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kalikshama -> Working the coregasm - another reason to exercise (3/27/2012 9:44:50 AM)
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EISP is certainly true for me after a particularly vigorous yoga practice.
http://www.salon.com/2012/03/27/working_the_coregasm/
New science sheds light on the unexpected pleasure that some women feel during exercise
...Exercise-induced female sexual pleasure has been the subject of casual discussion and un-researched speculation for years. Even sexologist Alfred Kinsey mentions the phenomenon in his “Sexual Behaviors in the Human Female” (1953). But until now, the experience was mostly anecdotal. Now, a study by Indiana University researchers offers scientific evidence that confirms confessions once incredulously traded in gym class locker rooms.
According to Dr. Debby Herbenick, co-director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at IU and sexual health educator at the Kinsey Institute, the oft-deemed “coregasm” (because of its association with crunches) can actually be linked to various exercises, including abdominal workouts, biking, weight-lifting and climbing.
With co-author J. Dennis Fortenberry, M.D. and professor at the IU School of Medicine, Herbenick surveyed 370 women, ages 18 to 63, all of whom had experienced some sort of exercise-induced sexual experience prior to the study. Most of the women were in a relationship or married, and about 69 percent identified themselves as heterosexual. One hundred twenty-four of them had experienced exercise-induced orgasms (EIO) and 246 had experienced exercise-induced sexual pleasure (EISP). Forty percent of the women reported that they experienced sexual pleasure from exercise 10 times or more.
Published in a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Sexual and Relationship Therapy, the findings may also be included in Herbenick’s new book, “Sex Made Easy,” out in April. “It may be that exercise — which is already known to have significant benefits to health and well-being — has the potential to enhance women’s sexual lives as well,” Herbenick posited.
And while it might be tempting to conclude that ditching your vibrator for more reps at the gym will enhance your sex life, the findings of the recent study actually present a much more complex way of thinking about sexual pleasure. “These data are interesting because they suggest that orgasm is not necessarily a sexual event,” said Herbenick. When orgasms are being had at the gym and on the track, our notion of female pleasure expands beyond the bedroom. When they occur independent of conventionally defined arousal, sensations characterized as “sexual” work to complicate our understanding of women’s bodies and experiences.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2012/03/27/working_the_coregasm/
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