According to research from Rutgers University, having an orgasm is a better brain exercise than doing crossword puzzles or sudoku.
According to research from Rutgers University, having an orgasm is a better brain exercise than doing crossword puzzles or sudoku.
By putting women into a magnetic resonance imaging machine and measuring the blood flow to different parts of their brain while they had orgasms, researchers found that 30 parts of the brain were activated during sexual climax.
The different parts of the brain being stimulated are responsible for sensations including touch, memory, reward and pain.
Professor Barry Komisaruk, from Rutgers University in New Jersey, said: “At orgasm we see a tremendous increase in the blood flow to the brain. It brings all the nutrients and oxygenation to the brain. Mental exercises increase brain activity but only in relatively localized regions. Orgasm activates the whole.”
Other perceived benefits of having an orgasm include pain reduction, which Komisaruk says could be useful for the pain of childbirth, depression or anxiety.
Komisaruk has been researching female sexual pleasure since the 1960s, when he was conducting experiments with mice, before using human subjects starting in 1982.
