# Can you bring a paralysed person to orgasm with a backrub? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 12, 2012, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-a-paralysed-person-to-orgasm-with-a-backrub/634486 "2012-09-12T08:51:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Laudenum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-a-paralysed-person-to-orgasm-with-a-backrub/634486/1 "2012-09-12T08:51:00Z")
Bit of a non sequiter here. I saw a television programme many years ago which featured a woman in a wheelchair who could not feel anything below her waist, but could be made orgasm with a backrub. Is this true/common? (So tempted to put ‘Answers needed quickly’) ---
**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-a-paralysed-person-to-orgasm-with-a-backrub/634486/2 "2012-09-12T09:45:04Z")
Mmm. That’s all I have to say, 'kay? ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-a-paralysed-person-to-orgasm-with-a-backrub/634486/3 "2012-09-12T11:53:50Z")
I’ve brought a non-paralyzed person to orgasm with a backrub, but I’m blessed to be married to a woman who has no difficulty achieving orgasm (although, we did notice a slight dip in this post-partum) ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-a-paralysed-person-to-orgasm-with-a-backrub/634486/4 "2012-09-12T12:11:18Z")
Everyone’s different; there are probably a small percentage of able-bodied folk who can climax via a backrub. I read a book years ago that mentioned a woman who could climax by rubbing her earlobes. I don’t doubt that there are paraplegics who can climax via backrub, but I would not expect the percentage of paraplegics who can do this to be any greater than the percentage of able-bodied folk with the same ability. ---
**Author:** ![Sinisterniik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@Sinisterniik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinisterniik)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-a-paralysed-person-to-orgasm-with-a-backrub/634486/5 "2012-09-12T14:30:34Z")
I’d try a frontrub, myself. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-a-paralysed-person-to-orgasm-with-a-backrub/634486/6 "2012-09-12T16:31:49Z")
I have brought some women to orgasm with non-genital stimulation such as the above mentioned rubbing her earlobe, well her ear. I also have seen that some women can organism without any stimulation just really ‘thought’ alone. So I don’t see any problem with the OP premise happening, though it really would depend on the person. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-a-paralysed-person-to-orgasm-with-a-backrub/634486/7 "2012-09-12T17:15:04Z")
Not this one. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-a-paralysed-person-to-orgasm-with-a-backrub/634486/8 "2012-09-12T17:38:07Z")
> [@Sinisterniik](#): > > I’d try a frontrub, myself. I have dated several women who could be brought to orgasm by breast and or nipple stimulation, so I don’t see why it wouldnt be feasible. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-a-paralysed-person-to-orgasm-with-a-backrub/634486/9 "2012-09-12T17:47:10Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Not this one. Forgive my ignorance on this, but do you have orgasms at all? ---
**Author:** ![Teacake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-a-paralysed-person-to-orgasm-with-a-backrub/634486/10 "2012-09-12T20:20:10Z")
I happen to know (;)) that this is possible on a non-paralysed person, so why not? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-a-paralysed-person-to-orgasm-with-a-backrub/634486/11 "2012-09-12T20:54:25Z")
What is your definition of “back?” ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-a-paralysed-person-to-orgasm-with-a-backrub/634486/12 "2012-09-12T21:24:03Z")
Note that there is a difference between orgasm, which is triggered by the brain, which can learn to trigger it based on various physical stimuli (or even non-physical ones, like videos or books – see teenage boys for examples), and ejaculation, which is a physical event triggered by the sympathetic nervous system. ---
**Author:** ![Laudenum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-a-paralysed-person-to-orgasm-with-a-backrub/634486/13 "2012-09-12T22:25:34Z")
To clarify, this woman did not have this ability before her accident. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-a-paralysed-person-to-orgasm-with-a-backrub/634486/14 "2012-09-13T00:51:21Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Forgive my ignorance on this, but do you have orgasms at all? Oh yeah. Good ole fashioned ones, too. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![getitrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@getitrite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/getitrite)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-bring-a-paralysed-person-to-orgasm-with-a-backrub/634486/15 "2012-09-13T00:54:41Z")
The skin is one of the larger organs of the body, the brain has not been proven to be paralysed. The OP did not state the reason of paralysis. The noticed effect is not only probable but possible. and as earlier posts suggest that there are many things we do that should not have the outcomes they do, I suggest more experimentation.