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Monday, March 19, 2012

Sex An Incentive to Join a Gym, Ladies

Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:21 AM

You may be one of those women who can have coregasms."

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Jesus ladies, get a room!

Posted by ryanayr on March 19, 2012 at 10:35 AM

Female sexuality is one of the last frontiers.

Posted by seandr on March 19, 2012 at 10:44 AM

I recall reading that paraplegic women can sometimes orgasm via the vegus nerve, which runs down the front / over the core.

Posted by helmingstay on March 19, 2012 at 10:55 AM

zOMG! You mean moving the muscles touching and or adjacent to the female sex organs will sometimes produce pleasure or orgasm? (or that some women's 'sub'conscious are associating the exertion of exercise with that of teh sex?)

Well color me shocked this is totally unexpected and very seriously scientific information!! Truly a groundbreaking discovery.

Posted by moonmonster on March 19, 2012 at 11:08 AM

Ha! And my boyfriend thought I was crazy when I told him I come from yoga.

Glad to know I'm not a complete mutant.

Posted by Zuulabelle

on March 19, 2012 at 11:30 AM

"It took only five weeks to recruit the 370 women who experienced the phenomenon."

Must have been some weird-ass locker room talk.

Posted by Steeeeverino on March 19, 2012 at 11:51 AM

This is news? It has to do with a woman's ability to have vaginal orgasms. And her omega-3 fatty acid levels.

No one listens to me. Call teh whaaambulance.

What would be interesting is to see how the frequency varies between all-women and coed gyms, in other words, if male pheromones wafting around have an effect.

Posted by Marrena on March 19, 2012 at 11:56 AM

Good thing Men don't get them - that would be embarrassing

Posted by jasha1 on March 19, 2012 at 11:58 AM

Of those who experience coregasms:

"69 percent identified themselves as heterosexual"

I thought that was an unusual statistic.

Posted by Sandiai on March 19, 2012 at 12:03 PM

If only some of the women in the Phyllis Schlafly brigades were aware of what powers were theirs to wield, they might not be salivating for Santorum.

Posted by rob!

on March 19, 2012 at 12:25 PM

@8: Exactly what I thought. I'd hate to have to change clothes every time I wanted to do some crunches.

@9: What, because the number 69 came up, or because the prevalence of heterosexuality in the overall female population is closer to 90%?
Could be that lesbian women are more likely to lift, or there could be some actual correlation between sexual orientation and tendency to orgasm from abdominal workouts. Or maybe lesbian women are just more likely to recognize or report such tendencies.

Posted by venomlash on March 19, 2012 at 12:32 PM

Damn. All I've ever gotten from abdominal exercises are exhausted and sore.

(And coregasms aside, anyone who says exercise produces endorphins that make you feel fantastic is a big fucking liar.)

Posted by Chelydra_serpentina on March 19, 2012 at 12:47 PM

Yeah, nothing says incentive like "masturbating in public".
Pass.

Posted by mydriasis on March 19, 2012 at 1:27 PM

@12

"anyone who says exercise produces endorphins that make you feel fantastic is a big fucking liar"

we're kindred spirits!!

Posted by mydriasis on March 19, 2012 at 1:28 PM

If I could have coregasms, I'd never leave the gym.

Posted by Reverse Polarity on March 19, 2012 at 4:30 PM

Orgasms while lifting weights or climbing poles? Sounds a bit... hazardous.

Posted by Megaera on March 19, 2012 at 4:40 PM

@12: Eh, there's a certain pleasure in being sore, fatigued, and generally worn-out. But hey, maybe that's just my slight masochistic tendencies talking.

Posted by venomlash on March 19, 2012 at 5:26 PM

I find that yoga and pilates both will achive the desired effect. I think that controlled breathing plays a part in this as well. Just a theory.

Posted by catballou on March 19, 2012 at 5:44 PM

There are 2 weight machines that can give you an 0 as well...and no one will know...that's just your "working hard" face.

Posted by julie russell

on March 19, 2012 at 7:09 PM

Not only that, but as far as I'm concerned, the only orgasms I have are coregasms. If I don't flex my abs during masturbation or sex, I don't come at all.
As a kid, before I realised I could touch myself, I achieved orgasms by climbing rope. At the time I didn't connect the pleasure with my genitals at all, I thought it was ab related.

Posted by Avistew on March 19, 2012 at 8:26 PM

Gosh, it's a pity that PsychologyToday is generally full of complete and utter horseshit ...

Posted by happyhedonist on March 19, 2012 at 9:46 PM

Dunno about exercise, but I believe it. Meditation (believe it or not -- try sitting rohatsu sometime) can do it. Er, and so can motorcycles, but anyone surprised at *that* needs to have their head examined.

Posted by BEG

on March 19, 2012 at 10:11 PM

I have definitely found myself getting a bit, umm, stimulated when doing certain weight-lifting exercises. But I always find it kinda uncomfortable, so I stop before I reach an actual "coregasm."

Posted by ridia on March 20, 2012 at 8:02 AM

I've been having orgasms without touching myself since I was a teenager, and exercise wasn't even involved. Now I know what they're called. All I have to do is clench certain muscles a certain way, concentrate and shift around a little, and boom. I first discovered this trick on long family road trips, and they're still a routine way for me to pass the time on a boring road.

Posted by Doin' it for myself on March 20, 2012 at 10:15 AM