In a sample of 97 healthy Dutch female university students, women with greater finger tactile sensitivity (von Frey-type filaments) engaged more in partnered (but not solitary masturbation) sexual behavior. Orgasmic responses in the past 30 days were not correlated with finger sensitivity. Results are discussed in terms of differences between different sexual behaviors, as well as susceptibilit...

Pelvic muscle contractions during sexual response can be monitored conveniently by the anal probe method described. Eleven young adult male subjects were each recorded for three sessions of masturbation to orgasm. Electrical signals from an anal pressure probe were automatically digitized by computer. Orgasmic contractions were easily distinguished from voluntary contractions by the steadily in...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between frequency of orgasm and mortality. STUDY DESIGN Cohort study with a 10 year follow up. SETTING The town of Caerphilly, South Wales, and five adjacent villages. SUBJECTS 918 men aged 45-59 at time of recruitment between 1979 and 1983. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES All deaths and deaths from coronary heart disease. RESULTS Mortality risk was 50% lower i...

BACKGROUND: In its classic form sentinel headache heralds an underlying intracranial aneurysm near rupture. Headache related to sexual activity is normally benign and does not represent a sentinel headache to ulterior intracranial bleeding. Hemicrania continua is a primary headache only exceptionally precipitated by acute central nervous system (CNS) pathology. METHODS: Clinical case history, r...

Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder (PGAD) refers to the experience of persistent sensations of genital arousal that are felt to be unprovoked, intrusive and unrelieved by one or several orgasms. It is often mistaken for hypersexuality since PGAD often results in a high frequency of sexual behaviour. At present little is known with certainty about the etiology of this condition. We described a ...

PURPOSE Sexual adverse events (AEs), a major cause for discontinuing 5α-reductase inhibitor (5ARI) therapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), are known to occur most frequently early in therapy and appear to decline over time. The aim of this study was to investigate the changes in sexual function occurring with dutasteride treatment during a 1-year follow-up period in Korean men. MATERI...