Dr. Jim Pfaus

I know it sounds impossible, and that's one of the reasons why we studied it.

Because somebody can say, oh, I can give myself an orgasm without even touching my clitoris.

And you can look at that and say, okay, is that really true?

And there are many ways to test whether that's true.

I mean, some people would say, well, just take someone's word for it.

But, you know...

There are many people who say that hypnogenic orgasms probably aren't real and are a party trick, but we've tested that as well.

But I got to tell you that there are objective markers of orgasm.

There's hormones that flood through your system.

There's also the pelvic floor movements that are very characteristic of orgasm.

I think what people tend to forget is that orgasm is a sensory motor reflex, right?

in the spinal cord it is, and in the brain it is.

And you're getting sensory input from your genitals or from other erotic zones on your body, but there is a motor component to it.

And your brain tags that motor component as being very, very important.

So although we may feel the motor component of it, the pelvic floor movements that accompany orgasm, people tend to say, well, my orgasm must be clitoral or vaginal or for us, penile, because it's coming from the sensory input and they're not thinking about the motor output.

But your brain has motor memory.

And that's one of the things that when you fantasize or even you do pelvic floor exercises, some people discover this with Tantra, where they're doing this pelvic floor movements, they're actually stimulating the very nerves that they would be stimulating by touching their genitals.

Well, the motor component is a memory of what, remember, memory both has its own inputs and outputs.

It has its memory for what did it and a memory for how it acted when it was done.

If you can think about it that way, then you can think about the fact that, you know, when you have a memory of chocolate,