# Sales of Tchaikovsky's music spike for Women listeners

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [May 1, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sales-of-tchaikovskys-music-spike-for-women-listeners/983428 "2023-05-01T19:47:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sales-of-tchaikovskys-music-spike-for-women-listeners/983428/1 "2023-05-01T19:47:45Z")

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Maybe men as well.

Story here: [Concertgoer Allegedly Orgasms While L.A. Philharmonic Plays Tchaikovsky’s 5th](https://www.vulture.com/2023/05/la-philharmonic-tchaikovsky-orgasm.html)

I suspect it’s this particular passage: [Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 - YouTube](https://youtu.be/JUk0WZVCnk4?t=1435)

“I’ll listen to what she’s listening to”

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**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sales-of-tchaikovskys-music-spike-for-women-listeners/983428/2 "2023-05-01T19:50:05Z")

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Hey, whatever cracks your nut…

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2023, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sales-of-tchaikovskys-music-spike-for-women-listeners/983428/3 "2023-05-01T21:11:55Z")

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I’d hold out for Mvmt 4 of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2023, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sales-of-tchaikovskys-music-spike-for-women-listeners/983428/4 "2023-05-02T00:57:15Z")

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Talk about hitting a high note… 😊

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2023, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sales-of-tchaikovskys-music-spike-for-women-listeners/983428/5 "2023-05-02T01:08:30Z")

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I always thought it was Victor Herbert.

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZztrDsOUJeI/maxresdefault.jpg "Young Frankenstein") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZztrDsOUJeI)

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**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2023, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sales-of-tchaikovskys-music-spike-for-women-listeners/983428/6 "2023-05-03T18:24:16Z")

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This is all nonsense. Everyone knows that the most orgasmic moment in the classical canon is the climax of [Mahler’s 2nd Symphony](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoZdwam7wgw). Or at least, Leonard Bernstein certainly seems to think so.

Or, somewhat literally, [Dulcissime from Carmina Burana](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFq8vH7tPxs)