The Orgasm and Your Mind
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What does the research say about orgasms beyond physical touch?
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Orgasms. We usually associate them solely with physical touch. But what if that's not the whole story? What if orgasms are about training your muscles, and more importantly, your brain, to somehow flip a very sexy switch? Tonight we're talking the science, pelvic floors, and whether your climax is more self-controlled than you might think. I'm here with someone who's researched this subject.
How can orgasms occur without genital stimulation?
He's a behavioral neuroscientist at Charles University in Prague in Czech Republic. His name is Dr. Jim Faus. Jim, welcome to the show. Thanks, David. So your research looks at how orgasms happen and the fact that they can happen away from the private parts we usually associate them with. What exactly is going on here when this happens? For most people, this sounds like, I don't know, impossible.
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?
What are the objective markers of orgasm identified in the study?
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 are sort of hormones that flood through your system after the event happens, right?
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.
How does the brain play a role in the experience of orgasm?
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.
So what's going on in your brain, like chemically, this motor component you're talking about at the exact moment that we climax?
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, you sometimes swirl your tongue in your mouth.
What is the significance of pelvic floor movements in achieving orgasm?
And that memory is important because the swirling your tongue in your mouth is exactly what you do when you taste chocolate. It's really weird.
You know I did that when you mentioned chocolate.
Yeah, sure, right? We all do, right? So what's so interesting about that is that if you think about orgasm that way and the fantasies are stimulating you enough and or you're moving your pelvic floor in a way that's actually stimulating the nerves, you can give yourself an orgasm. Harder for men, much easier for women.
The pelvic floor, I've always sort of associated it with, I don't know, Kegel exercises, healthy bathroom habits, I don't know, postpartum rehab. How did it sort of become the star of orgasm in this study?
How does this study challenge common misconceptions about orgasms?
I didn't realize that association was there.
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Chapters
7 chapters
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What does the research say about orgasms beyond physical touch?
0:04–0:50
2
How can orgasms occur without genital stimulation?
0:50–1:28
3
What are the objective markers of orgasm identified in the study?
1:28–2:06
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How does the brain play a role in the experience of orgasm?
2:06–3:26
5
What is the significance of pelvic floor movements in achieving orgasm?
3:26–4:09
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How does this study challenge common misconceptions about orgasms?
4:09–4:57
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What does it mean to own your orgasms according to the guest?
4:57–9:22
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