Female sexuality
Female sexuality was, depending on the historical eras, characterized by various and often extravagant interpretations. Definite complicated, threatening, shameful, irrepressible, demonic. Mature if lived with certain modalities or on the contrary, infantile, repressed, hierarchically lower than the male one. To be free, to be claimed or to be respected.
From the 1960s onwards, especially thanks to the work of the couple of researchers Masters and Johnson, scientific information about sexuality began. Especially on female sexuality and on thefemale orgasmup to that moment almost totally ignored to the medical level.
The phases of female sexual response
The two researchers identified the fundamental phases of sexual response, identical in the male and female, and meticulously studied their medical and physiological details. The pleasure, which winds through the four phases of desire/excitement, plateau, orgasm and resolution, accompanies, supports and colors the sexual response cycle in an erotic sense. Just the female orgasm phase In the imagination it represents the culminating point of pleasure and thanks to the observations of Masters and Johnson we can know its exact physiology.
The preliminary phases to women’s orgasm
During the excitement and plateau phases, the sexual response begins and feeds. The anatomical structures that surround the vagina and clitoris are more sprayed with blood. The lubrication of the vaginal walls increases. Small lips are exposed, the vagina stretches inwards and the whole body responds to stimulation. You get to the real female orgasm phase.
The orgasm of the woman
This subjective experience of great pleasure, which can come after an extremely variable time of the previous phases, can last around 20 seconds. An initial spasm of the muscles surrounding the third exterior of the vagina (the “orgasmic platform”) follows the moment of orgasm by a few seconds.
After this, a series of contractions begin, usually between 5 and 8, at the rhythm of one for every 0.8 seconds, which represent the quintessence of theOrgasm experience. These are accompanied in some women by contractions of the perianal muscles and the uterus. They increase the heartbeat and blood pressure, a neuromuscular hypertec realization is manifested. There is a hyperventilation just before orgasm and a redness of the trunk skin can occur.
The intensity of the sensations due to these changes may vary a lot from case to case, even in the same subject. In the quieter forms, the person can maintain total self -control, in the most intense ones a virtual loss of consciousness can be verified, with an dullness of the senses that lasts a few seconds.
The post-orgasmic phase
After orgasm, all the physiological components return quickly to the pre-exciting levels, reaching what Masters and Johnson have called resolution phase. It is characterized by a feeling of relaxation and progressive tension release. If the orgasm is not reached, however, the state of neurophysiological excitement decreases much more slowly and the congestion of the sexual organs can be annoying even for hours.
Female multiple orgasms
Masters and Johnson also took over an extraordinary (until then unknown) characteristic of female sexual response. In fact, some subjects were able to try consecutive multiple orgasms. Among the Various orgasms of the woman There is no resolution phase (in which stimulation does not produce any reaction or even discomfort), unlike what happens on average in the male. It is possible that this condition is connected to the degree of excitement of the person, rather than a personal preparation, and the ability to let go, following emotions and desires.
In fact, human sexuality is inextricably linked to cognitions and emotions. All four sexual response phases correspond to physical stimulation as well as to an emotional and thought component. Beyond physiology, therefore, there is a world and a completely personal way to experience sexuality and its expression in Culminating point of female orgasm.
What prevents orgasm in women
Erroneous beliefs, poor confidence with one’s body, relational problems, prejudices or insufficient sexual education, as much as exclusively physiological problems, to affect the quality of pleasure.
All the more reason female sexuality, where the orgasmic pleasure experience does not have an immediately obvious function as in the male, has often been the subject of discrimination of information and neglected education. Satisfactory sexuality and the ability to reach orgasms in fact derive from the awareness of the functioning of our body. It is necessary to know how physical reactions are inextricably linked to emotional and cognitive experiences, to have confidence with one’s personal dimension of erotic pleasure.
Female orgasm disorders
According to recent data in the Italian population, about 9% of women rarely or never reaches orgasm. In the United States, the percentage in the general population reaches 11%.
Some women also report they have no problems reach orgasm during masturbation But not to be able to reach it with your partner.
It is also interesting to note that about 22.7% of Italian women Sometimes it does to reach orgasmtriggering a vicious circle of unsolicited that tends to chronicize the disorders related to sexuality and orgasm. When this happens, attention is paid to the question of achieving orgasm persistently. This generates unpleasant experiences and prevents it from focusing simply on the pleasure, inevitable and natural, which spontaneously brings to the height of the same.
How to encourage women’s orgasm
In order to fully understand their problems related to achievement of orgasmwe can ask ourselves first of all if in the previous phases (desire/excitement and plateau) everything works well for us. If the desire is present, the excitement arrives and remains and if the pleasure increases gradually it is useful to ask us what it prevents the achievement of orgasm.
There may be difficulties regarding emotions or thoughts on one’s body, that of man or certain situations of intimacy. In this case it is useful to gradually take confidence with your body and nudity. We need to expose yourself initially even alone to your naked body, perhaps observing your genitals. Thus, more and more confidence is conquered with that body that, in fact, we carry on us daily.
The same exhibition principle applies to the partner bodyif the problem turns out to be that. In fact, we progressively acquire familiarity with the part or parts that can be unpleasant in some way. In addition, it may be useful to exercise your ability to reach orgasm with autoeroticism, accompanied by sexual fantasies. This is in order to be able to communicate to the partner what their preferences are and how it can help us reach orgasm.
When you need professional help
Cognitive-behavioral therapy, both individual and couple, can help to face the problems that undergo sexual dysfunctions, including problems related to orgasm (aorgasmia). In therapy, the aforementioned dysfunctional beliefs are addressed, as well as relational or personal problems. Behavioral techniques are used or psychoeducational information on female sexuality are simply provided. This can improve, even much, the fundamental human experience of erotic pleasure e facilitate the achievement of women’s orgasm.
