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ohiosmith

(24,262 posts)
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 07:54 PM Mar 2012

No sex necessary: Women have orgasms in gym.

Women may not need a guy, a vibrator, or any other direct sexual stimulation to have an orgasm, finds a new study on exercise-induced orgasms and sexual pleasure.

The findings add qualitative and quantitative data to a field that has been largely unstudied, according to researcher Debby Herbenick, co-director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University.

For instance, Alfred Kinsey and his colleagues first reported the phenomenon in 1953, saying that about 5 percent of women they had interviewed mentioned orgasm linked to physical exercise. However, they couldn't know the actual prevalence because most of these women volunteered the information without being directly asked.


Since then, reports of so-called "coregasms," named because of their seeming link to exercises for core abdominal muscles, have circulated in the media for years, according to the researchers.
"Despite attention in the popular media, little is known scientifically about exercise-induced orgasms," the researchers write in a special issue of the journal Sexual and Relationship Therapy released in print this month.

Link: http://bodyodd.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/19/10759818-no-sex-necessary-women-have-orgasms-at-the-gym-study-shows

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No sex necessary: Women have orgasms in gym. (Original Post) ohiosmith Mar 2012 OP
ahh warrior1 Mar 2012 #1
I work out 5 times a week... pink-o Mar 2012 #2
Nearer my God To Thee.. HappyMe Mar 2012 #3
Don't let Santorum know. He'll ban PE for girls. JBoy Mar 2012 #4
So, now I know what that song NewJeffCT Mar 2012 #5
crap Broderick Mar 2012 #6
Ewww. deucemagnet Mar 2012 #7
No wonder she has a pet name for the Stairmaster. I never got why she calls it "Lars". bluesbassman Mar 2012 #8
!!! MiddleFingerMom Mar 2012 #9

bluesbassman

(19,379 posts)
8. No wonder she has a pet name for the Stairmaster. I never got why she calls it "Lars".
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 09:17 PM
Mar 2012

It's all so clear now.

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