Top Santé offers you, with Céline Causse*, a journey through female erogenous zones. Clitoris, vagina, vulva, anus, breasts, mouth will be so many steps to discover the keys to female pleasure.
Step 1: the clitoris
It’s what ? “The clitoris is an organ, measuring 7 to 13 centimeters, located at the level of the vulva. The vast majority of it is found inside the female body. A small part of the clitoris is found outside the body, at the top of the labia minora, it’s the glans of the clitoris. The inner part of the clitoris is made up of bulbs and pillars. They are located on either side of the vagina. The bulbs surround the opening of the vagina, the pillars are a little more external. They are made of the same erectile tissue as the penis and are also very sensitive to pleasure.”
How it works ? “This is where the focus the greatest number of nerve endings dedicated to pleasure. The bulbs and pillars of the clitoris are very sensitive to pressure while the glans is much more sensitive to vibration and light touch. This is why vibrating sex toys are often used to stimulate the clitoris, whereas the inside of the clitoris, the pillars and the bulbs, are much more sensitive to pressure. It is the stimulation of the entire clitoris that allows orgasm to be obtained. This therefore requires both external stimulation which can be done manually, but also internal stimulation of the clitoris during penetration, by pressure on the vaginal walls, associated with muscular contraction of the muscles of the perineum.
Step 2: the vagina
It’s what ? “The vagina is a tube terminated at the bottom by the cervix. It extends from the entrance to the vagina, the vestibule, to the uterus. Only one area contains the pleasure receptors, this is the anterior face of the vagina, also called the G-spot. The rest of the vagina is completely insensitive”.
How it works ? “There are no pleasure receptors, neither touch nor friction, in the vagina. So a quick back and forth in a vagina will hardly stimulate any receptors. The pleasure receptors are in the wall of the vagina and are above all pressure-sensitive receptors. So it is the pressure of the penis at this precise place that will make you feel pleasure. This is also why women often choose for the Andromache. This position allows them to move back and forth with their pelvis, which causes pressure on the anterior aspect of the vagina”.
Clitoris and vaginal penetration “In addition, during sexual arousal, the internal clitoris swells and protrudes inside the vagina, at the G-spot. This allows, during penetration, to stimulate it even more, from the inside this time. The other erogenous power of the vagina is related to repletion, or being filled. The vagina has stretch and pressure sensitive receptors that are stimulated when the vagina is filled.”
Clitoris and cervix : “The stimulation of the cervix, obtained by deep penetration, is little known but also effective for orgasm. In this case, the vagus nerve is stimulated, a nerve that directs everything that is not related to the will in the human body. We get orgasms, with a much more general and deeper tone than orgasms by stimulation of the clitoris”.
A vagina that cums is an active vagina. “A passive vagina will not come. For a vagina to come, it must be active. It is important for women to know this. It is the contraction of the muscles of the perineum that will activate all the pressure receptors present in this area: both the pressure receptors in the anterior aspect of the vagina, but also those located at the level of the internal branches of the clitoris”.
Bonuses : “During vaginal penetration, the vagina takes on a bulbous shape with a tightening of the entrance and a ballooning, linked to sexual arousal, of the lower two thirds. This can give the impression to the man that the vagina is too big, but it is physiological: it becomes a receptacle for sperm to allow reproduction, it is not too big Finally, the vagina is an essentially muscular sheath which adapts to the size of the vagina. object that you put inside. So there is no vagina that is too big or too small”.
Stage 3: the vulva
An erogenous zone too often forgotten : “The vulva is made up of the labia majora, the labia minora and the mons pubis. It is all too often forgotten during sexual intercourse while it constitutes a secondary erogenous zone which helps to increase pleasure. There are corpuscles pleasure in the labia minora and labia majora. The former are sensitive to light touch and vibration. The labia majora also have pleasure receptors that are especially sensitive to pressure. The entrance to the vagina, the vestibule, is also sensitive to light touch”.
Step 4: the anus
It’s what ? “The anus is the lower end of the digestive tract. It is an erogenous zone which is experienced more and more by men or women. There are pleasure receptors at the level of the anus and we knows that the anus participates in orgasm through the involuntary contraction of the levator ani muscle”.
How it works ? “The anal orgasm exists in both women and men. It is described in women as a visceral orgasm, deeper than clitoral stimulation. This orgasm could be due either to indirect stimulation of the G-spot by pressure during penetration stimulation of the vagus nerve or direct stimulation of the cervix. But there is still too little scientific work on this question to answer it more precisely. Thanks to pleasure sensors, rimming will provide sexual arousal”.
Does anal penetration hurt? “Under no circumstances should anal penetration be painful, there is no physiological reason for that. If it hurts, it’s because the muscles are too tight, you’re not sufficiently prepared, not sufficiently excited or not relaxed enough. And if you don’t want to practice sodomy, you listen to yourself, you don’t do it.”
Step 5: breasts
It’s what ? “The breast is made of connective tissue, adipose tissue and mammary glands. Outside we find the nipple, the areola and the tubercles of Morgagni”.
Breasts and Sexual Arousal “Breasts feed the fantasies and the excitement of many men, just look at the representation of breasts in art in general. But for women, they can constitute an essential erogenous zone. In addition to an overall increase in the volume of the breast, we observe a modification of the chest under the effect of sexual arousal: the nipple hardens, the areola bulges and widens. The nipple rises, which is called erection of the breast. nipple, so the breast reacts strongly to sexual arousal.
The stimulation of the nipples and areolas cause an increase in sexual arousal, and promote access to orgasm in more than 80% of women, according to a 2006 study. In 2011, another study showed that the nipples and areolas were directly connected to the brain by a direct neural circuit, which activates the same area, at the level of the brain, as the stimulation of the clitoris. Some women can therefore have orgasms only by stimulation of the nipples. These are sensitive to pressure and pinching. The areolas and around the breast are more sensitive to light touch.
Step 6: Mouth and lips
How it works ? “The mouth is a secondary erogenous zone, the place through which all oral sexuality passes. It is an important zone for a woman’s sexuality. 91% of women have already practiced fellatio during their life according to the Ifop pour Elle survey 2019. 40% of them practice cunnilingus with their partner.In addition to the pleasure receptors which react to light touch and participate in excitement, our cultural and social construction gives lips, and in particular kisses, – sign of tenderness, attachment, complicity in a couple -, a very powerful erotic power”.
How to make these erogenous zones work and activate at the right time?
“It’s all about training. The more we stimulate the erogenous zones, the more we activate the sensory receptors, the more we sensitize them and the more we will increase their capacity to give pleasure. The training works for all the erogenous zones, primary or secondary, the clitoris, the vagina, the vulva, the anus, the mouth, the lips, the breasts, but also the nape of the neck, the inner thighs and the lobes of the thighs. ears !
Erogeneity is learned. It includes a learning phase, which can take time. Objective: succeed in activating the pleasure receptors and the neural circuits linked to these receptors so that the brain understands that the signal sent is a signal of pleasure. It is said that the woman has a fulfilled sexuality around forty, much younger men. But in men, the neural circuits are set up much earlier in life because almost all men masturbate, not women. This is why, in particular, women have a more difficult access to orgasm than men. Hence the importance of masturbation to develop, discover, and expand one’s capacity for sexual pleasure”.
* Female sexuality in all its antics, Céline Causse, 2021, ed. Fayard.
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