the difference between truth and sarcasm with me.
@walkintotheseaaa@xanga - I do that all the time in my sleep. I wake up because I feel it.
um, I think the most interesting one I heard is that females can recover more quickly from an orgasm than guys can, much to the dismay of said females. :Þ
I thought she was pretty foxy.
Oh my gosh, this was so funny/weird.
LOL. This is funny!!