Development of a woman's multiple orgasm pattern: A research case report

A 36‐year‐old woman with limited previous sexual experience was repeatedly monitored as she learned to stimulate herself digitally to orgasm. During 7 laboratory sessions spanning 5 months, she was recorded physiologically and interviewed in detail about her subjective experiences of orgasm. From session III onward, the subject experienced multiple orgasms in the laboratory. The orgasm frequency ranged from 3 orgasms in 7 minutes (session III) to 7 orgasms in 16 minutes (session VI). Anal pressure was chosen to illustrate the development of her multiple orgasm pattern. The series of regular contractions were more prominent during the initial orgasms of successive sessions. In later orgasms of a session, regular contractions were few in number or did not occur. A drop in pressure, however, invariably related to the start of each signalled orgasm. Her attempts to relate subjective terms to physiologic events call attention to semantic issues in describing orgasm. This research case report can serve as a heuristic model for exploring both the psychophysiologic aspects of orgasm and the ontogeny of sexual response patterns.