Dr. Jim Pfaus

About eight seconds later, she gets another one.

About eight seconds later, she gets another one.

In that 10-minute period, her prolactin rose almost 50% above baseline, which is normal for what masturbation would do if you actually were masturbating your clitoris to orgasm.

Well, David, you can't fake the prolactin.

I mean, I can't sit here and go, I'm going to rise my prolactin because it isn't going to go up.

It's very particular things make your prolactin rise in your blood.

And orgasm is one of those.

And when you relate what she did in terms of her prolactin to what other people have found with masturbation and prolactin, sure enough, it's virtually identical.

So you can't fake that.

It's an objective marker of orgasm.

Well, David, that's exactly right.

I mean, you own your orgasms.

I mean, we love to say, oh, you gave me this and you did this, you did that.

We always attribute our internal state to somebody else, right?

Whether it's bad or good.

But in this case, I think it's important, radical perhaps, that we own our own orgasms.

We are what give ourselves orgasms.

Our sensory nerves coming in from our genitals give us our orgasms.

We let go into an orgasm, not, oh, my partner made me feel this way.

Well, it is a shared experience, and I think that's the point, right?