Activating the body’s muscles to heighten pleasure
Explore these particularly pleasurable strategies women have discovered to squeeze muscles that can give control over pleasure and orgasm, alone and with partners. And from early reports, these techniques work for the fellas, too!
You know how, during orgasm, the muscles around the genitals and butthole contract and release in pulses? It’s actually a two-way street: not only can pleasure and orgasm make muscles pulse, women can contract muscles on purpose to make an orgasm start happening. Not only that, but 56% of women use muscle-flexing strategies not for initiating orgasm but to make sexual pleasure more intense.
It’s almost as if the body feels the voluntary clenching and thinks, ‘hey, contractions! I know what’s happening! We’re orgasming!’
“It’s a way I push myself over the edge - kind of by starting the orgasm process with those squeezes.”
24% of women use their muscles to make orgasms last longer! A popular way is to keep the orgasm contractions energetic by voluntarily squeezing along with each one. So just after the orgasm peaks, when there’s a contraction, you add some fuel to it by squeezing even more. Then squeeze again when the next one’s arriving, and so on.
“Some of my orgasms peak and then get less intense really fast. But when I squeeze my ass and stomach, I can make it go on longer.”
“My best friend taught me how to keep an orgasm pulsing and feeling strong for an extra 5 seconds or so just by tensing my pelvis muscles.”
“Some of my orgasms peak and then get less intense really fast. But when I squeeze my ass and stomach, I can make it go on longer.”
“My best friend taught me how to keep an orgasm pulsing and feeling strong for an extra 5 seconds or so just by tensing my pelvis muscles.”
This is holding the clench until you can’t anymore. The muscle eventually starts to shake as it grows tired. It’s the I-almost-can’t-keep-doing-this-but-oh-my-god-I’m-trying feeling that gets so pleasurable. Then, just as orgasm passes through the body, you let the muscles go into full relaxation.
“To get a bigger orgasm during sex, I hold my thighs and vagina super tense and I don’t release till I’m coming.”
Some women do these flexing techniques with their thighs, their entire legs, their ab muscles, butthole muscles, or buttocks. And lots of women flex specific muscles in their crotch. At first, crotch muscles can feel like one big unit that all squeezes at once. But with some practice, these individual muscles can be pinpointed and controlled separately:
The PC muscles are the ones you feel if you’re trying to hold in a big fart, not right at the butthole but deeper inside. You may have seen this actor in hits like, ‘I really have to poop and I’m gonna be on this bus for a long time so need the poop to go up and back where it came from.’ These muscles feel like they’re lower down, toward the butthole. But they also go deep INSIDE along the vaginal canal—and you can intentionally squeeze the inside parts by imagining an elevator moving upward from your entrance to the deepest parts of your vagina.
The BC muscles are the ones you feel if you’re trying to hold back pee. It’s harder to squeeze these ones and not the PC muscles at the same time but it’s worth learning how. These muscles are behind the labia and are partly responsible for the clitoris getting hard and for orgasm contractions.
“When I cross my ankles and flex my thigh muscles in sequence with the thrusts, that’s how I have clitoral orgasms during sex.”
“Squeezing my butt muscles increases the richness of my orgasm. I'll squeeze at the very end when I'm about to orgasm and sometimes I'll do it in rhythm with whatever thrusting is happening.”
“Using my muscles gives me a feeling like I’m guiding what I’m feeling during sex and I get a kind of control over when I orgasm.”
“I discovered muscle tensing accidentally when we were having sex in a small area and I had to hold myself in an unusual position.”
“When I cross my ankles and flex my thigh muscles in sequence with the thrusts, that’s how I have clitoral orgasms during sex.”
“Squeezing my butt muscles increases the richness of my orgasm. I'll squeeze at the very end when I'm about to orgasm and sometimes I'll do it in rhythm with whatever thrusting is happening.”
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