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Zine by Gary Schubach, Ed.D., A.C.S. |
March 2006
1. Article - Seven Types
of Female Orgasm or Annie Sprinkle's Models of Orgasm
2. Question - Enjoying Intercourse More
3 Product - The Complete Guide to Oral Lovemaking
4. Movie Review - Tantric Guide to Sexual Potency (Porn Star Tantra)
Article
Seven Types Of Female Orgasm Or Annie Sprinkle’s Models Of
Orgasm
“ We need to stop defining sex as merely physical function and begin to acknowledge its emotional and spiritual depth.” - Mikaya Hart (1)
“ The use of medical language mystifies human experience, increasing dependence on professionals and experts. If sexuality becomes fundamentally a matter of vasocongestion and myotonia… personal experience requires expert interpretation and explanation.” - Leonore Tiefer (2)
My body, heart and soul have been a laboratory for research on the female orgasm. - Annie Sprinkle
Freud, as brilliant as he was, defined just two types of female orgasm -- vaginal and clitoral. To me, that’s like saying the world is flat! As groundbreaking and invaluable Alfred Kinsey’s statistics on women’s orgasms in America in the mid-twentieth century have been, we have come a long way baby since then. Dr. Masters and Virginia Johnson studied thousands of women having orgasms in their laboratory. However, they focused almost exclusively on the physiological aspects of the ‘sexual response cycle.’ As important as their research has been, that’s like saying LIFE is about heartbeats, blood flow and sweat glands. A number of people have come up with a variety of models of the female orgasm. Here are mine.
My methodology has been to experience as many kinds of female orgasm as I possibly could. My body, heart and soul have been a laboratory for research on the female orgasm. I have come - literally - to know that an excellent way to learn about the many kinds of female orgasm is to have many varieties of lovers, and have as many varieties of sexual experiences as possible. Every sex partner has different sexual skills, styles, and assets, and every sex partner, no matter how gifted, has their limitations. From the age of eighteen to twenty-eight, I had approximately 3,500 sex partners, and experienced sex in a huge variety of ways. (Since I became monogamous, the kinds of orgasms I have are far more limited.) I am not suggesting that sexologists researching orgasm go out and do what I did. I simply want to share some of my findings.
Orgasms are like grains of sand; no two are exactly alike. Examine each grain of sand closely enough and you can see huge differences in each one. You can put them into categories - brown grains, white grains, and pink grains, etc. Still within each subcategory is enormous variety. The same thing happens when you try to group types of orgasm. It is important to bear in mind that one grain of sand is not better or worse than another. And one kind of orgasm is not better or worse than another. They are simply different. Hopefully, my way of categorizing the female orgasm will be helpful in some small way. Perhaps it will help stimulate further discussion, exploration, and research.
DREAM-GASMS
The infamous ‘Kinsey Report’ found that 37% of American females
(in the 1950s) had experienced dreams which led to orgasm by the age of
forty five. (3) These require absolutely no genital stimulation. Sometimes
we simply wake up and we are in orgasm. Sometimes we dream we are having
orgasm and we have one at the same time. Sometimes we only dream of one
but it is orgasmic in a non-physical or less physical way. Dream-gasms
sometimes occur with strong vaginal and anal contractions, and sometimes
not. They can feel like a clitoral orgasm, or an energy orgasm. They are
extremely pleasurable. Sometimes a full bladder can trigger such orgasms.
MICROGASMS
These are quite small, extremely subtle orgasms that occur without any
physical stimulation. They can take various forms. If we simply stop and
focus on our erotic energy body, and visualize the orgasmic flow inside
us, we can physically feel orgasmic waves pulse through our bodies and
feel the “tension and release” on a very subtle level. It’s
similar to the idea that ‘enlightenment is within us.’ If we
focus, we can bring about spiritual feelings. Orgasm is within us. If
we focus, we can bring about orgasmic feelings. It’s as if, when
we focus on our cells multiplying, we can feel the cells having orgasms.
‘Cellular-gasms.’ Ray Stubbs calls them “sprit-body orgasms,”
and explains that they “could be easily missed if we are not looking
for them.” (4) Also if we focus on our autonomic nervous system we
can feel bioenergetic reactions, where the body begins twitching on its
own. This can be super orgasmic. If when we are sneezing, we eroticize
the sneeze, we can transmute it into an orgasm. When we get the “chills,”
we can eroticize the feelings and turn them into orgasms. Juliet Carr,
who does sensual massage, calls the goosebumps that occur from this kind
of orgasm, “orgabumps."
Microgasms can also occur while doing various activities that are pleasurable - walking in the wind, laying in the sun, singing on stage, etc. There has been some scientific study on energy orgasms, but a very minimal amount, as far as I could ascertain. Beverly Whipple and Gina Ogden did a study on “thinking off” in their laboratory - to see if women could have orgasms without genital stimulation. They found that it did occur. They also found that “…there was our own laboratory evidence that some women achieved what they claimed were satisfying orgasms without the characteristic contractions of the orgasmic platform.” (5) It is possible to simply lay down, do nothing but focus on erotic feelings in the body and begin to twitch and shake, with “kriyas” (a yogic term), and go into orgasmic ecstasy. I have known a number of people who can do this. These kinds of orgasm can easily be taught. I have taught many women how to have them in various workshops. They reside just below our surface. All we need to do is let them bubble up.
INTER-VAGINAL ORGASMS
In this category, I will lump together what are called vaginal orgasms,
g-spot orgasms and cervical orgasms - any and all orgasms that happen
inside the vagina with inter-vaginal stimulation (with fingers, fists,
dildos, penises, etc.). Each of these kinds of orgasm feels slightly different,
and sometimes they occur together. Some inter-vaginal orgasms are totally
subtle and some are overwhelming. I believe that many women are having
various kinds of inter-vaginal orgasms all the time but don’t acknowledge
them as such because they are looking for them to feel like clitoral orgasms,
and they don’t. There are many feminists who believe that clitoral
orgasms are the superior orgasms. They want to set the record straight
after Freud misled so many women (and men). Expert sex educator, Betty
Dodson, for example, doesn’t really consider g-spot or vaginal orgasms
valid orgasms. G-spot orgasms can happen with or without ejaculation.
(Ejaculation can also occur without orgasm). Cervical orgasms often occur
with fisting. One can feel a huge tension release deep in the gut. They
are almost like belly orgasms. Often vaginal orgasms can occur without
a climax.
BREATH AND ENERGY ORGASMS
The fact that our mainstream culture does not acknowledge or practice
these kinds of orgasms is, in my expert opinion, a major oversight. Breath
and energy orgasms are wonderful, satisfying and can be mind-blowing.
They are easily learned. Sexologist Ray Stubbs calls this kind of orgasm
"an energy generation model," as opposed to a "tension
release model" (6) Often these kinds of orgasms are taught and enjoyed
by the ‘New Age Tantric types’ of people. Kutira teaches the
“Wave” where one undulates erotically, thus “activating
the cerebral spinal fluid and orgasmic reflex.” Harley Swiftdeer
teaches the Native American version, the Firebreath Orgasm (not to be
confused with the yoga exercise the Breath of Fire) where one lays down
and breathes up through the chakras. Barbara Carrellas and Kate Bornstein
teach their version which they call the Gender-free Orgasm. Jwala and
myself teach Breath and Energy Orgasm. Sunyata Saraswati teaches the Cobra
Breath Orgasm. Some practicioners can generate at will what is perhaps
the most intense kind of energy orgasm, the “Kundalini orgasm.”
They practice this for a lifetime(s) and achieve amazing feats. They also
warn of the dangers of these extremely strong orgasms. When Ray Stubbs
had one, he flew off his chair, fell and became paralyzed. One woman I
know had one and had a nervous breakdown. People have hurt their backs.
On the other hand, they can also be extremely healing, transformative,
and enlightening.
Breath and energy orgasms can occur (or be created) from conscious, rhythmic, deep breathing, or other ways of generating energy in the body such as swimming, running, risk taking, listening to a piece of music, etc. I have talked with several men who were in combat Viet Nam and they told me that when they were in combat, they had erections and had intense energy orgasms, sometimes even with ejaculation. I’d call these feargasms, or adrenalingasms. Basically, a person learns how to build energy with thought, kegals, undulation, visualization, surrender, etc. Once the energy is built, it kicks into a release phase, which can be mild or extremely intense. Squeezing the PC muscles helps eroticize the energy and pump it into the body for a more full-bodied effect. In this category, I would include angergasms, laughgasms and crygasms - where an intense emotional release is ‘orgasmicized’ (like eroticized). Physiologically, these can compare to clitoral and vaginal orgasms, with increased breath rates, with the ‘sex flush,’ increased heart rate, sweaty palms and feet, etc. They can be very physically intense, with lots of tetney (a rebirthing term), and feelings like you are plugged into an electrical socket. There can be enormous tingly sensation in hands, feet, and lips, eyeballs roll back into the head, back arches, and orgasm sounds occur.
CLITORAL ORGASMS
Perhaps the only thing about female orgasm that is at this point in history
widely agreed on is that women can have clitoral orgasms. The clitoris
is stimulated, muscular tension builds, and there are vaginal contractions
and a release of the energy. These can occur as very localized just in
the clitoris, or the feelings can spread up into the belly and groin and
over the whole body. They can be teeny-tiny, or humongous. Clitoral orgasms
can be ‘extended.’ Masters and Johnson found what they coined
“status orgasmus,” orgasms which lasted “20 to more than
60 seconds.” (7) Masters and Johnson definitely didn’t measure
orgasms of the masters. I’ve known women that could have repeated
clitoral orgasms lasting for many minutes in a row. A woman can have clitoral
orgasms without a ‘climax.’ But a clitoral climax always comes
with an orgasm. There are multiple clitoral orgasms, and also possible
are multiple clitoral climaxes. There are very deep clitoral orgasms,
and surface clitoral orgasms.
COMBINATION-GASMS
Sometimes a gal has just one kind of orgasm in one part of the body, in
one way. But often two or more kinds of orgasm are combined in succession
or in tandem. These can be in absolutely any combination. During a single
sex session, one might experience all seven different kinds of orgasm,
if one is very lucky. In fact, energy orgasms are almost always connected
with clitoral or vaginal orgasms. Although I have on some occasions experienced
an orgasm that took place only in my clitoris, and had virtually no energy
behind it at all.
MEGAGASMS
These are the volcano of all orgasms, or the tsunami of all orgasms. A
megagasm is an intense full body experience, a deeply emotional experience,
and for some a deeply spiritual experience. It generally lasts an extended
lengthy of time, from thirty seconds to in some cases up to an hour or
two. Several megagasms have been documented on video, although they are
extremely rare. Not that many women are capable of letting go that deeply
or handling that much pleasure and ecstasy and orgasmic energy. In my
video, Sluts and Goddesses, I have a five-minute long megagasm. Megagasms
are usually brought about by very intense physical stimulation - with
very hard fucking combined with a really strong vibrator on the clitoris,
fist fucking, anal sex with vaginal and clitoral stimulation, etc. Sometimes
some uncomfort or pain can trigger one. The stimulation goes way beyond
normal love making, into surrendering to intense physical force and massive
genital manipulation (which can also include kissing, nipple sucking,
bondage, etc.).
It helps to have an ‘orgasm midwife,’ someone who is totally present that can manage and handle the incredible intensity of such orgasms. (Many people can be very scared of, and uncomfortable with the force of megagasms.) The person having the orgasm’s face can severely contort like one is having a baby, there is a huge ego surrender. Megagasms can come with past life recalls, and intense visual imagery like with psychedelics. It can feel as if there is a lifetime of pent up energy and emotion bursting free. They are very primal. There can be a sensation of being ‘breathed by the universe,’ like you are a channel for orgasmic energy, like you are open for the life force to pass through you. Often people will have empathetic orgasms when they are in the presence of someone having megagasm.
IN CONCLUSION
Much of the research about orgasm has been to focus in on, to magnify,
and to define exactly what orgasm is. I believe we must widen our perceptions
and expand our concepts of orgasm. Interview and test the orgasm experts
- the women who have had extra-ordinary experience with orgasm. Many women
think that if an orgasm doesn’t feel like a clitoral orgasm, then
it must not be an orgasm. They are limiting themselves. Expanding our
concept of orgasm can open the mind and body to experiencing new things.
With proper instruction and with practice, they become more conscious
and clear. Then we can enjoy living more ecstatic, healthy, orgasmic lives,
filled with ecstasy and bliss.
FOOTNOTES
1. Heart, Mikaya. When the Earth Moves—Women and Orgasm. P. 6.
2. Strong, Bryan and DeVault, Christine. Human Sexuality. P. 117.
3. Kinsey, Alfred, et al. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. W.B. Saunders
Company, Philadelphia/London. 1953—P. 196
4. Stubbs, Kenneth Ray. Sacred Orgasms. P. 67
5. Ladas, Alice Kahn, Whipple, Beverly, and Perry, John D. The G Spot
P. 147
6. Stubbs, Kenneth Ray. Sacred Orgasms. P.70
7. Masters, William H. M.D. and Johnson, Virginia E. Human Sexual Response.
P. 131-132
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Heart, Mikaya. When the Earth Moves—Women and Orgasm. Celestial Arts.
Berkeley, Ca. 1998
Ladas, Alice Kahn, Whipple, Beverly, and Perry, John D. The G Spot. Holt,
Rinehart and Winston, New York. 1982.
Masters, William H. M.D. and Johnson, Virginia E. Human Sexual Response.
Little, Brown and Company, Boston. 1966.
Schwartz, Bob. The One Hour Orgasm. Breakthru Publishing, Houston, Texas.
1989.
Strong, Bryan and DeVault, Christine. Human Sexuality. Mayfield Publishing
Co. Mountain View, Ca. 1994.
Stubbs, Kenneth Ray. Sacred Orgasms. Secret Gardens, Larkspur, Ca. 1992.
JOURNALS
Tiefer, Leonore. Historical, Scientific, Clinical and Feminist Criticisms
of “The Human Sexual Response Cycle” Model. Annual Review of
Sex Research, Volume 2, 1991.
Annie Sprinkle Ph.D. is the prostitute/porn star turned performance artist/sexologist. She has passionately researched and explored sexuality in all of its glorious and inglorious forms for thirty years, and has shared her findings all along the way through producing and starring in her own unique brand of sex films, photographic work, teaching workshops, and college lectures. She is also an internationally acclaimed performance artist who tours one woman shows about her life in sex. Annie has championed sex worker rights and health care. She was one of the pivotal players in the 80’s "sex positive feminist movement". Her website is ANNIESPRINKLE.ORG(ASM).
Question
I'm a woman and I don't enjoy intercourse. My gynecologist said that there is nothing wrong with me physically as to why I should have that problem. I just don't have enough experience (I've only tried penetration like 3 times) and then always avoided it because I never felt pleasure from it. I enjoy everything else though (touching, oral, etc. and always have orgasms either manually or orally) but I want to enjoy intercourse because I know it's a big part of love making. What can I do?
Thank you for your question. My view is that, in most cases, so-called sexual "problems" are a result of learning deficits. In other words, given what most people are taught about sexuality in school, by their families and peers, their anxieties and difficulties are absolutely reasonable and understandable. The possibilities of fun and enjoyment are usually not mentioned in the same breath as sex or sexual intercourse but, just look at some of our films and books and you can begin to understand, with an open mind and an open heart, the idea that it is possible to create a sexual relationship, including intercourse, that is truly a reflection of your love and caring for another and is a source of enjoyment for both of you.
What I would recommend is that you purchase one or more of the films and books that we sell on how to create extraordinary sex. Specifically, I would recommend The Lover's Guide: Advanced Sexual Techniques, The Lover's Guide to Sexual Ecstasy, or Ancient Secrets of Sexual Ecstasy. Also, angles of penetration can be important. We have just begun carrying Liberator® Shapes Bedroom Adventure Gear, which might help you. -- Doctor G
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Movie
Review
The
Tantric Guide to Sexual Potency
"Porn Stars Tantra"
Reviewed
by
Gary Schubach,
Ed.D.
I first saw the film, The
Tantric Guide to Sexual Potency, in the mid-90s when I was a graduate
student and I immediately dubbed it "porn stars tantra." Its
initial distribution was through conventional adult film distributors
and it faded from view fairly quickly. I remember being impressed with
how well the porn legends, Kay Parker, Mike Horner, Sharon Kane, and Jon
Dough, expressed the concepts of Tantra
in a way that was both understandable and entertaining to a mainstream
audience.
This film is so different from anything you are likely to have seen in
Adult Films before that
it almost defies classification. When most of us think of Tantra,
the Asian spiritual discipline of the senses and sensuality, one thing
that probably doesn't come to mind is sexual intercourse vigorously pursued
to orgasm. It's not that Tantra
has anything against intercourse. It's just that there is so much more
to Tantra.
This DVD could be considered a good introduction to the usefulness of
Hatha Yoga and Tantra practices,
while at the same time being a tantalizing erotic film, with several scenes
of couples having intercourse, but with a difference. The film begins
and ends with some juicy sex scenes, looking pretty much like what most
people do, except that both participants kept their eyes open and stayed
present with each other.
Then there is a rather abrupt transition to a non-sexual introduction
to Hatha Yoga, the Yoga of positions and breathing. Kay Parker’s
message at this point is that Hatha Yoga is the key to continued sexual
potency, which is pretty hard to argue with. After demonstrating and explaining
several positions, we are shown how that exercise keeps us strong enough
and supple enough to permit us to assume some challenging positions with
pleasure and without straining anything. She also makes the well-deserved
point that Hatha Yoga can support Tantric
practice, since Tantra is
about energy and prolonging the sex act. Regular practice of Yoga positions
can help you build up your strength and stamina, as well as your ability
to feel more.
After the very straight Hatha Yoga segment, there is another rather abrupt
transition to a well-written essay on the essentials of Tantra,
during which we have more intercourse sequences, most of which go to orgasm.
Kay Parker continues to narrate during these scenes, and you almost have
to ignore what's happening on the screen to appreciate what she is saying.
What’s great about this DVD
is that it can give you some useful practices to add to your sex life,
like Hatha Yoga and some basic Tantra positions, and the material is delivered
in a way that certainly gets your attention, and provides some nice turn-on
at the same time. You might want to watch it twice, first to be tantalized,
and the second time to be educated. The
Tantric Guide to Sexual Potency can be purchased through Doctor
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