# POLL: Orgasm contractions **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 26, 2002, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-orgasm-contractions/105851 "2002-04-26T20:59:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Thinks2Much](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Thinks2Much](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinks2Much)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-orgasm-contractions/105851/1 "2002-04-26T20:59:02Z")
Ever since reading this, I have been curious. [http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3\_224.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_224.html) I typically have 12 - 15 contractions per orgasm, which would put me in the 20-30 second range. (No comment on source…) Do men really only average 6 seconds? How many contractions (in the male, a release = contraction, I guess) do you dopers average? ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-orgasm-contractions/105851/2 "2002-04-26T21:30:03Z")
Oh, dear… here I go with TMI. Probably about 5 to 6 contractions. I dunno. It also depends on how long I’ve been going at it. The longer, the more contractions. - s.e. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-orgasm-contractions/105851/3 "2002-04-26T22:51:05Z")
Are we differentiating the full orgasmic contractions from the aftershocks? ---
**Author:** ![Thinks2Much](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Thinks2Much](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinks2Much)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-orgasm-contractions/105851/4 "2002-04-27T00:21:25Z")
Well, let’s say quivering doesn’t count, but a contraction that is non-producing does… ---
**Author:** ![Jpeg\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@Jpeg\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jpeg_Jones)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-orgasm-contractions/105851/5 "2002-04-27T00:25:30Z")
Org’sm ---
**Author:** ![Incubus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c68b51/32.png) [@Incubus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incubus)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-orgasm-contractions/105851/6 "2002-04-27T03:48:19Z")
3-5. Does the fact that I temporarily lose the ability to walk have any bearing on this conversation? During an episode of Loveline, Adam Corrola once commented “Women are raring to go after one romp in the sack. Guys are like a newborn lamb.” ---
**Author:** ![baltotop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@baltotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/baltotop)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-orgasm-contractions/105851/7 "2002-04-27T03:55:17Z")
5-7 by myself…10+ when im with another man …🙂 🙂 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-orgasm-contractions/105851/8 "2002-04-27T04:22:07Z")
I’ve never counted. Just a sec… Eight, but it’s been a long week and I’m kinda tired. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-orgasm-contractions/105851/9 "2002-04-27T04:29:18Z")
This sounds like an interesting topic for research; we’ll get our best men on it right away. Along these lines, I put a post in here somewhere the last couple of days about a new pharmaceutical, [Cabergolin](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1949000/1949087.stm), initially designed for Parkinsons, which may increase male stamina and the ability to have multiple orgasms. The drug works by supressing the amount of prolactine in the subject. Researchers had observed a rise in prolactine in men after orgasm and inferred that perhaps the prolactine inhibited the ability to continue with performance. In test subjects prolactine levels are reduced. They also reported a better orgasm and shorter refractory period. I do wonder how you get so sign up for these sorts of studies.