female orgasm

Scientists (especially in our Enlightened Age...) can usually be trusted to control for relevant variables in correlation-based studies. That is, at least for variables that are obvious and/or acknowledged. So in studies about the effect of sex on physiology and psychology, you might expect that the basic factorial design would include, even in the current society where sex is conflated with orgasm: . In studies for which the purported independent variable is orgasm (e.g.

A few forum entries (and many entire websites) discuss the importance of avoiding orgasm, either for taoist practice, for vaguely new-age-tantric reasons, or for promoting the pair bond. Most of these discussions or sites seem to be concerned primarily with retaining semen, apparently based on the perception that semen release and orgasm are simultaneous and perhaps even indistinguishable. However, for several reasons I believe that this definition of orgasm is incomplete, and that the muscular-mechanical methods for semen retention are misleading.

I often find myself silently debating the finer points of sex while doing the sorts of task that require minimal attention. The pros and cons of orgasm is a perennial favourite. I occasionally dwell on my continued inability to recognise any difference in behaviour or attitude in either myself or my wife following periods of no orgasms or many orgasms, which I suppose helps justify our continued enjoyment of them. The other day, though, I found myself wondering what, precisely, the point of orgasm was, its purpose, its reason for existing.