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Illicit drug abuse has direct consequences on sexual satisfaction, according to this study.

Having a few extra pounds does not have to affect our sexual relationships. Rather the opposite, according to a recent study by the University of Erciyes in Kayseri (Turkey) that affirms that abdominal fat can provide a series of benefits at the sexual level.

A team of scientists has identified for the first time the specific reasons that lead a woman to overact the sexual arousal sought by her partner.

"Inability of a woman to reach orgasm". This is how Masters and Johnson, pioneers in the investigation of the nature of the human sexual response, defined anorgasmia.

Scientists from the University of Groningen (Netherlands) have been able to identify the area of the brain in which the climax and ejaculation typical of male and female orgasm are triggered. It is a place in the brain stem known as the dorsolateral pontine tegmentum, responsible for controlling the basic functions of expulsion of body fluids such as urination.

Is vaginal orgasm different from orgasm achieved by stimulating the female clitoris? A study by Emmanuele Jannini, from the University of Aquila (Italy), has just suggested that these are two radically different orgasms. The findings are published in the 'Journal of Sexual Medicine'.

American scientists have shown that physical exercise can cause orgasms in women. In experiments with more than 350 women, ages 18 to 63, researchers found that abdominal exercises caused 51 percent of exercise-induced orgasms, followed by weight lifting (26.5%), the yoga (20%), cycling (15.8%), running (13.2%) and walking (9.6%).

This is the question that neuroscientist Barry Komisaruk of Rutgers University (USA) has been asking for some years. According to the account in the latest issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, in his latest study to find out, he placed 11 women of different ages in a nuclear magnetic resonance scan and invited them to self-stimulate the cervix, clitoris, vagina and nipples separately by hand or with a vibrator. Brain imaging revealed that there was an increase in different areas of the sensory cortex in the first three cases.