Analgesia produced in women by genital self‐stimulation
作者:
WhippleBeverly,
KomisarukBarryR.,
期刊:
The Journal of Sex Research
(Taylor Available online 1988)
卷期:
Volume 24,
issue 1
页码: 130-140
ISSN:0022-4499
年代: 1988
DOI:10.1080/00224498809551403
出版商: Taylor&Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
This study investigated the relative effectiveness of specific genital regional self‐stimulation in elevating pain thresholds. Anecdotal reports in humans suggest that sexual activity and orgasm decrease a wide variety of human responses to pain and touch, but the phenomenon has not been evaluated objectively. Two types of self‐stimulation, pressure and pleasurable, were applied by 10 women to the anterior vaginal wall, the posterior vaginal wall, and the clitoris. Significant increases in pain thresholds but not tactile thresholds occurred when pressure stimulation was applied to the anterior wall of the vagina or when“pleasurable”self‐stimulation was applied to any of the three areas. Tactile thresholds were not significantly affected by any genital stimulation condition. However, there was a significant increase in tactile threshold but not pain thresholds in the distraction control condition. On the basis of these findings, we conclude that (a) a sensation of pleasure evoked by genital stimulation can elevate pain thresholds, (b) these pleasurable stimuli were not general“distractants”because they elevated pain thresholds but not tactile thresholds differentially, and (c) genital pleasurable stimuli activate an analgesic process that is distinct from a distraction process.
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