While we can all agree that orgasms are
pretty damn great, there are
plenty out there who don't experience them in the way you would expect. Once you start looking into the medical discoveries that have been made during various scientific studies, the topic becomes even weirder, as you can see in the following list.
1. Exercising
While most people feel the complete opposite of a good feeling when they're working out, some people have an entirely different reaction. A recent survey of 370 women found that some women would get turned on by abdominal exercises like sit-ups and crunches. Of all the people who admitted to having climaxed during a workout, 45 percent said that core exercises were behind it, while some said it happened as a result of weight-lifting.
2. Fungus
The strangest find is a bad-smelling fungus called netted stinkhorn, which grows on the lava fields in Hawaii. A study found that around half of the women who smelled the plant experienced a sudden rush of pleasure, while men are completely immune to its charms.
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3. Medication
While anti-depressants are made to change your mood, some can have an extreme effect. A side effect of a drug called clomipramine caused some patients to orgasm every time they yawned. It is unknown how it caused this effect, but some have theorised it has something to do with the adrenocorticotropic hormone, which helps to induce yawning and is also involved in male ejaculation. Another anti-depressant called venlafaxine can produce persistent genital arousal disorder (PGAD) in women when they stop using it.
4. Transfer orgasms
One Dutch woman was once documented as, shortly after coming out of a coma, she began experiencing spontaneous orgasms from her left foot. Somehow her brain had lost its ability to differentiate between her foot and her genitals, as the nerves from both parts of the body enter the spinal cord at similar points.
5. Brain malfunctions
When certain parts of the brain associated with orgasms are activated by other events, this can cause some problems. One epileptic woman found that she would have orgasms during seizures induced only by the act of brushing her teeth, due to a damaged hippocampus.
6. Soy
One woman found that they experienced PGAD after increasing the amount of soy in her diet to 1.8 kg a day, experiencing up to 15 orgasms a day.
While many of these are easily avoided, those who have PGAD likely live pretty difficult lives. It's not the sort of thing you want to be going through in public and it's not exactly something that's easy to talk about with people given how private these things usually are.
