A woman made headlines this week after she let out a passionate wail during the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony.
It is speculated that she experienced a full body orgasm just as the music started to swell.
This is a particularly intense sensation that is felt in every part of the body rather than just the genital area. The abs tighten, the legs tingle, and the fingers can go numb all at once
“It’s a wave of pleasure,” Caitlin V, a sex coach and YouTuber, told DailyMail.com.
Mrs. V, for example, experienced one of others caressing her body with flowers. “I felt like a bombshell of joy was going off in all directions,” she said.
Caitlin V (left), a sexologist and YouTuber, has experienced full-body orgasms even without sexual stimulation. Dr. Laurie Watson (right) is a sex therapist who still has these sensations in her 60s despite being postmenopausal
Dr. Laurie Watson, a sexologist and co-host of the Foreplay Radio podcast, described her one of her own full-body orgasms as a sensation that “raced through my body like nearly a thousand convulsions, literally shaking the head and body.” It is a kind of earthquake of the body.
“Like a normal genital orgasm, it can be subtle or intense. But what really makes them different is that the full-body orgasm doesn’t require any genital stimulation.’
While it’s not confirmed that the unnamed woman at the symphony did indeed have a full-body orgasm, it wouldn’t be the first time music has brought someone to climax.
A study from McGill University revealed that listening to music can release endorphins and dopamine, which activate the brain’s pleasure center, all of which also happen during orgasm.
For the past few months, content creators on TikTok have been sharing their stories. Videos with hashtags like “full-body orgsms” and “full-body orgs,” which were used to circumvent TikTok’s algorithm, have been viewed more than half a billion times on the app.
Life Coach Lisa May Francisco went viral last month after describing the “whole-body cosmic orgasm” she experienced during a breathwork class.
“As soon as I started doing more active breathing, the magic started to happen,” Ms. Francisco said in the video.
Life coach and TikTok user Lisa May Francisco went viral last month after sharing her experience with a full body orgasm. She had not experienced any sexual stimulation at the time
TikTok user Leán Bakker called full-body orgasms “spiritual” and a “self-actualization”
“By the end I literally didn’t even feel like myself anymore. My ears were ringing. Every part of my body actually tingled,” she said.
Ms. Francisco was not experiencing sexual stimulation.
TikToker Lean Bakker said in February video that the thrill is “so much more than sex.” It is a self realization. It is a realization of the pleasure power within yourself and you are able to feel God in your body.’
Achieving any kind of climax is significantly more difficult for women than for men, let alone one that spreads all over the body. WHY?
Investigation of the Sex and Marriage Counseling Journalfound, for example, that only 18.4 percent of women reach orgasm from vaginal sex alone.
Experts estimate that between five and 15 percent of women have never had one.
Additionally, a 2017 study of the Archive of Sexual Behavior looked at more than 52,000 American adults and found that 95 percent of heterosexual men reported having an orgasm during sex. Only 65 percent of heterosexual women had the same result.
One factor that makes full-body orgasms particularly unique is that they take significantly longer to achieve than your regular O.
A Finnish study found that in 2015, only 38 percent of young women reported habitually having an orgasm during sex. In addition, 43 percent indicated that they rarely have them at most
“The better orgasm is when.” [you] get close to the edge and then get slowed down,” said Dr. Watson.
Also known as edging, this practice builds up vasocongestion, or the swelling of body tissues to increase vascular blood flow.
“The pelvic floor, her vulva, her labia, her clitoris fill with blood. Then you’re essentially ready to touch all the nerve endings and have a more powerful experience,” said Dr. Watson.
This also works for men. “It’s not genitally dependent,” Ms. V said. “It’s consistent from body to body, no matter what genitals those bodies have.”
In both sexual and non-sexual ways, opening the body to full feelings of pleasure is key to achieving this effect.
“You have to be open to fun,” said Mrs. V. “There fun is everywhere, anytime. It is completely accessible to you.’
Ms V indicated that this could be as simple as wearing a velvet bathrobe, enjoying a cup of coffee in bed or listening to the radio in the car at full blast.
Opening yourself up to pleasure can then carry over into the bedroom, whether through sex with a partner or through masturbation.
Achieving a full body orgasm has more benefits than just a few minutes of pleasure.
A 2016 study in the journal Socioaffective neuroscience and psychology found that women who reached orgasm had higher rates of sperm retention than those who didn’t, which could lead to infertility.
Another study from the same journal found a positive association between orgasms and the ability to better shape partnerships and social connections.
And research of the International Headache Association noted that 37 percent of women who had an orgasm during sex have improvements in their cluster headache attacks.
However, there are roadblocks that can get in the way.
‘Women need a lot of stimulation to come to an orgasm. They need about 20 minutes of general arousal,” Dr Watson said. “Women expect movies and porn to come in an instant and women don’t need much arousal.”
This is followed by more stimulation to other areas, such as the clitoris, which can continue for another 20 minutes.
Dr. Watson said women tend to be more distracted, they lack the testosterone levels that men have, which some studies say improves men’s ability to concentrate.
Age also plays a role. Once women reach menopause — on average at age 51 in the United States, according to the Mayo clinic– they experience a sharp decrease in estrogen, which can make sexual arousal more difficult.
However, it is not impossible.
“We can learn how to get enough stimulation to have great orgasms in menopause.” There are menopausal women who really struggle to have as good an orgasm as they used to, and they have to work harder,” said Dr. Watson.
“They often need multiple ways of stimulation to achieve the same level of orgasm.” But I’m postmenopausal and I would say my organs are significantly more powerful now than they were when I was young,” said Dr. Watson.