DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS MULTIPLE ORGASMS

 It is important to point out that whole-body orgasms are so intense that it is often hard to know where one ends and another begins. The waves of pleasure that you experience make any attempt to keep score" truly irrelevant. Hartman and Fithian’s laboratory research (see chapter 1) suggests that men (and women) can in fact have both discrete (separate) multiple orgasms and con inuous multiple orgasms. t With discrete multiple orgasms, you have a peak orgasmic experience and then the orgasm subsides, but it is then followed by another discrete orgasm. With continuous multiple orgasms, you have a peak orgasmic experience that may grow more or less intense, but you never leave the orgasmic state entirely. Hartman and Fithian recorded these two different types of orgasms by looking at heart rate, which in discrete multiple orgasms would return to its baseline figure (around seventy beats per minute) between orgasms. In continuous multiple orgasms the heart rate reached a number of peaks without returning to the baseline in between (see figure 19, page 98). Finally, these discrete and continuous orgasms can combine to make countless combinations of pleasurable peaks. The possibilities are really endless. It’s a far cry from the six-second orgasm most men have learned to settle for as the "normal" male orgasm.