Chapter XIV
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We aren't the only researchers who have considered that orgasm and ejaculation might not be one and the same. As early as 1959, contemporary American literature contained information about their separation. H. W. Secor, in an article on "The Facts about Ejaculation" in Sexology magazine, published in May of that year, wrote: ". . . although many people use the two terms interchangeably, actually the climax and ejaculation are two different processes, although they almost always accompany each other in the male."

Much of the information we have on multi-orgasmic males was gained during a series of seminars we presented throughout the United States in the mid-1970s. During that time, we came in contact with some ten thousand professionals throughout the country. Whenever we spoke, at least two or three men claimed to be multi-orgasmic—and those whom we were able to test proved they were right. A number of women also claimed to have experienced such partners.
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Recently a knowledgeable gynecologist came to us after hearing us speak and congratulated us on our documentation. He explained that he had been teaching men to be multi-orgasmic in order to improve the sex lives of the women who came to him for treatment. He felt that his work had improved the sex lives of the women he treated. His attitude was understandable. After all, his clients were women. However, we feel that women aren't the only ones who gain when a man learns to be multi-orgasmic. The man, too, discovers new depths of pleasure in an act that before occupied only a brief moment. He also has orgasms that are more intense. Surely he gains as much as the women with whom he enjoys his new power.

There was another reference, indirect, it is true, to multiple orgasms in the April 1962 issue of Sexology, in the question-and-answer section. A newlywed asked Le Mon Clark, the staff member who wrote the column, about the fact that she had several orgasms during intercourse. He replied that "... multiple orgasm is more common in a woman than it is in a man." He said no more, yet he did imply that men could have multiple orgasms. However, nothing more was said on the subject for some years, and no researcher took up the question and examined it more closely.


Kinsey

In fact, Kinsey, Pomeroy, and Martin, in their now-famous study on male sexuality, found that the average response pattern of three-quarters of American males was to ejaculate after less than two minutes of stimulation.

Kinsey and his associates also noted in their study of male sexuality that of the men studied, "... 380 have had a history of regular multiple ejaculation at some point in adolescence or in adult years." Note the use of ejaculation, rather than orgasm. Evidently, Kinsey considered the two to have the same meaning. Interestingly enough, though Kinsey referred to "multiple ejaculation" in his reference to repeated orgasms in adolescents and some adults, he still did differentiate between orgasm and ejaculation in his research. This is because he found preadolescent males, and some adult males who have had certain types of surgery, to have orgasms without ejaculation. He also discovered some males who had several orgasmic reactions before ejaculation took place. We've noted this same phenomenon in our research, as well as occasions when orgasm occurred after ejaculation.
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In spite of this research, the recognition of multiple orgasms in males is relatively new among researchers. For that matter, even the ability of women to have multiple orgasms was not considered common by Kinsey, since he noted that 14 percent of the sample he used in preparing his book Sexual Behavior in the Human Female did speak of having two or more orgasms at a time. He concluded that though some women appeared to have multiple orgasms, there was much evidence that few could do so.

If a man can have an orgasm without ejaculating, can he ejaculate without having an orgasm? Kinsey did not think so. However, we have encountered a dozen cases or so in therapy where the man complained that he ejaculated without having an orgasm, thus ending his sex session early and with no satisfaction for himself or his partner. However, we suspect that at least some of these men just did not perceive their orgasm when it occurred. In all of the cases, we were able to help the men so they did have orgasms— or learn to recognize them—when they ejaculated.

Kinsey had five cases in his research on males who practiced coitus reservatus. His summation was that: "These males experienced real orgasm, which they had no difficulty recognizing, even if it is without ejaculation." We can't be certain from his report whether these men had only one or many orgasms, nor can we be sure that he studied these men directly. It is possible that he received a report from them during an interview. Doctor Pomeroy informs us that Kinsey did do some observations, and we suspect that these cases may have been among those he actually studied.

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Masters and Johnson

Masters and Johnson, in 1966, noted that a few males under thirty years of age "repeated orgasm and ejaculation within minutes, without a long refractory period," and that this phenomenon did not occur with older males. Twelve years later, in personal correspondence. Masters stated that "... literally, we have no significant data on truly multiorgasmic males, if one is visualizing the experience in terms of the female's multi-orgasmic capacity." It is again important to note that Masters speaks of ejaculation as an intrinsic part of orgasm.

Masters and Johnson did not encounter multiple orgasmic males in their research, but that does not surprise us. They were not specifically looking for this phenomenon, as we have looked for it in our later studies. There is also the fact that recording instruments today are far more sensitive than they were in the fifties and sixties, when Masters and Johnson were doing their research.

We did discover one interesting quotation in Tannahill's Sex in History:

       "In 1976, the West caught up with the master Tunghsüan. Ten years earlier the researchers Masters and Johnson had discovered, that, in man, orgasm and ejaculation are two separate physiological processes and that it is possible to experience the pleasure of the first several times, before it need be terminated by the second."

Through personal correspondence with Masters and Johnson we learned that they knew nothing of this phenomenon because they had never researched it. We have to assume that the information came from a lecture, or that it might have come from us or some other research team, and been misinterpreted as coming from Masters and Johnson. Since we know of no other research being done on male multiple orgasm, we suspect that this quote refers to our work, not to Masters and Johnson's, but since we are not certain, we include it here.
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Masters and Johnson do refer to one subject who ejaculated three times in ten minutes. They did not report that he had any orgasms, however, though that doesn't mean one didn't occur. It is possible that this subject was multi-ejaculatory but not multi-orgasmic, or it might have occurred when he was not being monitored, and so there was no clear way to determine whether he had an orgasm.


Robbins-Jensen Study

In 1978, Mina B. Robbins and Gordon D. Jensen, in the article "Multiple Orgasm in Males" in The Journal of Sex Research, volume 14, number 1, remarked that they had noted a current phenomenon as multiple orgasms in males. Like us, these two researchers recognized that the phenomenon is multi-orgasmic, since orgasm occurs with each ejaculation and also typically without ejaculation.

Certainly we make no claim to having discovered multi-orgasms in men. All we have done is record them and identify them physiologically. The behavior itself appears to be at least four thousand years old.

In mid-1974, after we had studied a number of multiorgasmic men, Mina Robbins and Gordon Jensen took advantage of our laboratory to study a male subject who was multi-orgasmic. This gave us one more subject to add to our research. In the paper they produced on their research, they claimed that ". . . some men with spinal cord injury or other nerve lesions report a sensation of orgasm without ejaculation . . ."
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We agree with their findings. We have records to support orgasmic response in such cases. A paraplegic we studied at first had difficulty having orgasms, and the multiorgasms he had while on our machines were a new experience for him. However, several months later he reported that, since his experience in our laboratory, multiple orgasms were now a regular part of his sexual function. He has been able to utilize his own experience in his professional work with other handicapped men.

Robbins and Jensen questioned men between the ages of twenty-two and fifty-six, with the majority between thirty-three and thirty-six. The male they studied on our machines was in the upper age grouping. They found that thirteen of the men they interviewed reported orgasms without ejaculation, except for the final orgasm during a given session. This is the pattern we found among our subjects, as well.

Robbins and Jensen ". . . hypothesized that the orgasmic response and the ejaculatory response can be separate physiological reactions in a normal state ..." This we also found to be true, even in research where our subject did not fall in a "normal" category, for example, a subject with certain physical handicaps or of an age where ejaculations might not occur with each orgasm. The majority of our subjects were in good health, and some were joggers or regular exercisers.

The year that the Robbins-Jensen paper was published, Dr. Hartman presented a paper on multi-orgasmic men at the Western Psychological Association meeting in San Francisco. At the same time, a San Francisco editorial writer made caustic comments about Robbins's and Jensen's research, and considerable negative space was given to the idea of multiple orgasms in men. The editorial suggested that it was a shame that professional people wasted their time on such a crazy idea.

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Brecher—the Sex Researchers

Following the Robbins-Jensen study, Edward M. Brecher included information on multi-orgasmic males in an expanded edition of his book The Sex Researchers. Brecher had talked to us about the phenomenon, as well as to Robbins and Jensen. He stated:
       "Multi-orgasmic males reported that they had consciously learned how to curb ejaculation at orgasm. . . . During the learning process, the men had had to stop thrusting at crucial moments, or to breathe more deeply than usual, in order to control ejaculation while continuing to experience orgasm. As the learning process progressed, however, and as they experience multiple orgasms reliably over a period of months, these men reported that ?they generally needed less or no conscious effort to control ejaculation compared with their earlier experiences.?"


Other Researches

In 1948 D. O. Cauldwell published a pamphlet entitled "Sexual Athletes": "... multiple orgasms, in the strictest sense of the word, means more than one orgasm with the same erection. In a small number of cases there are males who are capable of having more than one orgasm and consequently more than one ejaculation before losing an erection." Cauldwell observed thirty males who had from six to ten orgasms. They were all preadolescent males, and there was no ejaculation in any case. In all, he examined 182 preadolescent males.

J. Jones Stewart, a gynecologist and obstetrician concerned with anorgasmia in his female patients, began working with their spouses on helping the men last longer in coitus. In the process he began to find that some of the men began reporting multiple orgasms. One of his experiments with these men involved the use of condoms to catch any ejaculate with orgasm prior to a final ejaculation. What he found was that early orgasms contained no semen, although all other visible signs of orgasm occurred and were reported by the subject. He therefore concluded, as we have, that orgasm and ejaculation were separate entities.

Unfortunately, no studies have been conducted yet on the neurochemical muscular transfer of orgasm and ejaculation. Lennart Nilsson did some remarkable studies of this kind ten years ago, but the orgasm-ejaculation phenomenon was not part of the study. When these studies are done they are expected to show that orgasm and ejaculation are two separate entities masked by their simultaneous occurrence in most men.

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