Sexpert Q&A: Can Women Experience Orgasm Paralysis?
Dr. Fulbright,
Have you ever researched and written about, as I call it, “orgasm paralysis” in women? Essentially, after experiencing an orgasm, the woman’s lower extremities become numb or unmovable. My wife faces this every time we make love. It takes between half an hour and an hour before she can move somewhat normally again.
Kirk
Dear Kirk,
I have honestly never heard of this type of “orgasm paralysis” before, so I asked a few colleagues if they knew anything about this. Most had never heard of this before. Overall, everyone was in agreement that your wife should get a thorough neurological exam to find out what’s going on medically.
On another note, if you believe in the impact the body’s energy can have on us, especially during lovemaking, one thing to consider is that her kundalini energy may be at play. One’s kundalini energy, or life force energy, which rests at the base of the spine, has been known to “explode” up the spine, blowing out one of the body’s chakras, or energy centers. So she needs to work with an energy healer who can help to repair her chakra system. A fellow sex therapist worked with a woman who experienced almost complete paralysis following the “Big O.” Interestingly enough, the paralysis went away with the help of an energy healer.
Dr. Yvonne Kristín Fulbright is a sex educator, relationship expert, columnist and founder of Sexuality Source Inc. She is the author of several books including, “Touch Me There! A Hands-On Guide to Your Orgasmic Hot Spots.”
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This sounds like it could be a conversion disorder. Neurological problems should be ruled out first, but a conversion disorder is one of the most curable mental health problems out there.
Conversion disorders are one of the anxiety-based disorders. People with a conversion disorder commonly experience numbness or paralysis with no clear physical cause. What happens is that the brain “turns off” part of the body to protect the person from something that’s psychologically threatening.
In the nineteenth century, there was an epidemic of men with complete paralysis and numbness of the right hand from the wrist down. It was called “glove anesthesia.” It turned out that there’s no form of nerve damage that would specifically cause that pattern. Dueling was common, and deadly. Men with glove anesthesia had an honorable reason for avoiding duels. The sufferers’ brains were protecting them from a deadly danger by turning their right hands off.
Most modern conversion disorders don’t get someone out of deadly trouble, but they do get the person out of a situation that for some reason is really bothering them, when the reason is something they can’t face consciously.
Usually all it takes to cure a conversion disorder is a therapist helping the sufferer identify whatever’s bothering her and deal with it. If this is a conversion disorder, there may be relationship issues, uncomfortable feelings about enjoying sex, or any number of other possible issues bothering the wife.
The chakra thing is total BS. Its unfounded balderdash that hippie naturalists, and wanna be’s in Hollywood follow.
I actually get the “orgasm paralysis” every time I get an orgasm, which is not necessarily every time I have sex. I sometimes get it in my feet and sometimes my hand and even other times, though rarely, on my face. It doesn’t usually last that long though. I hadn’t ever heard of anyone discussing it either until I watched the Butterfly Effect. Take a look yourself!
Well, this does seem like a problem. Though, this whole chakra exploding through your spine thing is kind of strange and a bit a far leap that I don’t think Knieval could have made, but either way if it doesn’t turn out to be an actual neurological problem then clearly there’s some underlying issue that needs to be resolved here.
And as far as whoever it was that attacked the chakra thing, you need to be a little bit more productive rather then talking about things so hastily. Remember, the thing we call gravity was once called “balderdash” at point.