About Orgasm

What is Orgasm?

Orgasm is considered to be the culminating event. Masters and Johnson (1996) described the male's and female's sexual arousal response cycle in four parts:

1. the excitement phase,
2. the plateau phase,
3. the orgasmic phase, and
4. the resolution phase (also includes refractory phase for males).

This article focuses on the orgasmic phase; but remember that all the stages directly or indirectly related to each other and finally to orgasm. The first stage, excitement, refers to body's physiological response to psychological/physical sexual stimulation. If the individual maintains the excitement phase, the second, or plateau, phase is entered. Sexual tension increases if the individual continues to find the sexual stimuli exciting. The ultimate release of continuing tension results in orgasm, contraction of the sex organs.

Difference between male and female orgasm

During the orgasmic phase, involuntary climax is reached, with sensations occurring for females primarily in the clitoris, vagina, and uterus. For men, orgasm includes sensations mainly in the penis, prostate, and seminal vesicles. The final stage, resolution, in the inevitable loss of tension. Added to this cycle for men is the refractory period, the time during which the penis once again achieves tumescence.

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