Did you know? This is what happens to your brain after orgasm

As we all know, sex is one of the most pleasurable activities performed by the vast majority of human beings.

After having finished it, the couple can not help feeling happy and happy.

However, many think that sexual activity is totally divorced from the thoughts that are lodged within our brain.

If you are one of the people who had this kind of mentality, this article is for you.

Having sex is an activity as normal as eating, sleeping and going to the bathroom.

When we carry out sexual activity, our brain is oxygenated immediately. That is why we find ourselves in a better state of mind once it is over.

What is the relationship between the brain and orgasm?
Orgasm is the climax of sexual pleasure, at this stage, both men and women, experience a series of unexplained emotions.

So much so that the brain enters a phase that experts usually call "the little death".

Many couples find it difficult to reach this maximum point and when it happens, the neurons turn on and off at the same time.

Also, the aforementioned oxygenation is carried out because a large amount of hormones and neurotransmitters is produced.

Each of the signals that we give to our body to reach orgasm, are previously encoded in our brain.

At that time, the libido is awakened, causing the heart rate to increase.

As well as the appearance of physical changes such as erection, ejaculation and contraction of the uterus.

Many specialists refer to orgasm as the most "traumatic" experience of human beings.

Well in thousandths of seconds, the brain receives a large quantity of a hormone called dopamine.

Oxytocin is another of the hormones produced after orgasm that has the function of generating tranquility to the body.

With these lines, it is demonstrated that at the moment of orgasm, it is when the brain is more connected to our body.

In this way, all these emotions produced by a moment of pleasure can be channeled in a better way.

What happens in a woman's brain when they stimulate her clitoris? To begin with, what we know is that the same parts of the brain are activated as in rats when they are stimulated by the clitoris. Dr. Jim Pfaus and his students are the ones who give themselves to the task of stimulating the rats with a "magic brush" and have compared their analysis (by subjecting the rats to MRIs in their brains) with the studies of Dr. Barry Komisaruk, who has done the same research work but in women. Clitoral pleasure ignites in the rodents and in the women the same brain area, and this is discretely revealing.

Pfaus points out that "Mother Nature loves something that works" and maintains it through the species. "We are all the same creatures, but we have a massive cortex that allows us to give meanings that animals may not." That is, the difference between the function that the clitoris has in a woman and in a rat, according to Pfaus, is above all a difference in the way in which we give meaning to the world, a semantic difference that is not minor for that reason.

Even if the ovaries are removed, thus suppressing the hormonal influences, the desire for stimulation of the clitoris is maintained: "the rats look for the magic brush" says Pfaus. Similarly, it has been seen that postmenopausal women who do not take hormone replacements masturbate. "It is a homology", reiterates the researcher.

One study showed that clitoral stimulation generates activation of the c-Fos protein. Interestingly, it has been linked to LSD with the increase of expression of this same protein. Is the clitoral stimulation similar to lysergic stimulation?

Initial studies have associated c-Fos with chromatin, whose function is related to the reinforcement of DNA to allow mitosis and meiosis and prevent DNA damage, as well as to control the expression of genes.

There are many questions and few answers about the evolutionary function of the female orgasm and the clitoris. Many women manage to reach orgasm only through clitoral stimulation, which is why some researchers theorize that the clitoris may have the adaptive function of causing orgasms, under the hypothesis clinically studied that orgasm favors a greater retention in the amount of sperm if you do not have an orgasm.

A simpler explanation argues that the clitoris has the function of exciting the woman and thus provoking the desire for sexual intercourse, which in turn increases the possibility of reproduction.

An interesting case is that of the macaques and the chimpanzees. The females of these species are conditioned to the pleasurable sensations of clitoral stimulation to keep copulating with multiple partners until they have an orgasm. This means that the males do not know who their children are and who does not, which in turn prevents them from attacking them (in other species the monkeys come to kill the offspring that did not procreate). So maybe the clitoris is a vestige (or why not, a new call) of polygamy.

Some scientists, such as Stephen Jay Gould, have been criticized for pointing out that the clitoris is a simple vestige (a kind of appendix) without evolutionary function, a kind of undeveloped penis. This assumption is based on the hypothesis that the female orgasm has no evolutionary function, something that has been seriously questioned by several studies, including that of Randy Thornhill and Steve Gangestad, who suggest that women have more orgasms with men with symmetric features (symmetry is equivalent to a healthier immune system) because their genes are more fit.

Although certainly none of these statements is conclusive, the enigmatic reasons surrounding clitoral pleasure are opened with renewed vigor. And remember that Greek myth in which the transsexual prophet Tiresias, the one who was on both sides of the genre, answers the question of the divine couple, Hera and Zeus, which is the woman who enjoys most in the sexual act. Perhaps the clitoris, with its stream of nerve endings, is one of the keys of the supreme feminine pleasure and why man on this planet enjoys, above all, through the vehicle of femininity.