Walking And Orgasmic History Linked
Posted on: Friday, 5 September 2008, 11:15 CDT
A new study found that trained sexologists could infer a woman's history of vaginal orgasm by observing the way she walks. The study is published in the September 2008 issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, the official journal of the International Society for Sexual Medicine and the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health.
Led by Stuart Brody of the University of the West of Scotland in collaboration with colleagues in Belgium, the study involved 16 female Belgian university students. Subjects completed a questionnaire on their sexual behavior and were then videotaped from a distance while walking in a public place. The videotapes were rated by two professors of sexology and two research assistants trained in the functional-sexological approach to sexology, who were not aware of the women's orgasmic history.
The results showed that the appropriately trained sexologists were able to correctly infer vaginal orgasm through watching the way the women walked over 80 percent of the time. Further analysis revealed that the sum of stride length and vertebral rotation was greater for the vaginally orgasmic women. "This could reflect the free, unblocked energetic flow from the legs through the pelvis to the spine," the authors note.
There are several plausible explanations for the results shown by this study. One possibility is that a woman's anatomical features may predispose her to greater or lesser tendency to experience vaginal orgasm. According to Brody, "Blocked pelvic muscles, which might be associated with psychosexual impairments, could both impair vaginal orgasmic response and gait." In addition, vaginally orgasmic women may feel more confident about their sexuality, which might be reflected in their gait. "Such confidence might also be related to the relationship(s) that a woman has had, given the finding that specifically penile-vaginal orgasm is associated with indices of better relationship quality," the authors state. Research has linked vaginal orgasm to better mental health.
The study provides some support for assumptions of a link between muscle blocks and sexual function, according to the authors. They conclude that it may lend credibility to the idea of incorporating training in movement, breathing and muscle patterns into the treatment of sexual dysfunction.
"Women with orgasmic dysfunction should be treated in a multi-disciplinary manner" says Irwin Goldstein, Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Sexual Medicine."Although small, this study highlights the potential for multiple therapies such as expressive arts therapy incorporating movement and physical therapy focusing on the pelvic floor."
This study is published in the September 2008 issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine.
* Article: "A Woman's History of Vaginal Orgasm is Discernible from Her Walk," Aurelie Nicholas, Stuart Brody, Pascal De Sutter, François de Carufel, Journal of Sexual Medicine, September 2008.
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Posted by Vincenzo Puppo on 10/05/2008, 05:36 This is not a scientific article (of opportunist sexologists…)! Orgasm is a normal function of all women: it is possible in every woman because it’s caused by the female erectile organs. Vaginal orgasm is a term invented by Freud in 1905, it is only a theory: vagina is a reproductive organ with little sensitivity. Sexologists don’t study on specialist textbooks: Female sexual physiology was described in ****inson’s textbooks in 1949 and by Masters and Johnson in 1966… sexologists should define as “complete sexual intercourse” (in other words “making love”) the case in which the orgasm happens in both partners with or without a vaginal intercourse, and it is possible stimulate the clitoris during the vaginal/anal intercourse with fingers, and during “first time” it is not obligatory to have a vaginal intercourse… Sexologists should spread certainties for all women not hypotheses without scientific bases (Vaginal orgasm and G-spot don’t exist: Every sexologist should read Grafenberg’s original article... Mass media and people who believe in a "vaginal spot" should not use Grafenberg's name yet)... See video in it.youtube.com/ newsexology |
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