..and in the MRI-pain-orgasm file, we have this new article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/female.html?pg=1.
"One of the things Dr. Komisaruk discovered is that women who are stimulating the anterior vaginal wall can take 50 percent more pain than they can when they're not," she tells me excitedly. "If they have an orgasm, their pain threshold rises 100 percent."
Gee, makes me wish I had an anterior vaginal wall.
I seem to recall an old saying that a "heightened woman can't be marked" (meaning that a woman who is sexually aroused won't show bruising or welts from painful things that would otherwise really bother her). Obviously there are limits, but it's interesting that such a thing has been in folk wisdom for a while.
Since men's and women's brains during orgasm are so remarkably similar, perhaps men's analogous pathway for the increased pain threshold will be found soon.
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Gee, makes me wish I had an anterior vaginal wall.
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Since men's and women's brains during orgasm are so remarkably similar, perhaps men's analogous pathway for the increased pain threshold will be found soon.