10 orgasm facts

1. Marilyn Monroe claimed she never achieved orgasm with any of her famous lovers (including John F. Kennedy, Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio).

2. Have a headache? Maybe you should have sex, after all. Orgasms can relieve all kinds of pain—including pain from arthritis, pain after surgery and even pain during childbirth.

3. A pig’s orgasm can last 30 minutes.

4. According to the Kinsey Institute, the average speed of ejaculate during a male orgasm is 45 km/h (in contrast, sperm, travel less than 4 centimetres in15 minutes of intense swimming).

5. Ladies, there are plenty of things to gripe about when it comes to getting older, but as you age you get more orgasms and they are bigger and better.

6. Studies show that males orgasm 59% of the time while their partner is screaming in ecstasy, and only 2% of the time while he or she’s lying quietly, counting the holes in the acoustic board in the ceiling.

7. According to a university of Kansas study, 25% of guys say they have faked.

8. The most recorded orgasms in an hour: 134 for a woman and 16 for a man.

9. In When Harry Met Sally, the woman who says ‘I'll have what she's having’ after Sally's faked orgasm is director Rob Reiner's mother.

10. You can have an orgasm when you are dead. By stimulating the sacral nerve root (the headquarters for orgasms, along the spinal nerve) with an electrode, scientists can trigger an orgasm, even in the legally dead.

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