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Exercise-Induced Orgasm

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Researchers confirm anecdotal evidence that exercise — absent sex or fantasies — can lead to female orgasm. While the findings are new, reports of this phenomenon, sometimes called “coregasm” because of its association with exercises for core abdominal muscles, have circulated in the media for years, said researcher Debby Herbenick. “The most common exercises associated with exercise-induced orgasm were abdominal exercises, climbing poles or ropes, biking/spinning and weight lifting,” Herbenick said. “These data are interesting because they suggest that orgasm is not necessarily a sexual event, and they may also teach us more about the bodily processes underlying women’s experiences of orgasm.” The results are based on surveys administered online to 124 women who reported experiencing …show more content…

She also said that study findings may help women who experience exercise-induced orgasm/exercise-induced sexual pleasure feel more normal about their experiences or put them into context. Herbenick cautioned that it is not yet known whether such exercises can improve women’s sexual experiences. “It may be that exercise — which is already known to have significant benefits to health and well-being — has the potential to enhance women’s sexual lives as well.” The study did not determine how common it is for women to experience exercise-induced orgasm or exercise-induced sexual pleasure. But the authors note that it took only five weeks to recruit the 370 women who experienced the phenomenon, suggesting it is not rare. “Magazines and blogs have long highlighted cases of what they sometimes call ‘coregasm,’” Herbenick said. “But aside from early reports by Kinsey and colleagues, this is an area of women’s sexual health research that has been largely ignored over the past six

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