Posts Tagged ‘orgasm’
Monday, November 17th, 2008
New studies on the mysterious sex lives of 57-to-85-year-old Americans.
THE MATING GAME
By Regina Nuzzo
Special to The Times
Los Angeles Times – Health Section
November 17, 2008
Far be it from us to pick nits with billionaire Warren Buffett in these bleak economic times, but perhaps he knows more about finance than he does about sex. “It’s nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don’t want to keep it around forever,” Buffett, worth $62 billion at age 78, told Bloomberg News recently. “Otherwise it’s a little like saving sex for your old age.”
His compatriots might disagree.
Nearly 40% of Buffett’s peers — American men between 75 and 85 years old — are sexually active, new studies reveal. More than half of those have sex at least twice a month. A quarter do it every week. (Only 17% of women that age are sexually active, but they’re equally busy.) That might be more positive transactions than Wall Street is seeing these days.
Tags: age, Health, LA Times, men, orgasm, relationships, Science, sex, The Mating Game, women
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Yes, it’s true.
THE MATING GAME
By Regina Nuzzo
Special to The Times
Los Angeles Times – Health Section
August 18, 2008
Urology clinics have a saying: “Erections make erections.”
In other words, sex is not unlike sports. If you want to be a good tennis player, play lots of tennis; if you want to be a good lover, make lots of love.
This maxim springs more from anecdotal observations than from scientific studies: Men who have erection problems tend not to have much sex, urologists noticed. And those who don’t, have plenty. Then again, anyone with a passing knowledge of the birds and the bees might have guessed as much.
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
What happens after a few weeks of abstinence? Two studies shed light on how a body changes after a sexual dry spell.
THE MATING GAME
By Regina Nuzzo
Special to The Times
Los Angeles Times – Health Section
August 18, 2008
Before a big day: A study of 46 men and women in Scotland looked at whether sex affects the body’s blood-pressure response to a stressful event — in this case, a nerve-racking combo of public speaking and verbal arithmetic.
The results, published in 2006 in the journal Biological Psychology, showed that people who’d had no sexual activity (no intercourse of any kind, no masturbation) in the two weeks before the stressful day had the worst blood-pressure responses.
Those with the best reactions? Folks who’d had penile-vaginal intercourse only. (Those who’d had other types of sexual activity with another person still fared worse than those who’d had vaginal intercourse; masturbation was barely an improvement over no sexual activity.)
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Eager to connect with that elusive (some say mythical) ‘erotogenic zone’? Years after the hype began, finding it remains easier said than done. But that’s not stopping researchers from looking.
THE MATING GAME
By Regina Nuzzo
Special to The Times
July 21, 2008
Los Angeles Times – Health Section
When in 1950 Dr. Ernst Gräfenberg described finding a surprisingly sensitive spot inside the vagina near the urethra, he made the process seem so foolproof. A medical article detailed his effortless demonstrations of the existence of this “distinct erotogenic zone” — and the not-unexpected consequences of stimulating such a zone — in his own patients. Anyone with a vagina could surely do the same for herself.
Well, perhaps it was that easy for him. But outside his examining room, nothing about Gräfenberg’s spot has proven so simple.
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
To unlock the secrets of the climax researchers are looking behind the scenes and into the nervous system, where the true magic happens.
By Regina Nuzzo
Special to The Times
Los Angeles Times — Health Section
February 11, 2008
AS they seek to document and demystify one of life's great thrills, scientists have run across some real head-scratchers.
How, for example, can they explain the fact that some men and women who are paralyzed and numb below the waist are able to have orgasms?
How to explain the "orgasmic auras" that can descend at the onset of epileptic seizures — sensations so pleasurable they prompt some patients to refuse antiseizure medication?
And how on Earth to explain the case of the amputee who felt his orgasms centered in that missing foot?
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Dr. Stuart Meloy stumbled upon an alternative — and pleasurable — use for an electrode stimulation device that treats pain.
By Regina Nuzzo
Special to The Times
Los Angeles Times — Health Section
February 11, 2008
Dr. Stuart Meloy never set out to study orgasms. It was an accident.
He was in the operating room one day in 1998, implanting electrodes into a patient’s spine to treat her chronic leg pain. (The electrodes are connected to a device that fires impulses to the brain to block pain signals.) But when he turned on the power, “the patient suddenly let out something between a shriek and moan,” says Meloy, an anesthesiologist and pain specialist in North Carolina.
Asked what was wrong, she replied, “You’ll have to teach my husband how to do that.”
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
‘C-V distance’ may be a factor in how easily a woman has an orgasm.
By Regina Nuzzo
Special to The Times
Los Angeles Times — Health Section
February 11, 2008
During intercourse, the female orgasm can be elusive. What frustrated woman hasn’t wondered: Am I simply, um, put together differently than other women?
Kim Wallen, professor of psychology and behavioral neuroendocrinology at Emory University, is busy doing the math to find out. And, yes, he says, simple physiology may have a lot to do with orgasm ease — specifically, how far a woman’s clitoris lies from her vagina.
That number might predict how easily a woman can experience orgasms from penile stimulation alone — without help from fingers, toys or tongue — during sexual intercourse.
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
By Regina Nuzzo
Special to The Times
Los Angeles Times — Health Section
February 11, 2008
Sure, orgasms can put a bounce in one’s step, but some studies hint they might also be good for one’s health.
* Heart: Lots of studies have looked at whether DHEA, a hormone released into the bloodstream during arousal and orgasm, helps keeps arteries clear and hearts strong. A 2001 study of 1,700 middle-age Massachusetts men found that those with the lowest levels of DHEA were about 60% more likely to develop heart disease than those with the highest. Orgasms aren’t the only way to get this hormone, though; your body produces some even without sexual stimulation.
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