Once again the topic of the female orgasm has come up in the news and it confirms that there is still a lot we don’t know about the female body and how the orgasm occurs. There is some empirical evidence linking the orgasm to exercise. 40% of the women participating in a survey reported such an experience in places such as their gym, embarrassingly, or even their sitting room carpet where the orgasm was brought on by repetitions of tummy crunches and other such abdominal exercises. The correlation between orgasm and these exercises was particularly strong among the women who participated but others experienced orgasm while climbing rope, lifting weights or running even.
Interestingly, these events were not associated with sexual fantasy or sexual thoughts of any kind, allowing us now to look at exercise as a form of treatment for this branch of female sexual dysfunction. If nothing else, this discovery might give some of us the impetus to go to the gym more often!