Core Science Related Arguments

An ever-growing list of posts with arguments, musings, or ideas focused around the scientific elements of the female orgasm. Specifically, you’ll find further reading below about statements such as the following:

• There is a physiological event pretty much universally understood to be an orgasm in both males and females. It's the rhythmic pelvic muscle contractions that release the muscular tension and blood congestion built up by sexual arousal. For clarity sake, we’ll refer to that as a physical orgasm (but, I mean, it’s just an orgasm, really).

• The word ‘orgasm’– when speaking about females, but not males – is used to mean everything from a physical orgasm to intense pleasure to ejaculation to a spiritual or emotional climax. This willy-nilly use of this word is confusing, misdirecting, and overall harmful to scientific understanding, lady-gasm advice and information, and to our sexual culture in general and women in particular.

• In all of peer reviewed science there is no physically observed evidence of stimulation inside the vagina causing a physical orgasm. *This includes stimulation of the vaginal walls, cervix, and of stimulation to the inner clitoral structures or g-spot through the vaginal canal. That's true even though researchers have been chasing evidence of an orgasm like this for a good century.

• There is tons of physically observed evidence in lab situations of female orgasms stimulated through external stimulation of the clitoral glans area.