It's important to learn as much as you can about orgasms. Because the more you know about orgasms, the better you'll be at having them and helping other people have them.
1
The world record for the longest time spent masturbating to orgasm is 6 hours 30 minutes for a woman, and 8 hours 30 minutes for a man. Time well wasted.
2
About 0.06% of men can orgasm through fantasizing alone, without touching their penis or any other part of their body.
3
A recent study found that 48% of regular headache sufferers had their pain cured by orgasm. Not only that, but it actually worked much faster than painkillers.
4
Some women faint when they orgasm and, in very rare cases, have had heart failure and died – which might explain why the French refer to orgasm as ‘/le petit mort/’ (the little death).
5
At the start of the 20th Century, the first electric home vibrators hit the market before many other household ‘essentials’ – people had to wait nine more years for the vacuum cleaner and 10 years for the electric iron.
6
When men orgasm, their brains release chemicals (including prolactin) that can bring on tiredness. That’s our excuse and we’re sticking to it.
7
The average female orgasm lasts between six and 10 seconds – although for some lucky girls it can last up to 20 seconds.
8
Sex educators’ Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller, who run the ‘I ♥ Female Orgasm’ sex education programme on US college campuses, say that around 1% of women can orgasm from breast stimulation alone.
9
The most female orgasms achieved in a single masturbation session was allegedly 49, from a London woman in 2006.
10
Men’s orgasms have the same impact on them as heroin on an addict’s brain.
11
Less than a third of all women regularly orgasm during sex, while three-quarters of men always do. But if their partners spend more than 21 minutes on foreplay, the stats zoom up to produce nine out of 10 fully satisfied women.
12
A recent study found that men who have two or more orgasms a week are likely to live longer.
13
Stimulation of the G-spot can raise your pain threshold by 107% at orgasm.
14
If you’ve just reached orgasm through clitoral stimulation, try penetration to continue the sensations. Often, the first orgasm is sharper and quicker, but the second could be longer.