# Researching "psychic orgasms" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/researching-psychic-orgasms/16121 "2000-04-12T18:10:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/researching-psychic-orgasms/16121/81 "2000-04-16T05:25:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Now, for those of you who don’t know, I teach history at an esteemed NYC university. I can honestly say that it never, _ever_ occurred to me that somebody might be getting off on one of my exams. it wasn’t the exam itself that made it happen, but more the frustration that went along with not knowing any of the damn answers. ## that’s actually a real big trigger for me. frustration. “Organs gross me out. That’s _organs_, not orgasms.” -the wallster ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2000, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/researching-psychic-orgasms/16121/82 "2000-04-16T05:43:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by mega the roo: > \*\* it wasn’t the exam itself that made it happen, but more the frustration that went along with not knowing any of the damn answers. > > that’s actually a real big trigger for me. frustration. > > \*\* wow, so being sexually frustrated would actually cause you to have an orgasm, thereby ending your frustration? How oxymoronic! Your life must rule. ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2000, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/researching-psychic-orgasms/16121/83 "2000-04-15T20:41:00Z")
Goddammit, my interest in this is **strictly scientific**. How **dare** you suggest that I am doing this out of prurient motives? I’m a **professional**. That said, it’s interesting to consider that I get paid to do this. PS - my kids think I have the coolest job in the world. I spoke to my daughter’s third grade class last fall and I tell ya, I killed. PPS - we did not discuss psychic orgasms. However, how the astronauts go to the bathroom in space was a big hit. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2000, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/researching-psychic-orgasms/16121/84 "2000-04-15T20:43:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Coldfire: > \*\*A sexual orgasm is really purely physical to me. However, I do have an experience that I would definately describe as a mental orgasm. > > This was the time when I was allowed behind the wheel of a 1988 Ferrari Testarossa in race trim - on a race track. Going 286 km/h with a boxer 12 screaming 50 centimeters behind your back at almost 10,000 rpm… at a cockpit temperature of almost 60 degrees Celsius. > > Believe me, this comes frightingly close to sex. > > \*\* Um, yes. your humble TubaDiva Who has lotsa reasons to go the racetrack ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/researching-psychic-orgasms/16121/85 "2000-04-15T20:45:00Z")
Say, didn’t the Quakers and the Shakers both get their names from the habit of working themselves into such a religious frenzy that they literally shook? Sounds like psychic orgasm to me… ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2000, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/researching-psychic-orgasms/16121/86 "2000-04-15T23:44:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by mega the roo: > **that’s actually a real big trigger for me. frustration.** **mega** – please e-mail me a brief description of your most frustrating experience. (I gotta stop reading this thread. What if Mrs. Pluto finds out? What? Nothing honey, just reading the Straight Dope. What? Oh, somebody asked a question about octane ratings and I thought I’d help answer it. No, don’t come in! It’s just about gasoline. Don’t come in! Don’t… Oh. Hi dear. Ummm, I don’t know why the monitor turned off. Maybe it’s broken. I’ll have to take it in to get repaired. Oh, it did come right back on, didn’t it? What? Oh, I didn’t notice. Psychic orgasms, huh? What a funny name for a thread. No, I haven’t read it. It sounds kind of silly. Hey! Ukulele Ike said something funny the other day. Let me get out of this thread and I’ll… Let’s not… I don’t know why women would write stuff like that. I’m shocked! Just shocked! Oh, this is _disgusting_! Oh. I guess I had to have read it to post to it, didn’t I? No, I don’t have a _thing_ for mega the roo. What kind of a name is that anyway? I was just joking around! Honest! Say, do you want to go out to dinner tonight? Well, I don’t really _mind_ sleeping on the couch, but I don’t really like it either. Well, can I have the warm blanket? The dogs don’t either need it! Say, I was noticing the other day your car is getting a little old – maybe we could run down to the Honda dealer…? The Lexus dealer…? Ummm. Honey? Have _you_ ever had a psychic orgasm? No, I don’t know Ed Zotti’s e-mail address!) ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/researching-psychic-orgasms/16121/87 "2000-04-17T21:14:00Z")
OK, anybody else who wants to participate in our little research project here, this is your last chance. I gotta tell ya, this is really interesting. No joke. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/researching-psychic-orgasms/16121/88 "2000-04-17T22:04:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Ed Zotti: > \*\*OK, anybody else who wants to participate in our little research project here, this is your last chance. > > I gotta tell ya, this is really interesting. No joke.\*\* Ed, how much to get you to send me copies of what’s in your mailbox? I’ll start the bidding at a kidney. * * * ## Joe Cool There are no dangerous weapons. Only dangerous Men. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/researching-psychic-orgasms/16121/89 "2000-04-17T22:44:00Z")
_ahem_ Would my brother, the lurker, please hit the back button before I continue? Ed, to answer your question: yes. Like a previous poster, I have this peculiar bladder, and every now and then, having a mostly full bladder triggers spontaneous climaxes. Very interesting when you’re shopping with your boyfriend and have to stop for a moment, grip the counter and curl your toes. Or driving. Yeah, that’s kind of awkward, but I’m not complaining. Also, depending on how long a dry spell it’s been, non-genital yet still amorous skin contact will do it. Backrubs, ear nibbling, that sort of thing. _sigh_ It’s been kind of a long dry spell, with no end in sight. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/researching-psychic-orgasms/16121/90 "2000-04-17T23:44:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Coldfire: > \*\*A sexual orgasm is really purely physical to me. However, I do have an experience that I would definately describe as a mental orgasm. > > This was the time when I was allowed behind the wheel of a 1988 Ferrari Testarossa in race trim - on a race track. Going 286 km/h with a boxer 12 screaming 50 centimeters behind your back at almost 10,000 rpm… at a cockpit temperature of almost 60 degrees Celsius. > > Believe me, this comes frightingly close to sex. > > \*\* Ok, since mental orgasms seem to be acceptable as fodder for this thread… Dealing craps. Nine players on my side of the table, and the layout is designed for eight. Smallest bet on my layout is twenty-five dollars. Shooter fires up a forty-roll hand. Thousands of dollars in action on the table, everybody is press, press, pressing their bets up into the hundreds of dollars. God, what a rush. My occupation has turned me into an adrenalin junkie. * * * Now in my second month of exile in the 21 pit ---
**Author:** ![David\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/51bf81/32.png) [@David\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_B)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2000, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/researching-psychic-orgasms/16121/91 "2000-04-19T03:27:00Z")
Inky said, a few days ago: > [@](#): > > Actually, my college psychology teacher, wheelchair bound with no feeling from the waist down, claimed that he could at one time achieve orgasm from stimulation of his nipples or the stoking of fingernails down his back. Now that you mention it, I remember reading an article a few months ago about how people in that condition have sex. It said the woman (in this case the man was the one with no feeling) rubs up and down on his leg while kissing his neck. According to the article, he felt the “orgasm” on his neck in this way… Wish I remembered where I read it… I’m sure it was a legit news source or science magazine. ---
**Author:** ![SINsApple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SINsApple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SINsApple)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2000, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/researching-psychic-orgasms/16121/92 "2000-04-19T03:36:00Z")
I’m sorry, but Coldfire’s story about the Testarossa is still the hottest post in here in my opinion. (See my earlier post for the explanation.) * * * Rather, I was in the position of a spore which, having finally accepted its destiny as a fungus, still wonders if it might produce penicillin. –Ayi Kwei Armah [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/researching-psychic-orgasms/16121.md?page=4)