A
rather high percentage of women do not reach the
climax in sexual intercourse. The frigidity
figures of different authors vary from 10-80 per
cent and come closer to the statistics of older
sexologists. Adler (Berlin) came to the
conclusion that 80 per cent of women did not
reach the sexual climax. Elkan guessed that 50
per cent suffered from frigidity, while Kinsey
found it to be 75 per cent. Hardenberg's figures
have a very wide range from 10 to 75 per cent.
Many of these statistics
cannot be compared, since the various authors
use different criteria. Edmund Bergler sees the
condition of eupareunia only in vaginal orgasm
and so his frigidity figures are naturally much
higher than those based on any kind of sexual
satisfaction. The restriction to the vaginal
orgasm, however, does not give the true picture
of female sexuality.
Lack of orgasm and frigidity
are not identical. Frigid women can enjoy
orgasm. The lesbian is frigid in her relations
to a heterosexual partner, but is completely
satisfied by homosexual loveplays. A deficient
orgasm need not always be associated with
frigidity. Numerous women have satisfactory
enjoyment in normal heterosexual intercourse,
even if they do not reach the orgasm. Genuine
frigidity should be spoken of only if there is
no response to any partner and in all
situations. A woman with only clitoris orgasm is
not frigid and sometimes is even more active
sexually, because she is hunting for a male
partner who would help her to achieve the
fulfillment of her erotic dreams and desires.
Although female erotism has
been discussed for many centuries or even
thousands of years, the problems of female
satisfaction are not yet solved. Even though
female doctors (Helena Wright) participate in
these discussions nowadays, "the eternal woman"
is still under discussion. The solution of the
problem would be better furthered, if the
sexologists know exactly what they are talking
about.
The criteria for sexual
satisfaction have first to be fixed before we
make comparisons. Numerous "frigid" women enjoy
thoroughly all the different phases of
"necking." Should we count out all variations of
sex practices which result in complete orgasm
though not vaginal orgasm?
Innumerable erotogenic spots
are distributed all over the body, from where
sexual satisfaction can be elicited; these are
so many that we can almost say that there is no
part of the female body which does not give
sexual response, the partner has only to find
the erotogenic zones.
Female erogenous zones
The hot, hotter and hottest
parts of the female body.
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Foreplay tip
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Inexperienced lovers rush to
her hottest zones first.
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Bad idea.
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Most women prefer that you
go to her hottest zones
LAST.
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Great lovers are in no hurry
to go to her hottest zones.
They will spend
leisurely time on her hot
zones, and then gradually
move to her hotter
zones. And only when she
almost pleads with him to go
to her hottest
zones, does he go there.
In spite of abundant
literature dealing with female orgasm, our
knowledge of the mechanism and the localisation
of the final climax is insufficient. Different
organs and their stimulation work as a trigger
and cause an increase of the sexual "potential"
up to the level where the orgasm goes off. One
could suppose that the clitoris alone is
involved in causing excitation, since this organ
is an erotic center even before puberty, though
it is aided by other erotogenic zones.
Inflammations of the
clitoris, especially below the prepuce, can make
it so hypersensitive that it loses its ability
to produce orgasm. Such changes occur by
masturbation in elderly women after the
menopause when the external genitals shrink and
become affected by hypoesterogenism. The
erotogenic power of the clitoris passes then
mostly to the neighborhood of the genital
organs, to the inside of the small labia or to
the pubic region of the abdomen. The entrance to
the rectum can also become an erotogenic center,
not for anal intercourse, but for stimulation
with the finger. In one of my patients vaginal
orgasm was lost completely, but orgasm could be
achieved with a finger in the anus and the penis
in the vagina. Sometimes the breasts help the
clitoris in producing erotization. Kissing the
nipples, touching them with the penis, or
inserting the penis between the two breasts lead
to an orgasm. Cunnilingus or even insertion of
the penis in the external orifice of the ear are
other illustrations of the variability of the
erotogenic zones in females.
Some investigators of female
sex behavior believe that most women cannot
experience vaginal orgasm, because there are no
nerves in the vaginal wall. In contrast to this
statement by Kinsey, Hardenberg mentions that
nerves have been demonstrated only inside the
vagina in the anterior wall, proximate to the
base of the clitoris. This I can confirm by my
own experience of numerous women. An erotic zone
always could be demonstrated on the anterior
wall of the vagina along the course of the
urethra. Even when there was a good response in
the entire vagina, this particular area was more
easily stimulated by the finger than the other
areas of the vagina. Women tested this way
always knew when the finger slipped from the
urethra by the impairment of their sexual
stimulation. During orgasm this area is pressed
downwards against the finger like a small
cystocele protruding into the vaginal canal. It
looked as if the erotogenic part of the anterior
vaginal wall tried to bring itself in closest
contact with the finger. It could be found in
all women, far more frequently than the spastic
contractions of the levator muscles of the
pelvic floor which are described as objective
symptoms of the female orgasm by Levine. After
the orgasm was achieved a complete relaxation of
the anterior vaginal wall sets in.
Erotogenic
zones in the female urethra are sometimes the
cause of urethral onanism. I have seen two girls
who had stimulated themselves with hair pins in
their urethra. The blunt part of the old
fashioned hair pin was introduced into the
urethra and moved forwards and backwards. During
the ecstasy of the orgasm the girls lost control
of the pin which went into the bladder. Both
girls felt ashamed and tried to hide the
incident from their mothers until a huge bladder
stone had developed around the pin as centre.
One stone was removed by supra-pubic, and the
other by vaginal, cystotomy. A third hair pin
entered the bladder and before the bladder was
inflamed, it was angled out via the urethra.
Since the old hairpins are no more in use,
pencils are used for urethral onanism. They are
longer than the hairpins and do not glide into
the bladder so easily, though they cause a
painful urethritis. Urethral onanism may happen
in men as well. I saw a patient with a rifle
bullet which glided into his bladder. He had
played with it while he was lonesome on duty on
New Years Eve. Analogous to the male urethra,
the female urethra also seems to be surrounded
by erectile tissues like the corpora cavernosa.
In the course of sexual stimulation, the female
urethra begins to enlarge and can be felt
easily. It swells out greatly at the end of
orgasm. The most stimulating part is located at
the posterior urethra, where it arises from the
neck of the bladder. Sometimes patients of Birth
Control clinics complain that their sexual
feelings were impaired by the diaphragm pessary.
In such cases the orgastic capacity was restored
by the use of the plastic cervical cap, which
does not cover the erotogenic zone of the
anterior vaginal wall. Such complaints occurred
more frequently in Europe than here in the U. S.
A., and was one of the reasons for giving
preference to the cervical cap over the
diaphragm pessary.
Frigidity after hysterectomy
may happen, if the erotogenic zone of the
anterior vaginal wall was removed at the time of
the operation. The vaginal wall is preserved
best by the abdominal subtotal hysterectomy,
less by the total hysterectomy and least by
vaginal hysterectomy when always large parts of
the vagina are removed. That is the cause of
vaginal frigidity after vaginal hysterectomy
observed by LeMon Clark.
The uterus or the cervix
uteri takes no part in producing orgasm, even
though Havelock Ellis speaks of the sucking in
of sperm by the cervix into the uterus. The
non-existence of the uterine suction power was
proved by a simple experiment, in which a
plastic cervical cap was filled with a contrast
oil (radiopac) and fitted over the cervix. The
cap was left in for the whole interval between
two menstrual periods. These women had frequent
sexual relations with satisfying orgasm.
Repeated X-ray pictures taken during the time
when the cap was covering the cervix, never
showed any of the contrast medium inside the
cervix or in the body of the uterus. The whole
contrast medium was always in the cap. The
glands around the vaginal orifice, especially
the large Bartholin glands, have a lubricating
effect. Therefore they are located at the
entrance of the vagina and produce their mucus
at the beginning of the sexual relations and not
synchronously with the orgasm. Sometimes the
mucus is produced so abundantly and makes the
vulva slippery, that the female partner is
inclined to compare it with the ejaculation of
the male. Occasionally the production of fluids
is so profuse that a large towel has to be
spread under the woman to prevent the bed sheets
getting soiled. This convulsory expulsion of
fluids occurs always at the acme of the orgasm
and simultaneously with it. If there is the
opportunity to observe the orgasm of such women,
one can see that large quantities of a clear
transparent fluid are expelled not from the
vulva, but out of the urethra in gushes. At
first I thought that the bladder sphincter had
become defective by the intensity of the orgasm.
Involuntary expulsion of urine is reported in
sex literature. In the cases observed by us, the
fluid was examined and it had no urinary
character. I am inclined to believe that "urine"
reported to be expelled during female orgasm is
not urine, but only secretions of the
intraurethral glands correlated with the
erotogenic zone along the urethra in the
anterior vaginal wall. Moreover the profuse
secretions coming out with the orgasm have no
lubricating significance, otherwise they would
be produced at the beginning of intercourse and
not at the peak of orgasm. The intensity of the
orgasm is dependent on the area from which it is
elicited. Mostly, cunnilingus leads to a more
complete orgasm and (consequent) relaxation. The
deeper the relaxation after intercourse the
higher is the peak of the orgasm followed by
depression and hence the students' joke: Post
coitum omne animal triste est. The higher the
climax the quicker is the reloading of the
sexual potential.
Other somatic factors help to
sexually stimulate the female partner. As was
mentioned there is no spot in the female body,
from which sexual desire could not be aroused.
Some women have greater sexual desire at the
ovulation time while others at the time of the
menstrual period. It may be that during
menstruation the sexual tension is higher,
because the danger of unwanted pregnancy is
lessened. The woman-on-top posture is more
stimulating as the erotogenic parts come in
contact better. The angle which is formed by the
erected penis and the male abdomen has a great
influence on the female orgasm. These mere
somatic causes are often overshadowed by psychic
factors, even the commonest automatic reflexes
produce sexual reactions. It is possible to
cause an orgasm merely by using some stimulating
sentence. Such a reaction follows the laws of
the unconditioned reflexes. The erotogenic zone
on the anterior wall of the vagina can be
understood only from a comparison with the
phylogenetic ancestry. In the most commonly
adopted position, where "the lady does lay on
her back," the penis does not reach the urethral
part of the vaginal wall, unless the angle of
the erected male organ is very steep or if the
anterior vagina is directed towards the penis as
by putting the legs of the female over the
shoulders of her partner. The contact is very
close, when the intercourse is performed more
hestiarum or a la vache i.e. a posteriori. LeMon
Clark is right when he mentions that we were
designed as quadrupeds. Therefore, intercourse
from the back of the woman is the most natural
one. This can be performed either in the
side-to-side posture with the male partner
behind, or better still with the woman in Sims',
knee-elbow or shoulder position, the husband
standing in front of the bed. The female
genitals have to be higher than the other parts
of her body. The stimulating effect of this kind
of intercourse must not be explained away as
LeMon Clark does by the melodious movements of
the testicles like a knocker on the clitoris,
but is merely caused by the direct thrust of the
penis towards the urethral erotic zone. Certain
it is that this area in the anterior vaginal
wall is a primary erotic zone, perhaps more
important than the clitoris, which got its
erotic supremacy only in the age of necking. The
erotising effect of coitus a posteriori is very
great, as only in this position the most
stimulating parts of both partners are brought
in closest contact i.e., clitoris and anterior
vaginal wall of the wife and the sensitive parts
of the glans penis. This short paper will, I
hope, show that <B><I>the anterior wall of the
vagina along the urethra is the seat of a
distinct erotogenic zone and has to be taken
into account more in the treatment of female
sexual deficiency.
Reference
Adler, The Frigidity of the Female Sex</I>,
Berlin, 1913
Elkan, The Evolution of Female Orgastic Ability
-- A Biological Survey, Int. J. Sexol, Vol. II,
No. 2
LeMon, Clark, The Orgasm Problem in Women, Int.
J. Sexol, Vol. II, No. 4 and Vol. III, No. 1
Hardenberg, The Psychology of Feminine Sex
Experience, Int. J. Sexol, Vol. II, No. 4
Kinsey, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
Bergler, Frigidity, Misconceptions and Facts,
Marriage Hygiene, Vol. I, No. 1
Helena Wright, A Contribution to the Orgasm
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