A group of scientists from Rutgers University in New Jersey, has made significant progress in discovering the path of female pleasure, indeed, are changing the focus of the investigation.
To discover the secrets of achieving female orgasm, the researchers decided to look beyond the clitoris and vagina and went to find the answers to the brain, ie the flow of electrical impulses responses and sexual stimulation sends and receives to and from the system nervous.
The study was published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine and presented at the Annual Conference of Neurology in Washington recently.
The Rutgers scientists assembled a group of women and underwent a magnetic resonance imaging while they experienced an orgasm through masturbation and brain imaging were able to obtain exact time of each cycle of sexual arousal.
As expected, the researchers showed that in addition to the vagina and the clitoris, the stimulation of the cervix and breasts also send pleasure signals to the cerebral cortex and activate brain areas involved with pleasure.
What was a surprise is that "stimulation of the breasts causing the reaction in the same area of the brain that genital stimulation, which may explain why some women can reach orgasm through breast stimulation," explains expert.
By stimulating these three regions: the breasts, clitoris and cervix, in regard to sensory cortex, the research showed that there were variations similar to the stimulation of male genitals.
"What caught the attention," he explained in his report, Barry Komisaruk one of the researchers who conducted the study, is that by stimulating the nipples, we found activation not only in the region of the cerebral cortex than we expected but also an awakening of those brain regions that are generally activated by stimulation of the genital area.
While the clitoris is still an area of privileged pleasure, the researcher adds that "We found that when stimulated cervix or vagina also is a strong sensory activation," the researcher who is also co-author of "The Science of Orgasm. "
This conclusion may be very significant if we consider a study published in the Journal of Sex Research and distributed in the American Psychological Association that no less that 67% of heterosexual women have faked orgasms admitted on several occasions.
The discovery marks a milestone in the history of research, as it occurs 60 years after researchers had succeeded in mapping the brain of male pleasure.
