Women fall into ‘trance’ during orgasm
“The scans show that during sexual activity, the parts of the female brain responsible for processing fear, anxiety and emotion start to relax and reduce in activity. This reaches a peak at orgasm, when the female brain’s emotion centres are effectively closed down to produce an almost trance-like state.”
Related:
Scan spots women faking orgasms
“In women, turning off fear and anxiety is key, while men need to know they will be physically stimulated.”
Professor Holstege said: “Women can imitate orgasm quite well.” But with genuine orgasm, he said: “What we see is an extreme deactivation of large portions of the brain and especially the emotional parts involved with fear. “If you look at the women who faked orgasm intentionally you see the motor cortex – the conscious part of the brain – is activated. “This means the movements that we make in [real] orgasm are not conscious. “And if you are fearful, it is very hard to have sex. It’s very hard to let go.”
He said this was useful for men to know. “When you want to make love to a woman, you must give her the feeling of being protected.”
Bsti found this gem.
olivia
I dont know. All I can see right now are stripey patterns……… and a roughty tufty cowboy tipping his hat at me.
fly*
@ Nathan…
Funny I’ve noticed the same thing ;o)
Do we see a pattern forming O’sock Mistress of the world…. ???
olivia
HAHAHAHAHA! Too much!!! I can’t bear it!
nathan
This is a really long comment string. Why is it that the comments are exponentially more quantified when the discussion is sex, particularly socks?
Oh, and cowboys don’t need socks, he just needs to know what he’s doing with his toes.
Hans
Hmm…I wonder what passions a cowboy wearing striped socks will stir in you, Olivia. Ha,ha.
olivia
Men look HOT in wide stripey socks.
Hans
Olivia, when I wrote my comment I was thinking of the iddy biddy white things… What a filure of the imagination on my part. The ones in the pixs are hot! Will have to try now!
olivia
So Hans, the sweet guy you are… I take it you wouldn’t complain then if your girlfriend wore nothing in bed but these?
Or these?
Or on those really hot sweaty nights she could be quite partial to these…
Hmmmmmm?
Hans
Socks: well, I must admit that no one looks very appetizing in the nude wearing socks, silly-looking indeed is not out of the question. That’s why people are recommended, to conquer stage fright, to envision the audience naked, except for wearing socks (still, I would not take it gainst my lover if she insists on wearing socks while in the amorous mood).
Ejaculation: It’s sweet, but short. So, the best thing while making love is to focus on the journey, not the destination.
olivia
Would you really want to sleep with a woman who thinks you look silly in socks?! Talk about repressed. No sense of fun. Run fly RUN AWAY!
fly*
hmmmmm…socks…
Ive always been told men look silly in just socks… :-
Reading this makes me very envious of women but then in the long run I guess women deserve it when you consider what they go thru monthly….still I would just like to have a shimmer of a feeling of what they feel….personally I feel ejaculation is seriously overated….
Maybe socks wil make a difference… :o)
Hans
Aha! Now I understand those silly porn clips with everyone doing it in their socks!
Chad A. S.
i can understand the socks thing. maybe makes you more aware of your feet, stretches your body. whatever that means. i bet wearing those form-fitting fuzzy winter gloves would be fun too, so you could rip them off half-way. whatever half-way means. but delaying full feeling in a sensitive place like your hands i imagine would be sexaul.
i think men would enter that trance-like state too if there were certain conditions. maybe men are even less comfortable than women with sex and to compensate they turn it into a completely physical thing which has nothing to do with internal emotions.
i think men and women grow up in such different environments and young boys would relate more to girls, in the beginning, if they didn’t think they were supposed to be better than them. they might get this idea from all of the competition that they enter in that they think important rarely have girls in them, such as sports.
when a perfect ‘jock’ realizes in high school that the new competition is won by having an attractive lady on your elbow it might be hard for him to play by the girls’ rules. he might shy away from exploring his emotions, things that might make him feel foolish for the first time in his life. he might settle for appearances and surface stimulation. and etc. perhapses
Fuschia Faery
I can’t believe the fact about the socks! New thing for today!
nathan
No, usually when I have sex it’s in a very controlled, laboratory environment. Usually the scientists have snacks and fruit punch and will clean up afterwards.
Plus, I like the way the cold stethoscope feels on my bottom.
Lola
Wow!
olivia
“delightful” hahahahahah!
I’m not sure about this study though. Sometimes fear can work like a charm. Like the fear of getting caught in the act.
And I’m not sure what it’s like for men, but women can experience at least two completely different types of orgasm – one is highly emotional and etherial (like what they were referring to in the article), the other is very raw and physical (similar to how I would imagine men experience it). They feel completely different. Also some women can orgasm from internal, not just external stimulation – both again are completely different.
Maybe that’s what they picked up in the tests, maybe some of them weren’t faking, they were just experiencing different types of orgasms.
Anyway, you have to wonder where one signs up for these sort of “scientific studies”. And surely just being in an environment like that, with a whole bunch of strangers watching you closely for details, well that would certainly affect the accuracy of the tests since its not a normal environment.
Cait
That’s one of those wonderful bits of trivia that will be delightful to toss forth at a group gathering! Love it.
olivia
I know! how cute is that!
nathan
The study also reports: “The experiments also revealed a rather surprising effect: both men and women found it easier to have an orgasm when they kept their socks on.”
In other news, Sock Dreams stock soars…