Orgasm is a profoundly rewarding release of accumulated sexual excitement and tension and is generated after a requisite amount of somatosensory sexual stimulation has been achieved. It is referred to colloquially as ‘climax’ or...

Orgasm is the climax of sexual pleasure (coming, ecstasy), from Greek orgao, ‘swell, radiate with desire’. Masters andjohnson established a four-phase cycle of human sexual response: excitement, plateau, orgasm and resolution. During...

An orgasm (sexual climax) is the conclusion of the plateau phase of the sexual response cycle, and may be experienced by both males and females. Orgasm is characterized by intense physical pleasure, controlled by the involuntary, or autonomic, nervous...