Sexuality

"Huh? Why do you have these manga, sensei?" "No, those aren't-" "Isnt this series notorious for being banned because of how it creates sex criminals?" "No, listen, I'm not into that stuff..." "Sensei, all this time I thought you were a simple lolicon...but I never thought you were a full-blown pedocon!" "Hey, I'm not a pedocon! I've never opened any of those books!" "Don't lie... all these manga have heavy-reading grudge stains!" "Look, a dumb college buddy sent me those as parting gifts. I couldn't throw them out, but I..." "You were friends with a fellow pedocon back home?" "That's how you see it?" "You married that girl after you knocked her up when she was 16. But this could mean you actually started violating that girl when she was only 15, 14, 13, or even younger than that..." "NGH! Believe me, I'm not a lolicon! And I'm no pedo..." "Make me believe!"

"Loli, fierce eyes, not friendly."

"CD Projekt Red first got the character design for Rebecca and they were like 'She's a loli. Lolis don't exist in Night City. It doesn't fit the Cyberpunk 2077 aesthetic'. But Trigger was like 'No, the loli must stay.'"

"I'm actually quite shocked, too. This country is full of lolicons. I can understand finding little girls cute, but... you people take it too far."

"I used to struggle when I'm drawing Saitama, as for now I'd say Tatsumaki. I'm not good in drawing loli, I like drawing thicc figures."

"Kazuma Satou: "I almost got branded a lolicon." Megumin: [cracking her knuckles] "Why don't you explain exactly why getting into the bath with me makes you a lolicon?""

"Various priests: "It's a loli! .. Our order has been blessed with a loli! .. Look how loli-licious she is! .. LoliLoli!" Megumin "The next person to say "loli" is going to catch these hands!" Priest "God, she a is a LOLI loli""

"Megumin: "I will be fourteen next month." Kazuma Satou: "Wait, fourteen? Seriously? You're not gonna be a loli character anymore?" Megumin: "A loli character!?" Kazuma Satou: "Oof...I was this close to becoming a certified lolicon for real..." Megumin: "Why don't you tell me how bathing with me certifies you as a lolicon?""

"Lolicon? Asuna-san, as a member of the medical practice, that's a term you must never use .. pedophilia should be distinguished from the vague concept commonly referred to as "lolicon"."

"Goth-Loli Shoujo!"

"“We’ve been using MMPI for the past five years,” Shukan Bunshun hears from an unnamed school board executive in an unnamed prefecture. “It’s possible, certainly, that Lolicons or people with other questionable sexual tendencies will find ways to hide that. On the other hand, we have noticed that, compared with prefectures that don’t use MMPI, our episodes of obscene behavior have decreased – to zero, in fact, over the past couple of years.” From another school board official in another prefecture Shukan Bunshun hears this story: A young applicant came across to examiners as very impressive. His written test results were tops. In interviews he conveyed fluently and convincingly his ideas concerning education. And yet there was something ever so slightly odd about him. He seemed, at times, to be looking about him furtively and uneasily. Perhaps it meant nothing. On the other hand, you can’t be too careful where children are concerned. The board sent the applicant’s MMPI to a qualified counselor for expert scrutiny. Sure enough, the expert detected Lolicon tendencies. The man was not hired. Score one victory for children and one defeat for sexual predation – right? But was the man really Lolicon? Tests are indicative, not infallible. What if he wasn’t? Whose victory is it then?"

"the worst!! lolicon!!"

"LOの担当さんから打ち合わせの時、 「このキャラ９歳にしてはちょっと幼く見えますね」と言われる。 じゃあ設定を変えて８歳ということにしますかと答えたら、 「LOの読者層が求めているのは９歳で、８歳は幼すぎる。絵の方を変えて！」と言われる。 LOのこだわりはこの次元なのだ。 When I was making arrangements with my boss: "These characters look a little young for 9." When I suggested making them 8 instead: "LO's readers want 9-year-olds, 8 is too young. Change the picture instead!" This is the level of fine-tuning at LO."

"saitee!! rorikon!!"

"I'm not a lolicon, I prefer a plump figure, matured lady, so I'd say Fubuki...But the Fubuki from ONE sensei version is not plump at all...This version of Fubuki is fully based on my own liking and preferences. I love boobs since I was young, and the back, waist and the butt, I'm having fun time drawing them! Tastumaki is not my cup of tea, but turns out that I'm having fun drawing her as well! .. Previously I never draw any loli-like character, when I'm drawing Tastumaki I spent many effort on drawing the ass."

"どうすれば、才色兼備な30女をつかまえられるのか－－という趣旨の記事だった。 世界でも希有な ロリコン 優勢の日本社会において、（30女的には）ありがたい内容。 Dōsureba, saishokukenbina 30 on'na o tsukamae rareru no ka -- to iu shushi no kijidatta. Sekai demo keuna rorikon yūsei no Nihon shakai ni oite, (30 on'na-teki ni wa) arigatai naiyō. The article was about how to catch a smart and beautiful 30-year-old woman. In Japan, where lolicons are the most prevalent in society, it was a welcome read (for a 30-year-old woman)."

"全てのオタク・萌え・非モテを中心に、コスプレイヤー、メイドさん、ニート、引きこもり、 ロリコン、 ショタコン、 腐女子、 腐男子、 ゲイ、 ビアン、 性的マイノリティー、 貧乏人、 ワーキングプア層、 苦学生、よっぱらい、 その他諸々の大バカモノと少数者はもはや結集するしかない！ Subete no otaku moe hi mote o chūshin ni, kosupureiyā, meido-san, nīto, hiki komori, rorikon, shotakon, fujoshi, fudanshi, gei, bian,-sei-teki mainoritī, binbōnin, wākingupua-sō,-ku gakusei, yopparai, sonota moromoro no dai baka mono to shōsū-sha wa mohaya kesshū suru shika nai! All otaku, moe, and non-popular people, as well as cosplayers, maids, NEETs, hikikomori, lolicons, shotacons, fujoshi and fudanshi, gays, lesbians, sexual minorities, poor people, the working poor, struggling students, drunks, and all other kinds of idiots and minorities, have no choice but to unite!"

"A lolita magician! Score!! Hmm... "Roxy," huh? Loli, scornful eyes, blunt. How perfect."

"Takechi: "I can't kill her. Killing a little girl... is not the samurai way. Capture her alive." Matako "Senpai!! You're such a lolicon!! She broke in here, we can't be so soft!" "I'm not a lolicon, I'm a feminist. I must be considerate towards female enemies. Such is the path of the feminist.""

"It's because the technology for immortality was accidentally made during your experiments to create a lolicon's world. You froze the appearance of every woman in the world at age twelve."

"Kuki-chan, the truth is... I am a lolicon! I am a lolicon. A true lolicon. My strike zone for women lies between seven and twelve years old. In other words... Anyone works for me. Even you... Lolicon is not a disease! It is a way of life! Even I realize that I'm a pervert! But all the same, Chifuyu-chan was willing to accept me. Just being able to play with Chifuyu-chan satisfies me!"

"You damn lolicon!"

"She's famous among the five million members of the Nationwide Lolicon Network. The Network has awarded her with the best little girl of 2005 award!"

"★ ハイ . コン ( ヘイジ コンプレックス ) 5~10 ★ アリ . コン ( アリス コンプレックス ) 7~12 ★ ロリ . コン ( ロリータ コンプレックス ) 10~15​ (English translation below) Hei-Con (Heidi Complex) 5-10 Ari-Con (Arisu Complex) 7-12 Rori-Con (Rorita Complex) 10-15"

"ロリコン 男の罠にかかったと見せかけた少女ヘイリーの正体も明かされないまま、男の自宅という密室状態で繰り広げられる1対1の攻防はスリリング。 Rorikon otoko no wana ni kakatta to misekaketa shōjo heirī no shōtai mo akasa renai mama, otoko no jitaku to iu misshitsu jōtai de kurihiroge rareru 1 tai 1 no kōbō wa suriringu. The true identity of Haley, the girl who appears to have fallen into the lolicon man's trap, is never revealed, and the one-on-one battle that unfolds in the closed space of the man's home is thrilling. .. ロリコン 男への制裁というひとネタだけで一気にラストまで突き進める脚本にも、洗練されたビジュアルセンスを見せる演出＆編集にも才気が溢れているのだが、本作の大きな魅力はヘイリー役のエレン・ペイジ。 Rorikon otoko e no seisai to iu hito neta dake de ikkini rasuto made tsukisusumeru kyakuhon ni mo, senrensareta bijuarusensu o miseru enshutsu& henshū ni mo saiki ga afurete iru nodaga, honsaku no ōkina miryoku wa heirī-yaku no eren peiji. The script, which drives the film to the end with just the one plot twist of punishing a lolicon man, and the direction and editing, which show off a sophisticated visual sense, are full of talent, but the biggest draw of this film is Ellen Page in the role of Haley."

"サイテー！！ロリコン！！"

"Me, I'm not interested in small little loli, really, hahaha, sorry I lied, I like her very much. I have the original Zenko version here, she looks older. This is the version that I decided not to use, she looks older right? I'm not good in drawing little girls, I'm always drawing it too tall in the first place, even for Tatsumaki."

"lolicon aren't people... they're beasts......"

"Recent work with real-time fMRI, in conjunction with compatible EEG/MEG, shows promise in allowing us to observe the brain at work (or play). Perhaps this method, in conjunction with effective connectivity data analysis techniques, will permit us to unravel the continuing mysteries of the orgasm sequence. How the various brain regions influence each other, activating and inhibiting one another, to produce the pleasures leading up to and including orgasm may well have applications beyond the bedroom. This method has already been therapeutically applied as a tool for neuro biofeedback, with the goal to increase activity in the left amygdala (Zotev et al., 2014) and insula (Veit et al., 2012), which has been associated with enhanced mood regulation and reduced symptoms of anxiety and depression. It is possible that by studying people who are virtuosos in regulation of their pleasure systems, such as the easily orgasmic women in our study who activated their genital sensory cortex simply by “imagining” genital stimulation, or the population of women who can literally “think” themselves into orgasm, previously studied by our group(Whipple et al, 1992), we will learn more effective strategies for helping mood-challenged individuals exercise the brain’s capacity for self-regulation."

"Overall, our findings lead us to conclude that women’s orgasm is a major neurological event, involving widespread activity in many regions of the brain. Future effective connectivity studies should help elucidate how the activity of these regions develops and is integrated over the course of stimulation, orgasm, and recovery in the totality of the orgasm sequence."

"The findings presented in this dissertation suggest that the brain is capable of responding robustly to both physical “touch” and mental “imagined” stimulation. As physical genital stimulation builds up and culminates in the major neurological event of orgasm, many brain regions implicated in sensory, motor, cognitive, and reward processes are recruited along the way. How these regions interact to create the complex phenomenological experiences of sexual arousal and orgasm are yet to be fully understood. Fortunately, we are at the brink of advances in methodology that will facilitate our ability to address this, and other questions, raised by this dissertation."

"Based upon the results of the various analyses of the transition from the later stimulation through orgasm, we conclude that “going over” into orgasm involves a complex interaction between sensory integration, motor, reward, and cognitive region, involving the autonomic nervous system. The evidence of activation of brain regions that control both sympathetic and parasympathetic activity at orgasm in this study of women suggests that, similar to the dual activation involved in orgasm in men (penile erection: parasympathetic function; ejaculation: sympathetic), both divisions of the autonomic nervous system contribute to the process of orgasm in women."

"Our laboratory, the Komisaruk group, has consistently found widespread, regional brain activation leading up to and peaking at orgasm, including frontal and temporal brain regions, while conversely, the Georgiadis group report diametrically opposite results in which the frontal cortex—specifically the right medial orbitofrontal, left lateral orbifrontal, and left dorsolateral cortices—and right amygdala were deactivated during orgasm. And also in contrast with our findings of widespread activation during orgasm, the Dutch group has reported finding reliable orgasm-related activation only in the cerebellum (Georgiadis et al., 2006), and more recently, the pons (Huynhet al., 2013)"

"What happens in the brain that initiates and orchestrates the “going over” from stimulation to orgasm? This is of interest for clinical applications for individuals suffering from the inability to experience an orgasm. We attempted to elucidate this by comparing the stimulation period that immediately precedes the onset of orgasm with that at the onset of orgasm."

"This experiment occurred during the context of an orgasm study. All participants described themselves as being “consistently highly orgasmic” during study enrollment. As there has been support in the literature for a correlation between orgasm reliability and higher hypnotic suggestibility(Bridges, et al., 1985), and imagery ability (Harris et al., 1980), the degree of suggestibility of these participants may potentially have biased the results toward more robust imagery activations than expected. This may have contributed to the lack of robustness of the brain response to the physical stimulation conditions by having the explicit modeling be too suggestive of the actual physical stimulation."

"Georgiadis argues that the OFC may be the basis of sexual control – and perhaps only by letting go, so to speak, can orgasm be achieved. He suggests this deactivation may be the most telling example of an “altered state of consciousness” and one not seen, as yet, during any other type of activity. “I don’t think orgasm turns off consciousness but it changes it,” he says. “When you ask people how they perceive their orgasm, they describe a feeling of a loss of control.” Georgiadis suggests that perhaps orgasm offsets systems that usually dominate attention and behaviour. “I’m not sure if this altered state is necessary to achieve more pleasure or is just some side effect,” he says. It is possible that the inability to let go and reach this altered state may be what prohibits individuals with anorgasmia from reaching climax."

"The orgasm is a strong analgesic. With brain-activation studies of orgasm showing unique patterns of activation in regions implicated in attention, self-awareness and consciousness, researchers believe its study may also help with the control of pain. “Orgasm is a special case of consciousness,” says Barry Komisaruk at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. “If we can look at different ways of inducing orgasm, we may better understand how we can use top-down processing to control what we physically feel.”"

"“This kind of research is incredibly useful,” says Heiman. “Orgasm is tied into the brain’s reward system and likely other important systems as well. There is much we can learn about the brain, about sensation, about how pleasure works and probably much more from this one physical response.”"

"As predicted, the results showed clear evidence that many brain regions were differentially activated during the course of genital stimulation leading up to and culminating in orgasm in these women. These activations include sensory, motor, reward, frontal cortical and brainstem regions, i.e., the genital sensory cortex (paracentral lobule), secondary somatosensory cortex (operculum SII, regions OP1 and OP4), precuneus, inferior parietal lobule, insula, hippocampus, amygdala, cerebellum, supplementary motor area, dorsal and ventral striatum (caudate, putamen, and nucleus accumbens), substantia nigra, the mesolimbic dopamine system (ventral tegmentum), hypothalamus, pons, anterior and posterior cingulate cortex, temporal pole, and the prefrontal cortex."

"The female orgasm is a variable, transient peak sensation of intense pleasure, creating an altered state of consciousness, usually with an initiation accompanied by involuntary, rhythmic contractions of the pelvic striated circumvaginal musculature, often with concomitant uterine and anal contractions, that resolves the sexually induced vasocongestion and myotonia, generally with an induction of well-being and contentment. Findings from surveys and clinical reports suggest that orgasm problems are the first or second most frequently reported sexual problems in women. Between 11 and 60% of adult women suffer from lack of orgasm, depending on factors such as culture and religion. On an individual level, self-insight and a positive attitude towards one’s own genitals and sexuality are important. Female anorgasmia is a significant sexual problem. The woman who lacks orgasm often also lacks desire and joy of sexuality, has low self-esteem, often feels like a sexual failure, and feels sexually wrong and ashamed of herself for not being the “woman she was meant to be”. Perceptions of not being fully able to satisfy her partner sexually are normal and quality of life is often low. The problem of female anorgasmia, from a psychodynamic perspective, often goes back to the parental lack of acceptance of the patient’s genitals, body, and sexuality, often leading to intense feelings of shame and guilt, which seem to be repressed by a denial of physical and sexual needs, and accumulate in the pelvic and genital area. Sexual abuse and sexual traumas from rape and incest often cause lack of orgasm. If self-esteem is low, it is our clinical observation that there can be lack of orgasm from the simple psychological reason that the patient feels she does not deserve such pleasure, or does not know how to get it. It is very likely that anorgasmia is a socially inherited sexual dysfunction, but this has never been investigated scientifically. It is generally believed that anorgasmia, as most other sexual dysfunctions, is caused by a disturbed psychosexual development."

"The female patients in holistic existential therapy and holistic sexology with life-long anorgasmia often find their situation pretty hopeless; many of them have been dysfunctional and incurable for many years or they suffer from conditions for which there has been no efficient biomedical or psychotherapeutical cure. They suffer from a condition that is a serious burden to their marital life, if they have a husband; often the problem makes them unable to find or keep a partner. Often the problem of anorgasmia is caused by traumas from earlier sexual abuse, which needs more effective and direct tools for the induction of healing (salutogenesis)."

"The objective of this study was to test the Betty Dodson method of breaking the female orgasm barrier in chronic anorgasmic women. The aim was sexual and existential healing (salutogenesis) through direct confrontation and integration of both the repressed shame, guilt, and other negative feelings associated with body, genitals, and sexuality, and the repressed sexual pleasure and desire. We conducted a retrospective analysis of clinic data from holistic sexological manual therapeutic intervention, an intensive subtype of clinical holistic medicine (CHM). The patients received 3 × 5 h of group therapy, integrating short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (STPP) and complementary medicine (CAM bodywork, manual sexology similar to the “sexological examination”). The therapy used the advanced tools of reparenting, genital acceptance, acceptance through touch, and direct sexual clitoral stimulation. A clitoral vibrator was used. Participants were 500 female patients between 18 and 88 years of age (mean of 35 years) with chronic anorgasmia (for 12 years on average) who were participating in the “orgasm course for anorgasmic women”; 25% of the patients had never experienced an orgasm. Our results show that 465 patients (93%) had an orgasm during therapy, witnessed by the therapist, and 35 patients (7%) did not. Postmenopausal women were as able to achieve orgasm as fertile women, as were women who never had an orgasm. No patients had detectable negative side effects or adverse effects. NNT: 1.04 < NNT < 1.12, NNH > 500. Therapeutic value: TV = NNH/NNT > 446. Our conclusions are that holistic sexological manual therapy may be rational, safe, ethical, and efficient."

"“Possibly about a third of civilized women get their climax externally [clitorally]; perhaps another third achieve it mainly in the vaginal passage, and another third achieve it seldom or never. Of women who can reach it from either area it is found that the inner climax is generally-but not quite always-the one most valued. It is held by psychiatrists that the emotional content of the two types of orgasm is different. Most women will confirm this, though there can be no question of the significance being identical for everybody.’’ This revealed considerable problems. According to Malleson, two-thirds of women were not achieving the vaginal orgasms held to be most desirable by Freud, by most sex manual authors, and frequently by women themselves. Less specifically, Helena Wright, who saw London women through her private medical practice and Family Planning clinics, wrote in 1947 that she had kept careful records of her patients’ experiences since 1928, and that ‘sexual satisfaction is not obtained by more than 50 per cent of married women’. Unsurprisingly Macaulay, who advised women to lower their expectations, was more sanguine about female sexual pleasure: ‘The answers I have received on questioning my patients about their sexual life are in complete contrast to the somewhat gloomy figures published by other writers.’ In her second sex manual, published in 1947, Wright commented that ‘Fifteen years ago most workers along this line thought that the main problem [for women] was ignorance.’ This, Wright felt, had changed, revealing another problem, which was that both men and women expected female sexual response to conform to a male pattern: [Men] discover very early in their sexual experience that…a comparatively short time of rhythmic movements of the penis in the vagina produces an orgasm and ejaculation easily and completely…men, therefore, expect that…"

"Masters and Johnson’s major conclusion was that there was only one female orgasm and that it originated in the clitoris regardless of where it was felt. This was in spite of their description of the vaginal response to erotic stimulation, explained here by the Breechers: ‘’The vagina too, responds. It can be thought of as a cylinder or ‘barrel’, which remains in a collapsed state in the absence of erotic stimulation. The Masters-Johnson studies have established that the outer third of this barrel reacts in one way and the inner two-thirds in a very different way during the successive phases of sexual response. As sexual tension mounts during the excitement phase… [t]he cervix and the uterus are pulled back and up…producing a ‘tenting’ of the vaginal walls surrounding the cervix. The net result of these and other changes is a dramatic ‘ballooning’ of the inner two thirds of the vagina. The diameter at the widest point of the ballooning may be three times the diameter of the erotically unstimulated vagina; and the total length of the vaginal barrel may be increased as much as a full inch.’’ Given this physical response the vagina cannot be described as inactive or even passive. However, Masters, and Johnson assumed this to be the case, and their findings focused on what they called clitorical orgasms. The female research subjects were chosen on the basis of their capacity to produce orgasms in the laboratory while under observation. Regarding these women, Masters and Johnson found that as ‘contrasted with the male’s usual inability to have more than one orgasm in a short period, many females, especially when clitorally stimulated can regularly have five or six full orgasms within a matter of minutes’. In this context, with these female subjects, it was found that the most intense orgasms on a physiological level occurred as a result of masturbation, not while engaging in penile-vaginal intercourse. In response to these findings, Dr Mary Jane Sherfey, an American psychoanalyst, concluded in 1966 that ‘biology gives to women an inordinate sexual drive and capacity which had to be suppressed in the interests of maternal responsibility and male property rights with the rise of modern civilisation’."

"[T]here were reasons for the acceptance of vaginal orgasm by female manual authors. The strong resistance to masturbatory activities reveals that such women were not internalizing a new prohibition in rejecting clitoral stimulation but extending an existing one. Manuals by women (and the evidence on behavior) also suggest that English women were generally less comfortable with varied sexual practices that were men. For many married women of this generation their sexual aspirations lay in a different direction. Although the theme had been present in the manuals throughout the inter-war period, the 1950s saw the peak of the insistence on vaginal orgasm for women and the peak of the glorification of sexual intercourse as a transcendent, shared emotional experience for the couple. Authors used phrases such as “their spirits as well as their bodies seem to rise together to a flame of ecstasy which is quite indescribable’ or ‘total emotional surrender’. Definitions of marital sexual pleasure incorporated emotion. In ‘’The Golden Notebook’’ (1962) the Rhodesian-born novelist Doris Lessing (b. 1919) made a frequently quoted, classic statement of support for the vaginal orgasm. She wrote that a ‘vaginal orgasm is emotion and nothing else, felt as emotion and expressed in sensation that are indistinguishable from emotion’. In her 1995 autobiography she also commented that ‘when I masturbated in my adolescence it was the vagina and its amazing possibilities I learned about. The clitoris was only part of the whole ensemble.’ In the 1950s, there were many articulate middle-class women who agreed with Doris Lessing and her perception of female sexual experience. They experienced coitus and vaginal orgasm as an emotional experience and they wanted men to participate emotionally also. Men had to alter their attitude to marital sexuality if they were to accommodate this demand, as a shared emotional experience was incompatible with the exercise of conjugal rights. Thus, in a context where male initiation and management of physical sexual activity was still the norm, the vaginal orgasm involved a further step toward the destruction of the double standard."

"In this study, 500 female patients with often lifelong anorgasmia received direct sexual stimulation of the clitoris during the therapy and 93% of the patients experienced that the procedure solved their problem. The success of this study gives us one more very important tool for holistic medicine. Together with the other tools of holistic manual therapy, such as acceptance through touch and acupressure through the vagina, we now have tools for solving problems related to female sexual dysfunction. We therefore conclude that direct sexual stimulation can be a safe and efficient procedure, and an important new tool in the holistic medical toolbox."

"Preliminary work has revealed that only about 7% of women always have orgasms with sex alone, he says, while 27% say they never do. The current research hold-up: developing a reliable, at-home technique for measuring C-V distance, especially one that can deal with stretchy skin. Women with a large C-V distance should not be discouraged, Wallen says. "Personally, I don't think the inability to experience no-hands, penis-only intercourse with orgasm says anything about a happy sex life," he says. "Maybe it could allow couples to be a bit more inventive in how they have sex.""

"By the time you actually experience an orgasm, "more than 30 major brain systems are activated," Komisaruk says. "It's not a local, discrete event. There's no 'orgasm center.' It's everywhere.""

"It has generally been assumed that a male's experience of orgasm is different from a female's experience of orgasm. In this study, a questionnaire consisting of 48 description of orgasm (24 male and 24 female) was submitted to 70 judges. These professionals (obstetrician-gynecologists, psychologists and medical students) were to sex-identify the description to discover whether sex differences could be detected. The judges could not correctly identify the sex of the person describing an orgasm. Furthermore, none of the three professional groups represented in the sample of judges did better than any of the other groups. Male judges did no better than female judges and vice versa. These findings suggest that the experience of orgasm for males and females is essentially the same."

"In 2 studies with 10 women each, vaginal self-stimulation significantly increased the threshold to detect and tolerate painful finger compression, but did not significantly affect the threshold to detect innocuous tactile stimulation. The vaginal self-stimulation was applied with a specially designed pressure transducer assembly to produce a report of pressure or pleasure. In the first study, 6 of the women perceived the vaginal stimulation as producing pleasure. During that condition, the pain tolerance threshold increased significantly by 36.8% and the pain detection threshold increased significantly by 53%. A second study utilized other types of stimuli. Vaginal self-stimulation perceived as pressure significantly increased the pain tolerance threshold by 40.3% and the pain detection threshold by 47.4%. In the second study, when the vaginal stimulation was self-applied in a manner that produced orgasm, the pain tolerance threshold and pain detection threshold increased significantly by 74.6% and 106.7% respectively, while the tactile threshold remained unaffected. A variety of control conditions, including various types of distraction, did not significantly elevate pain or tactile thresholds. We conclude that in women, vaginal self-stimulation decreases pain sensitivity, but does not affect tactile sensitivity. This effect is apparently not due to painful or non-painful distraction."