The female orgasm is a series of pleasurable physical sensations and feelings which occurs following, and represents the peak in, sexual stimulation. Orgasm in females is a complex multidimensional phenomenon involving both physical and emotional components. However, not a lot of research has been conducted about the female orgasm and the physical and emotional changes which accompany it are not properly understood. Many authors have attempted to define the female orgasm but as yet there is no universally accepted definition, and those which do exist tend to disagree on the about the relative importance of physical and emotional components of the female orgasm. For the most part, existing definitions fail to integrate the physical and emotional dimensions of orgasm into a single definition. Some defintions e.
I had an orgasm during a pelvic exam at the gynecologist
When my therapist emphasized the fact that I had my first successful pelvic exam, I found myself suddenly crying tears of happiness. Health and wellness touch each of us differently. After getting my period at 13, I tried inserting one and it resulted in a sharp shooting, tear-inducing pain. My mom told me not to worry and to just try again later.
Why Going to Pelvic Floor Therapy Transformed My Life
Throughout the s and s, physicians writing for American medical journals created a vision of female heterosexual health that linked vaginal orgasm with marital stability and community security. This article focuses on how physicians sought to ensure healthy female heterosexuality through the use of state-mandated premarital consultations. Physicians repeatedly asserted that by monitoring a woman's response to penetration during a premarital pelvic exam, they could anticipate her ability to experience vaginal orgasm during intercourse. A sexually fulfilling relationship, physicians explained, was the foundation of marital stability.
I am a doctor myself, in a smallish town in the midwest. I always got a small, secret thrill out of doing a pelvic exam or a breast exam, for that matter on an attractive woman. I was horrified!