Multiple Os

Umit Sayin (2019), a professor and researcher at the Istanbul University Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, created a scale for classifying clitoris-owners’ extended sexual response. The staircase model, shown here or here, ranges from experiences of “anorgasmia” to experiences of “extreme peak experience of more powerful ‘super orgasms.’” This chart provides the more information on clitoris-owners who report experiencing some type of expanded orgasm experience.

The author, who has written multiple publications on orgasm and extended sexual response in clitoris-owners, selected the following types of orgasms from reviewed literature: Deep Vaginal Erogenous Zones (DVZ), Grafenberg Spot (G-Spot), Expanded Sexual Response (ESR) Vaginal-Coital Orgasms, Blended Orgasms, Expanded Orgasms,Status Orgasmus, Never Ending Orgasms (Super-Orgasms), and Tantric Orgasms.   

DEFINITIONS FROM ARTICLE 

Extended Sexual Response (ESR) ability “to attain long lasting and/or prolonged and/ or multiple and/or sustained orgasms and/or status orgasmus that lasted longer and more intense than the classical orgasm patterns defined in the literature” (p. 381)

Single Orgasm(SO): “Clitoral or vaginal orgasms. Clitoral orgasm is mediated by prudential nerve; vaginal orgasm thought to be mediated by pelvic nerve” (p. 381). Although some literature claims this, scholars disagree on the existence of and the conceptualization of the vaginal orgasm. For more information, check out here, here, and here. The author discusses this topic here.

Multiple orgasms (MO) “can be either clitoral or vaginal or induced by both. There is a successive train of orgasms, generally increasing in amplitude and intensity gradually” (p 381).

Blended Orgasms (BO): “Blended orgasms can be mediated by the orgasm triggering mechanism of both clitoris and spots of vaginal origin (Deep Vaginal Erogenous Zones (DVZ): such as G-Spot, A-Spot, O-Spot, PFM or Cervix). A blended orgasm is much more intense than a clitoral or vaginal orgasm alone. Both prudential and pelvic nerves mediate the triggering of blended orgasm. Blended orgasms are much more satisfactory, and they are multiple orgasms” (p. 382)

Status orgasmus (SO) “is the continuous form of blended orgasms and/or clitoral/vaginal orgasms that last for starting from 1 minute to 10-15 minutes (or more). During status orgasmus a continuous orgasmic state is experienced and very few women are believed to achieve status orgasmus state. Status orgasmus can be seen in vaginal and clitoral orgasms, however mostly it is seen as an expanded/extended form of blended orgasms, in which both clitoral and vaginal orgasmus reflexes are triggered at the same time. Similar orgasmic states and full body orgasms are also defined in Tantric literature” (p. 382) 

COMMENTS ON MODEL 

Classifying types of orgasm is challenging. Defining what an orgasm is also difficult. Such a complex phenomenon may have many typologies that are not yet described in literature or elsewhere. The author reviewed the available literature and tantra books for clitoris-owner orgasm typology. They noted that much about the clitoris-owners orgasm and type of orgasms is still a mystery.

Is typology determined the location where the subject feels the orgasm? Is typology determined by the region that is stimulated to obtain the orgasm? Does it necessitate different endocrinological, neurological, sensory, subjective,or psychological manifestations? What about non-genital orgasms?

Despite the gaps in the literature, the author manages to make a working list of reported orgasm typologies and make a model of it. Here are some of my thoughts on the model:

• Some tantric concepts are cited in this paper. Many of the citations are from tantra sources. Tantra is tied to spiritual practice, so one might be more inclined to put it higher on the ladder model. To date, tantric “never-ending orgasms” or “full-body orgasms” have not been studied extensively. Full-body orgasms are also reported by people who do not practice tantra. For a critical review of some of the tantra sources, see here and here.
• The author distinguishes between clitoral and vagina orgasms. It’s currently debated in the scientific community whether vagina orgasms are a distinct type of orgasm or if they are a clitoral orgasm with internal stimulation. I plan to write more extensively about this controversy.
• The author notes some literature, particularly from tantra sources, indicates that expanded sexual response can be learned. There may be a learned component for some people. There might also be a genetic or biological component.
• The model is not intended to be read from top to bottom, but like a spectrum. It intended to be a practical, easy-to-read heuristic, not a theoretical model. I have integrated this model in with the ecological model and eliminated hierarchy.

THERE IS CURRENTLY NO EQUIVALENT CHART FOR TRANS PEOPLE AND PENIS-OWNERS. 

Few studies on the orgasm typologies reported by some trans people are available. A tradition of reductionism has contributed to the interpretation of extended sexual response in penis-owners. Few studies exist on anything other than the penis-owner ejaculatory orgasm. Perhaps in the next decade there will be enough information to provide an updated chart with other types of orgasms with a combination of neurological, psychological, endocrinological, and physiological explanations. 

ARTICLE 

While I focused on just the model in this post, the author discusses many topics like BDSM and the Diagnostic Statistical Manual as well as the hypersexuality in the BDSM and multi-orgasmic. I highly recommend reading the entire study. It is available for download for free.

ABSTRACT

In sexuality research and sex therapy, it is generally very difficult to define“the normal” and to differentiate variations, mild and harmless fantasies,sexual games and fantasy role play from paraphilia. In DSM classifications,there are still dilemmas, misinterpretations, contradictions and controversies to define paraphilias and what pathology is and what is not. There are new definitions and terminology in sexuality research, such as “Expanded Sexual Response” (ESR), “status orgasmus” “Never Ending Orgasms (Super Orgasms)”,“Deep Vaginal Erogenous Zones” (DVZ),”Sexual Pleasure Objects” (SEPOs),“Hypersexuality” “Non-genital orgasms” and “soft-non-pathological BDSM” etc. In this review novel definitions of some new notions are given and it is discussed why those sexual behaviors cannot be regarded as a pathology or paraphilia, such as “Hypersexuality” and soft-BDSM; a unified definition of paraphilias is proposed. Sometimes, ESR women are often confused with pathological hypersexuality. ESR is defined as: “being able to attain long lasting and/orprolonged and/or multiple and/or sustained orgasms and/or status orgasmus that lasted longer and more intense than the classical orgasm patterns defined in the literature”. Lately a research performed in United Kingdom revealed that the research team had discovered more than 500 women who were having more than 30to 50 orgasms in one or two hours (see: You Tube, “Never Ending Orgasm”documentary). We have concluded in many publications that during an ESR orgasm and status orgasmus, some women can have trains of tens of orgasms in a given love making session. Women can be trained to achieve ESR orgasms and it is a learned phenomenon. Although defined recently in medical literature, the notion of ESR is as old as history, starting from the Dionysus Cult Era and Far Eastern sexual traditions descending from Early Ages and Tantra and Taoist cultures. At the turn of 21st Century, Female Orgasm is still a mystery and we only know the tip of the Orgasmic Iceberg of Females.