YOUR SEX MUSCLE

Your sex muscle, or pubococcygeus muscle (often simply called the PC muscle), is the muscular sling that stretches from your pubic bone in front to your tailbone in back (see figure 31), encircling your urethra, vagina, and anus. It forms a sling that supports not only your uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries, but all of your internal organs. If your PC muscle isn’t strong, you have no foundation for your organs and they can begin to sag. Most women will recognize the PC as the muscle they use to stop themselves from urinating when they can’t find a toilet. It is also the perineal muscle that must be strong and flexible to avoid tearing during childbirth. Still, the strain of childbirth can weaken your PC muscle. As Senior Healing Tao instructor and acupuncturist Dr. Angela Shen explains, “Especially after a woman has a baby, she has a tendency to get tired more easily and not to enjoy sex as much. Not all women, but many.” For these women, Sexual Kung Fu can help them regain their energy and sexual strength. The importance of the PC muscle was discovered in the West during the 1940s by Arnold Kegel, a gynecologist. He developed the famous Kegel (pronounced KAY-gul) exercises, which helped many women control their bladders and ease childbirth. Later, women began to use these exercises to increase their sexual desire, intensify their orgasms, and become multi-orgasmic. Dr. Shen points out: “All women can experience more orgasms and expand the ones they have by doing these practices."