Appendix A
The Unprecedented Research Study from Rutgers University
Summary of All Previous Studies
by True Male Multiorgasmic Response [http://www.multiorgasmic.com]
and
Keenton Chiang. The Truth About Male Multiple Orgasms [http://keenforgod.wordpress.com, May 10, 2004]


"Although there have been reports of multiple orgasms in males, there is some question as to whether or not they are complete orgasms or a resumption of an interrupted orgasm just before the 'Moment of Inevitability.'" ["Encyclopedia of Sex", Westheimer, R., 1994, p. 194]

Dr. Westheimer is correct to question the validity of reported "multiple orgasms in males" prior to this Rutgers Study. As unanimously concluded by all previous research studies, "complete orgasms" were not experienced by any of the males therein. There is not a single specifically documented case of such a male sexual capacity to be found anywhere in recorded history, except as alluded to in ancient Sumerian accounts.

Unbelievably, while present scientific research continues to make incredible breakthroughs on many fronts, the Male Refractory Period (MRP) and its causes have never been targeted for research. Prior to this 1995 Rutgers study, only five previous scientific studies had ever been conducted on male "multiple orgasm." None of these studies documented or claimed to document natural male multiple orgasm. In each case, ejaculatory control techniques were used to keep the Male Refractory Period (MRP) from occurring. All previous studies have only observed male sexual response and documented the sexual response of males who have learned these ejaculatory-control techniques anciently.

While terming these males "multiorgasmic," each of these studies makes it quite clear that these males are not capable of experiencing natural multiple orgasms, as do females. Thus, they are not truly multiorgasmic. These males possess the same limited sexual physiologies as do all other males.

The following provides a brief summary of the circumstances and findings of each of the previous studies:
Kinsey (1948)
Masters & Johnson (& Kolodny) (1966, 1986)
Robbins & Jensen (1978)
Hartman & Fithian (1984)
Kothari (1989)
... and what of pleasure?

Kinsey and Masters & Johnson (1966, 1986)

Kinsey and Masters & Johnson were among the first in this country to scientifically observe and document human sexual response. In the course of their observation of over 100,000 orgasms, both commented at length on their observations of both female and male orgasms. Masters & Johnson reported their observations of male orgasmic capacity as it compared to that of the females in their studies and concluded as follows:

"…Men, on the other hand, are not able to have multiple orgasm if it is defined in the same way. Immediately after ejaculation, the male enters a refractory period; a partial or full erection may be maintained during this refractory period, but usually the erection subsides quickly." [Masters, Johnson, Kolodny (On Sex and Human Loving, 1986)]

Here, Masters, Johnson & Kolodny speak of ejaculation as that which occurs naturally — uninhibited by voluntary techniques.

As scientists and documenters of human sexuality in general, it was never Masters & Johnson’s focus or intention to study the phenomenon of male multiple orgasms in detail. Their purpose was to document and study human sexual response as occurs naturally in human sexual physiology.

And after objectively observing tens of thousands of male orgasms, they accurately defined natural male orgasm as naturally including ejaculation. Were ejaculation not a natural part of male orgasm, cognitive techniques would not be required to keep it from occurring.

While many have attempted to discredit Masters & Johnson's definition of "male orgasm" as including ejaculation, yet the fact remains that ejaculation is a naturally inseparable part of male orgasm. This being the case, as ethical researchers Masters & Johnson could only define "male orgasm" as it naturally exists (i.e. without the use of cognitive techniques that interfere with natural psycho-physiologic sexual response processes and force the unnatural termination of the ejaculatory phase of male orgasm).

Robbins & Jensen (1978)

In the late seventies, Robbins & Jensen sought out males claiming to be multiorgasmic and observed them in the laboratory. Of these participants, they remarked the following:

"...these men apparently inhibit or control ejaculation and thereby withhold it until the final orgasm of a series, which they describe subjectively as being the most intense..." [M. Robbins, G. Jensen; "Multiple Orgasm in Males" Journal of Sex Research, vol. 14, no. 1; 1978]

Robbins & Jensen found that multiorgasmic males had learned to use certain "techniques" to voluntarily separate orgasm and ejaculation so as to avoid the onset of the male refractory period which usually accompanies natural ejaculation.

Hartman & Fithian (1984)

A few years later, Hartman & Fithian succeeded in documenting the methodologies employed by the Robbins & Jensen Subjects and wrote a book teaching these same techniques. In short, men are taught to voluntarily employ contractions of the pubococcygeus muscles in interrupting the ejaculatory process following orgasm. Their conclusions on multiorgasmic males concur with and support those made by all other previous studies:

"…we determined that most multi-orgasmic men do not have what might be termed a ‘full ejaculation’ until they have experienced a number of sexual peaks… The multi-orgasmic men we have studied have chosen to develop that capacity (stopping ejaculation using learned techniques)… The behavior itself (interrupting orgasm via such techniques) appears to be at least four thousand years old." [Hartman & Fithian. Any Man Can. 1984)] (emphasis added)

Kothari (1989)

Ironically, the most recent and arguably the best scientifically documented of all these studies was itself conducted in India, the cradle of Tantric Sex, by Dr. Prakash Kothari.

And, as also with our study, the 1989 Kothari study concentrated on but a single, adult male Subject. The 30-year-old Kothari Subject stated that he had acquired multiorgasmic capacity a year prior to the study after learning how to deliberately manipulate the striated pubococcygeus muscles used to stop ejaculation, which Kothari also regards as essential for multiorgasmic activity in the male.

In expressing his own conclusions, Kothari supports those arrived at previously, while exploring and explaining the physiological responses in greater detail.

"For the male, a cognitive orientation to experience multiorgasm is essential along with strong pubococcygeus muscles … The male has to train the striated muscles … In multiorgasm, ejaculate varies in volume and…the quantity is dependent on when the striated muscle contractions are voluntarily manipulated." [P. Kothari (Orgasm: New Dimensions; Chapter 11: Multiorgasm: psychophysiodynamics; 1989; VRP Publishers, Bombay, India] (emphasis added)

As also seen in all previous studies, here too the conclusion is that for a man to be "multiorgasmic" he must first learn to use muscular techniques to stop natural ejaculation from occurring.

Kothari makes clear that the mere expulsion of ejaculate during such multiple orgasms does not indicate natural ejaculation, but that the quantity of ejaculate which may or may not accompany such an orgasm is dependent on when the voluntary contractions are employed.

In illustration of this, Kothari provides for the first time ejaculate quantity data on such inhibited ejaculations as exhibited by his male Subject.


Kothari Subject Milking 1 Milking 2 Milking 3 Milking 4 Milking 5 Milking 6 Total
Volume (ml) 0.8 1 0.3 0.05 1.2 0.5 3.850
% of total 21 % 26 % 8 % 1 % 31 % 13 %  

Whereas in natural ejaculation, the first is understandably the greater in volume, here it is the fifth ejaculation which is the greatest. And, as is evident, with each ejaculation the volume is greatly limited — the fifth reaching only 1.2 ml. — indication again of what Kothari reported, that inhibitory techniques were voluntarily employed during each of the six ejaculations recorded.

In our study, this pattern is not at all in evidence. The ejaculate volume results are as follows:


Rutgers Subject

Milking 1 Milking 2 Milking 3 Milking 4 Milking 5 Milking 6 Total
Volume (ml) 2.6 0.02 0.45 0.05 0.05 0.005 3.175
% of total 81.8 % 0.6 % 14 % 1.6 % 1.6 % 0.2 %  
Minutes from the start
of MultiO-session
18 22 30 36 44 56 56
Minutes between
milkings
4 6 12  
  8 8    

But as would be expected, the first ejaculation is several times greater than those subsequent to it, and more than three times the amount of the first ejaculation of the Kothari study.

The key difference between the two studies being that the Kothari Subject admittedly used ejaculatory-control techniques so as to keep from experiencing full orgasm (i.e., full, uninterrupted ejaculation). As the Rutgers Subject does not experience a refractory period following full orgasm, no such inhibitory techniques were needed or used.

This fact is additionally verified by comparing the Kothari ejaculate-volume data side-by-side with the same data acquired in this Rutgers Study:


Volume (ml)

Milking 1 Milking 2 Milking 3 Milking 4 Milking 5 Milking 6 Milking 7 Milking 8 Milking 9 Milking 10 Milking 11 Total
Rutgers Subject 2.6 0.02 0.45 0.05 0.05 0.005 3.175
in lab % of total 81.8 % 0.6 % 14 % 1.6 % 1.6 % 0.2 %  
Kothari Subject 0.8 1 0.3 0.05 1.2 0.5 3.850
in lab % of total 21 % 26 % 8 % 1 % 31 % 13 %  
Rutgers Subject 7.1 2.3 1.2 1.6 0.09 1.1 0.04 0.02 0.02 0 0.01 13.48
at home % of total 52.7 % 17 % 8.9 % 11.9 % 0.67 % 8.16 % 0.3 % 0.15 % 0.15 % 0 % 0.07 %  

Here, unlike the ejaculate volumes of the Kothari Study, the first ejaculation of this study dwarfs in volume that of the Kothari Subject, clearly indicating that full ejaculation has taken place. And yet, four minutes later, a second orgasm and ejaculation occurs. Though the ejaculate volume of the subsequent orgasms is greatly diminished (which is to be expected, as the greater volume is usually expelled during the first full ejaculation), it is the volume of the first which proves the Subject's claims that no ejaculatory control techniques are employed, yet no refractory period is in evidence.

NOTE: It is important to recognize that the low subsequent ejaculate volumes (Orgasms 2 - 6) are not at all indications of either decreased orgasmic experience or diminished intensity of pleasure. Volume of ejaculation in natural male orgasm will vary dependent upon two major factors, only: volume of accumulated semen present in the seminal vesicles, and degree of arousal prior to orgasm.

Additionally, both the Kothari Subject and the Rutgers Subject ejaculated a total volume of only about one milliliter variance between them.

In the Beginning

From the first time that Ancient Man looked down at his deflated penis after an enjoyable orgasm he has tried to explain why, with a beautiful woman beside him and very likely still wanting more, he now suddenly wanted sleep more than anything else:

“After ejaculation a man is tired, his ears are buzzing, his eyes are heavy and he longs for sleep… In ejaculation he experiences a brief second of sensation but long hours of weariness as a result. On the other hand, if a man reduces and regulates his ejaculation to an absolute minimum, his body will be strengthened, his mind at ease and his vision and hearing improved. Although the man seems to have denied himself an ejaculatory sensation at times, his love for his woman will greatly increase.” [P’eng Tsu (Taoist Master to Emperor Huang Ti) “Secrets of the Jade Chamber”, circa 200 b.c.e.]

As evidenced from this ancient text and many others like it, since before such ancient times ejaculation (the loss of semen) has been seen as the culprit for the separate and distinct phenomenon that is the Male Refractory Period (MRP). Ancient Man erroneously yet understandably equated ejaculation and its accompanying loss of semen as the cause for this inexplicable post-orgasmic “weariness.” And thus the notion was born of semen as some vital essence or life energy flowing from the brain and down through the spinal column that was then “dissipated” or lost through ejaculation resulting in a decrease in the life force causing the man to need rest and sleep to recuperate. This further seemed supported by the similarity in appearance between semen and the fluids found in the brain and spinal column (fluids sure to have been seen often during the bloody conflicts of that age) as well as the rudimentary understanding of semen as the seed from which new life is created.

Thus began the well-documented, yet erroneous, Taoist notion that semen contains some vital life essence of man which must be retained and used very sparingly:

“When a man squanders his semen, he will be sick and if he carelessly exhausts his semen he will die.” [Sun S’su-Mo, Priceless Recipe, circa 700 a.c.e.]

So... What Are These "Ejaculatory-Control" Techniques?

Male Refractory Period (MRP)-free multiorgasmic capacity has apparently always been considered so above earthly sexual experience that for more than 500 years the Islamic religion considers such possible only to the "Elected Ones" to whom Allah will impart this exclusive male sexual capacity after death:

   "Each time we sleep with a houri we find her a virgin. Besides, the penis of the Elected never softens. The erection is eternal; the sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world and were you to experience it in this world you would faint. Each chosen one [i.e., Muslim male] will marry seventy houris, [i.e., virgins] besides the women he married on earth, and all will have appetizing vaginas." [Imam Jalaluddin Al-Suyuti (d. 1505 CE), Al-'Itqan fi 'ulum al-Qur'an, p. 351.]
(Author's Note: It is in large part due to this promised "eternal" sexual capacity, along with the coinciding promise of 70+ virgins with whom to enjoy it, that continues most to motivate extremist Islamic men to commit mass murder and suicide terrorist attacks against "infidel" populations worldwide. Thus were research to make possible such an "eternal" orgasmic capacity in this life, perhaps such Islamic men might be less inclined to so violently leave it.)

Anciently, in China and India particularly, males discovered that natural ejaculation triggered a physiological response that required males to endure a "down" time. This was characterized by a loss of erection, usually accompanied by an equal loss of desire and arousal. So, spiritual philosophies arose providing males with the "sour grapes" attitude that this was for the best, as somehow ejaculation drained a man of his physical and sexual energy (termed "T'ai Ching" by the Chinese) and therefore should be avoided at all cost. Voluntary techniques were discovered which allowed a man to experience "mini-orgasms" which were cut short by manipulating certain pelvic muscle groups. These voluntary manipulations were learned and used to stop ejaculation so as to avoid the subsequent Male Refractory Period (MRP) and thereby preserve and retain the male's "T'ai Ching."

India came up with its own version of these same techniques and philosophy: Tantra. Today known by such terms as "Extended Sexual Orgasm" (E.S.O.) and "psychic orgasm", Tantric Sex bases its principles upon variations of the same sexual philosophy as developed in China.

Unfortunately, not much has changed in 4,000 years. Today, despite the claims of countless charlatans hawking every sort of concoction, vitamin supplement, technique regimen, etc., males have no more choices now than they did 4,000 years ago. And, should they master these "techniques," they can only hope, at best, to mimic the female's natural sexual capacity and potential.

Voluntary techniques were first documented which, when used, kept natural ejaculation from occurring — and thus, also kept the refractory period from occurring, as well. These ejaculation-stopping manuevers are what allow men to mimic the true multiple orgasms women experience. Of course, these techniques come at a cost. And that cost is, ironically, pleasure.

One of the latest of these books to rehash and capitalize on these millennias-old techniques is "The Multi-Orgasmic Man" (Chia & Arava, 1996). These same techniques can also be found in "Any Man Can" (Hartman & Fithian, 1984), "How to Make Love All Night" (Keesling, 1994), and all other books on the subject, both modern and ancient.

A brief summary of the ancient ejaculatory-control techniques contained in "The Multi-Orgasmic Man", along with an insightful review of this book, can be found at www.sexuality.org.

Taoism, Tantricism, and a lot of good of fashioned Western Capitalism

While no one can blame Ancient Man for thinking of semen as “cerebrospinal fluid” that somehow, both biologically and metaphysically, embodies a man’s “life energy” and “vital essence”, it is frankly inexcusable that 4,000 years later so many still refuse to abandon such superstitious attitudes regarding semen and ejaculation. And yet, little has changed in all that time. Today, ejaculation is still regarded as the “Public Enemy #1″ of male sexual capacity, just as it has been for millennia.

Anciently, Taoist and Tantric practitioners concluded that since ejaculation seemed to be what caused this post-ejaculatory sexual and physical fatigue — there must be something inherently evil about ejaculation that is spiritually and physically debilitating to men. As a result, they developed, preached, and taught the use of ejaculatory-control techniques.

Unlike the many “multiorgasmic” technique books of today, the ancient Taoist texts never claimed that these techniques would enhance male sexual pleasure. The original Oriental authors remained truthful in stating that these techniques were intended to keep men from experiencing ejaculation, and thus the pleasures associated with it. The techniques were seen as a necessary sacrifice of pleasure so as to preserve a man’s generative energy, or life force.

It has only been fairly recently that the concept of enhanced pleasure through such techniques has been claimed by those seeking to turn a profit on these techniques.  Thus, for more than 4,000 years, men worldwide have been fooled and duped into believing that they can have “multiple orgasms” and that to be multiorgasmic, they must sacrifice full, natural orgasm along with all its attendant pleasures so as to maintain their erections and thus, their “life force” and spiritual energy.Western Capitalism has bamboozled gullible men.

At the above-referenced website, the unidentified author of the review prefaces his/her remarks with an erudite critique of the philosophical Taoist premise upon which these techniques are based:

   "Where 'The Multi-Orgasmic Man' takes a few steps outside of its grounding in sex research is in its approach to ejaculation. This book advances the argument that ejaculating is bad for men's overall health, and suggests enjoying non-ejaculatory multiple orgasms so that pleasure may be enhanced AND so that ejaculation may be avoided. In support of their argument that ejaculation is bad for health, the authors cite 1) a study that showed a certain species of male worm lives longer if it doesn't ejaculate, 2) that men get tired after orgasm, and 3) that ancient Chinese Taoist practitioners thought ejaculation was bad for overall health.
   "This hits the heart of my major criticism of this book. The authors don't make the case that the worm studies carry over into humans, and in fact fail to cite any evidence that (say) celibate people live longer than cassa novas (sic). They also don't show that getting tired (post ejaculation) affects *long-term* health. What the authors do instead is to continually repeat that ejaculation is bad for health because 'ancient Taoist masters said it was.' Unless you're already inclined to Taoism, you're unlikely to find these arguments about ejaculation to be very convincing."

For more information on male "multiorgasmic" ejaculatory-control techniques via the Internet, we highly recommend the website www.sex-project.com.

It is certainly not the intention of this study to invalidate the orgasmic experiences of all males who have made the effort to become proficient in such techniques. Where males are able to add to their sexual options, and to thus prolong the sexual pleasure of their female partners, more power to them!

Tantric sex is a great boon to human sexuality in that it has always celebrated sensuality throughout the centuries. In the continuation of this celebration, this study offers the first real hope that perhaps male sexuality holds within the potential for full orgasmic quality and quantity, rather than mere mini-orgasmic quantity.

Of course, revealing this fact does not sell books, which is why only here will you find the truth.

And what of pleasure?

Do these "techniques" really enhance the pleasure?

Despite all the claims, the scientific evidence strongly indicates otherwise. While a useful option, these techniques shown to inhibit pleasure. In 1989, Dr. Prakash Kothari conducted a comprehensive scientific study on a "multiorgasmic" male using these ejaculatory-control techniques. Kothari found that as a direct result of the use of these techniques "the intensity of orgasmic pleasure is reduced in (male) multiorgasm. This is because the voluntarily initiated striated muscle contractions at a critical point (orgasmic inevitability or ejaculatory inevitability), if sustained, merge and interfere with their own pleasure laden, clonic involuntary rhythm associated with the orgasmic experience... Female multiorgasmic experience requires no such efforts and if any concentration is required, it is only on the existing pleasurable sensations and on those which are going to follow... By and large, the male multiorgasmic experience is the outcome of effort but for the female it is an effortless experience." [P. Kothari (ibid.)] (emphasis added)

All previous studies have succeeded only in documenting the universality of the Male Refractory Period (MRP) and the voluntary means by which males have learned over millennia to deal with it as best they can, while still having to live with it. Techniques that interrupt orgasm have been scientifically shown to interrupt pleasure. This is why multiorgasmic women have never bothered with them. It is our hope to someday offer men this same option.

As seen by all previous studies, these men are no different from anyone else. Without consciously employing learned "techniques," they react to orgasm as would any other male and lose any capacity for multiple orgasms.

This is certainly not the case with multiorgasmic women, nor with the male research Subject of this Rutgers Study. Only the Rutgers study succeeded in documenting a male sexual response cycle that did not include MRP after natural, fully ejaculatory orgasms.

And thus, for the first time in history, an adult male is scientifically documented experiencing one full natural orgasm after another without interruption, without withholding ejaculation, and yet without any evidence of a Male Refractory Period, thereafter. For the first time, a male has been scientifically documented possessing a truly natural multiorgasmic capacity, one which gives every indication of being as physiological in nature as is the female multiorgasmic capacity. This Rutgers Study is the first ever to provide true hope in over four thousand years that the Male Refractory Period (MRP) may not be as absolute nor as universal as has always been believed. Some men — or at least the one in this study — do not experience MRP, at all, even after several natural, fully ejaculatory, true multiple orgasms — something "modern" science has long determined to be "physiologically impossible."

No "multiorgasmic" (ejaculatory-control) techniques were used during this study. Unlike those required for all other male "multiorgasmic" studies, none were needed, here. Again, this is the first study to scientifically document the real thing.

What Orgasm Ain’t

Today, Orgasm just ain’t what it used to be.

“Orgasm” used to be very clearly defined by legitimate sex research that scientifically studied human sexual physiology, and faithfully recorded, analyzed, and released the results. Today however, almost any sensation can find itself interpreted by some new profiteering “sexpert” as being the same as orgasm. Misleading terms such as “psychic orgasm”, “total orgasm”, “extended sexual orgasm” (E.S.O.) etc., fill the books, tapes, and courses of these inventive hucksters as they continue to successfully feed off of the public’s sexual gullibility.

One book in particular takes this definition-stretching past the realm of incredulity into the truly sublime. In the “multiorgasmic” book, The One-Hour Orgasm, the authors simply re-state the concept behind E.S.O., and justify both terms by defining the term “orgasm” as beginning “…when the genital area is feeling better than any other part of the body.” (Schwartz & Schwartz, 3rd Ed., p. 2). By this definition, you are “orgasming” from the moment you begin any sexual stimulation whatsoever, until you decide to stop! Hence, the title of the book, and in essence the necessary mindset needed for E.S.O., as well. And of course, this book continues to sell like hotcakes.

In the Sixties, following a decade’s worth of research recording thousands of male orgasms, Masters & Johnson correctly and unbiasedly reported that male orgasm naturally includes ejaculation, and thereafter results in a refractory period. Given this scientifically documented fact, the term “male multiple orgasm” becomes a contradiction in terms and a physiological impossibility for males, while this refractory period exists.

However with the advent in the Seventies of scientific research into ejaculatory-control techniques, a sudden re-defining of male orgasm “miraculously” appeared, making possible the successful marketing of all the many books, courses, articles, etc., on the subject. By declaring “orgasm” separate from the orgasmic contractions that cause ejaculation, it became possible to call these technique-induced, non-ejaculatory experiences “orgasms”. And thus, “male multiple orgasm” went from a physiological impossibility to a successful strategy for re-packaging and marketing 4,000-year-old Taoist ejaculatory-control techniques.

The Truth Regarding Male Orgasms

TRUTH #1: Despite Tantric Superstition, Ejaculation the Key to Pleasure and Good Health!

While “sexperts” continually attempt to discredit the findings of Masters & Johnson on this one, the indisputable fact remains that (as Masters & Johnson observed in tens of thousands of male orgasms) unless a man does something on purpose at orgasm to stop ejaculation, he’s going to ejaculate.

Ejaculation is thus an inherent, natural, and pleasurable part of male orgasm. This is additionally supported in the following:

“The most characteristic physical feature of orgasm is the sensation produced by the simultaneous rhythmic contractions of the pubococcygeus muscle (PC muscle). Along with contractions of the anal sphincter, rectum and perineum… and the ejaculatory ducts and muscles around the penis for men, this constitutes the reflex of orgasm. The first few contractions are intense and close together, occurring at about 0.8-second intervals. As orgasm continues, the contractions diminish in intensity and duration and occur at less frequent intervals.”
[http://www.bettersex.com/sexdata/term.asp?termid=160]

In complete contradiction to baseless Tantric superstitions, modern science has recently discovered that frequent ejaculation (at least 5 times per week) significantly reduces the incidence of prostate cancer, the most common form of cancer in men, and related prostate difficulties:

   “A team in Australia led by Graham Giles of The Cancer Council Victoria in Melbourne… concludes that the more men ejaculate between the ages of 20 and 50, the less likely they are to develop prostate cancer.
   “The protective effect is greatest while men are in their twenties: those who had ejaculated more than five times per week in their twenties, for instance, were one-third less likely to develop aggressive prostate cancer later in life.” [BJU International, vol 92, p 211]

Since the invention of the microscope we have known that semen is not at all related to any fluid proceeding from the spine or the brain. Yet despite this, modern Taoists (and the occasional medical professional, as seen above) still cling tenaciously to this ancient flawed and superstitious philosophy regarding the nature and makeup of semen.

As discovered by modern science, semen continually replenishes itself in the normal male physiology. Thus the false Eastern superstitious belief in semen as containing some vital “life essence” is as foolish as the old Western religious notion of semen as “sacred” and thus a “sin” to expend except for the creation of life (“Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.” – Monty Python, “The Meaning of Life”). It is high time this false Taoist notion of semen and ejaculation be as discredited, if not also equally lampooned, by modern science and Society.

TRUTH #2: Unlike the notions of Taoism and Tantricism, It is the Male Refractory Period (MRP) that is the true enemy of male sexual response, not ejaculation.

By definition, true multiple orgasms are natural, fully ejaculatory, uninterrupted orgasms. Thus, as the Research Subject's sexual physiology does not happen to include a Male Refractory Period, no such techniques were used during the Rutgers study.

Of course while that's great for him, what about the rest of us?

Over 33% of all men suffer from what is called “Premature Ejaculation.” Which means that over 1/3 of all men can’t keep from orgasming long enough to satisfy their partners. However, it’s not the orgasming that is the problem, nor the ejaculation that accompanies it; the problem is the MRP that follows ejaculation.

Were men capable of retaining their erections following ejaculation, it would not matter how soon after penetration they experienced orgasm and ejaculated, they would be able to keep right on going (er… cumming) to the benefit of themselves and their partners.

Thus, it is MRP that we should be villifying and attempting to eradicate through research, not ejaculation through pleasure-robbing techniques.

MRP The True Issue, not Ejaculation

While these techniques do provide men a potentially valuable option to the stereotypical one-orgasm-per-erection scenario, they do require that men sacrifice the full pleasures of orgasm so as to prolong their erections.

Until further research can begin to unlock the secrets behind MRP, the only means known to prolong sexual functioning in the male after orgasm is through the use of ejaculatory-control techniques. Thus, while still not on equal ground with their female multiorgasmic counterparts, through the use of such techniques males can at least — literally — keep "up."

Inversely speaking however, no matter how great a man's sex drive, he will still experience a refractory period following natural orgasm and ejaculation whether he likes it or not. Thus, for him, true multiple orgasms are not possible — or so we have been told!

It's time that men in general, and science in particular, realize that MRP is the true issue, not ejaculation and its natural and very real pleasures. And now that the conquest of MRP has finally been documented, it's time we realized that the True Male Sexual Potential is far greater than has ever before been imagined.

The Male Refractory Period: The Universal Male Sexual Limitation

Since Time began, men have suffered under the burden of a universal sexual limitation:

   "...upon ejaculation, men enter a recovery phase called the refractory period. During this time, further orgasm or ejaculation is physiologically impossible." [http://www.bettersex.com/sexdata/term.asp?termid=160]

   "An important difference between males and females is the presence of a refractory period in males during which the male cannot be stimulated to further orgasm. This refractory period may last several minutes to many hours. In women there is not a true refractory period and women are typically capable of achieving multiple orgasm with further stimulation." [http://www.uams.edu/department_of_psychiatry/syllabus/SEX/Sex96.htm]

   "Ordinarily, after ejaculation, a man normally has no further interest in sexual activity of any kind. Physically, for a period of ten minutes to perhaps more than an hour for some men, the man is physically unable to achieve another erection. This is sometimes referred to as the refractory period." [http://www.sexuality.org/l/sex/dsmansex.html]

And men are not its only victims:
   "The one thing I hate is that no matter how you go about it, intercourse ends almost always when he comes and becomes limp..."
   "I feel it is a great pity that males and females were sexually-biologically built such that males are ready to quit just as females are getting started."
   "If the partner is male, the woman is stuck with the limits of his sexuality."
[female respondents in "The Hite Report" (1976, p. 325)]

The Male Refractory Period: Defined

   "Refractory Period: A temporary period of psychophysiologic erectile incompetence immediately following (natural) ejaculation during which a male cannot be sexually aroused. The duration of the refractory period may be minimal in teen years and longer in later years." [A Descriptive Dictionary & Atlas of Sexology (1995), Francoeur, Perper, Scherzer]

Additional references:
   "An important difference between males and females is the presence of a refractory period in males during which the male cannot be stimulated to further orgasm. This may last several minutes to many hours. In women there is not a true refractory period and women are typically capable of achieving multiple orgasm with further stimulation." [http://www.uams.edu/department_of_psychiatry/syllabus/SEX/Sex96.htm]
   "Physically, for a period of ten minutes to perhaps more than an hour for some men, the man is physically unable to achieve another erection. This is sometimes referred to as the refractory period." [http://www.sexuality.org/l/sex/dsmansex.html]

Masters and Johnson, perhaps the most well-known of all sex researchers, documented more than 100,000 orgasms during their decade-long study of hundreds of volunteer human Subjects. As a result, they documented what they described as the Human Sexual Response Cycle. And, for the first time, the term "Male Refractory Period" was coined.

Rutgers's study is the first ever to provide scientific evidence that, at least in one male, this refractory period does not occur following full, natural ejaculation.

MRP: The TRUE Enemy — and cause of "Premature Ejaculation"

The most common of all male sexual dysfunctions, Premature Ejaculation (also known as Ejaculatory Control Dysfunction or Rapid Ejaculation [RE]) is defined as:
   "Persistent or recurrent ejaculation with minimal sexual stimulation before, on, or shortly after penetration and before the person wishes it." [American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.] (emphasis added)

As seen above, the defining characteristic of this common dysfunction is not ejaculation, but instead, ejaculation    "...before the person wishes it. " Now who wouldn't "wish" to have an ejaculation and the highly pleasurable orgasm that accompanies it?

The answer is an obvious one: ejaculation triggers the Male Refractory Period (MRP): the "down" time (literally and figuratively) almost universally experienced by adult males following orgasm. Thus it is MRP, rather than orgasm and its accompanying ejaculation, that is the true culprit.

Were MRP not an issue, men could cum as quickly as they want and still be ready for more, just as women are able to do. Without MRP, despite orgasm and ejaculation, neither erection or desire would be lost and thus men would be able to continue on for as long as they or their partners might like.

However, as all normal men must go through MRP following orgasm, this refractory period forces men to either sacrifice pleasure or sacrifice their erections. And many men either prefer to enjoy pleasure at the cost of their continued erection, or don't know how to stop pleasure in time. After all, it is understandably contrary to Human nature to knowingly and deliberately stop one's own sexual pleasure.

Therefore it comes as no surprise that this one dysfunction (Premature Ejaculation) is reportedly suffered by as many as 75% of all men:

   "INTRODUCTION. Premature or rapid ejaculation (RE) has been identified as the most common male sexual dysfunction and is estimated to affect between one third and three quarters of men (Chesney et al., 1981; Kinsey et al., 1948; McCarthy, 1988; Nathan, 1986; Reading and Wiest, 1984; Spector and Carey, 1990)." [The relationships among ejaculatory control, ejaculatory latency, and attempts to prolong heterosexual intercourse. Archives of Sexual Behavior, vol. 26, no. 1, p27 (21) http://library.northernlight.com/PC19970927040009201.html?cb=0&sc=0#doc]

   "Lack of ejaculatory control is probably the most common male sexual problem. The main manifestation of this difficulty is that the men consistently come more quickly than they or their partners want in intercourse; hence the terms 'premature' and 'rapid ejaculation'... It has been estimated that about one-third of American men suffer from an inability to control the timing of their ejaculations; that is many millions of men." [Dr. Bernie Zilbergeld, "The New Male Sexuality", http://www.thriveonline.com/sex/malesex/malesex.ejaculatory.html]

   "Many millions of men" suffer from this dysfunction not primarily due to the fact that they orgasm quickly but because in the male, orgasm and ejaculation trigger MRP, and thus erection is lost thereafter. Women can also orgasm quickly, yet this is hardly seen as a dysfunction. This is because women don't suffer from MRP; their sexual physiologies do not require a "down" time after only a single orgasm.

Of course, women's libidoes and/or orgasmic needs vary from woman to woman as much as does the male sex drive from man to man. However, unlike with men, women's sexual physiologies do not require that they endure a refractory period following natural orgasm. Thus, all women at least possess the potential and the capacity for multiple orgasms.

So what are TRUE Male Multiple Orgasms?

Exactly as nature intended, and the same as it is for women: one natural (fully ejaculatory) orgasm after another — without “techniques” and with all the same pleasurable contractions experienced by both sexes and that in men produce ejaculation — yet without suffering any refractory period (“down time”), thereafter.

Here, male orgasms are defined exactly as Nature has defined them. No changing what natural orgasms are to fit the circumstances, and no redefining the term “orgasm” to mean something it isn’t.

And with such natural orgasms comes a pleasure and a natural euphoria that previously was thought only possible for women.

The Endorphin-induced Euphoria of True Multiple Orgasms

In orgasm, a burst of endorphins is released in the brain, which is part of the pleasure process experienced. In single or sequential orgasms (orgasms separated by a refractory period or a return to the pre-arousal state), these endorphins dissipate fairly quickly as the body returns to its pre-orgasmic state. This period of dissipation is what is called “afterglow,” which feels great all by itself. However, compared with what happens in multiple orgasm, this is nothing!

In true multiple orgasms, the endorphins released never get the chance to dissipate before subsequent orgasms release more and more endorphins. They literally overload the brain with pleasure, and it is this continual release of endorphins that succeeds, after a few multiple orgasms, in producing an increasingly stronger opiate-like state of euphoria or “high.”

Yes, “opiate-like” in that this sexual pleasure process does for the body naturally what opiate drugs do unnaturally in releasing wave after wave of endorphins, literally flooding the brain with them and causing a heightened state of euphoria. However, unlike the damaging effects of opiate-type drugs, true multiple orgasms are good healthy fun, physically and emotionally.

This is a pleasure phenomenon that men – as a result of the Male Refractory Period and despite all the ejaculatory-control techniques and tantric philosophies – cannot experience, a degree of ecstasy only known to true multiorgasmics providing the medium wherein the highest level of the emotional and the erotic can be achieved, shared, and savored between lovers. It is a communion of the physical and emotional senses unparalleled by any other experience attainable in the mortal sphere.

While rarely described in print, The Hite Report documents the accounts of several multiorgasmic women independently corroborating and reporting on their own experiences with this seldom-recounted euphoric state of multiorgasmic sexual ecstasy:

“The first orgasm is just the beginning. I find I become more aroused generally (not just in the genital area) after the first couple of orgasms. I arouse slowly, but once aroused, the feeling grows larger and more intense and sweet, engulfing me.”
“The more the better. Once I start having orgasms, it is one long series of orgasms.”
“One is just a warm-up and the best is to go on until I drop from exhaustion. They just keep getting better and better.”
“… orgasms keep going and going and getting stronger (as long as restimulation is continued) until when I am finally finished, I cry to release the tension or whatever it is — leave my body and fly!”
[The Hite Report, 1981, pp. 174-175]

Here’s follows a poignant recounting by one multiorgamic woman of this capacity and her confusion, frustration, and even sexual self-recrimination regarding it in comparison with her male lovers’ own limited sexual capacities:

“One orgasm is almost never enough. Successive orgasms become stronger and usually deeper, more satisfying. I don’t know how many I might be capable of. In fact, I often feel frustrated and a bit scared by this multi-orgasmic capacity. I’ve rarely had ‘sessions’ where I’ve felt like I really had enough. I get tired by myself and haven’t been with many men who can sustain a long enough period of arousal in themselves. [ibid, p. 176]

For other multiorgasmic women, such frustration and self-recrimination is avoided through much more satisfying lesbian relationships where as true multiorgasmics such wonderfully hypersensual beings are finally able to truly bond together, experiencing in their relationships emotional and sensual ecstacies and intimacies previously unparalleled and impossible with MRP-limited male lovers:

“I am… a lesbian… My lover satisfies me because both of us can continue in bed having orgasms over and over again and never really coming down off them.” [ibid, p. 175-176]

These “Hite Report” quotes and many more like them only hint at the true sensual capacity of multiorgasmic sex that, due solely to MRP, only women have thus far been able to experience and enjoy. This provides for men only the slightest taste of what they are missing and what, in heterosexual relationships, poses the greatest single disparity forever separating the sexes.

This is the sensual birthright still denied men and their relationships with women and will forever be denied them and their female partners unless and until MRP is finally permitted to be fully researched and a solution to this universal male sexual dysfunction discovered.

Conclusions

Can men really experience true orgasm(s), complete with full, natural ejaculation, yet not experience a refractory period afterwards? At present this is not known. What is hoped, however, is that where one man exists who is "immune" to MRP, it might be possible to investigate and discover why. Thereafter, it is further hoped that such an understanding might eventually result in possible future benefits for all men — and therefore, women.

This Rutgers study is the first research study ever to scientifically document the fact that for some men it is possible to experience relatively rapid natural, full orgasms with full ejaculations without triggering MRP, and therefore without any "Premature Ejaculation" dysfunction in evidence. Thus where MRP is not a factor, neither can ejaculation be called "premature," and therefore there is no dysfunction.

As this study has shown, in very unique cases (such as that of the research Subject) fully ejaculatory orgasms can occur at intervals of only two minutes apart and yet still not fall within the paradigm of defining characteristics as established for "premature ejaculation." This is because where no MRP exists, no loss of sexual functioning occurs. Thus such orgasmic capacity actually enhances such men's capacity for pleasure both for themselves and their partners.

As shown by this Study, it is not the length of time to orgasm that is the problem, but instead the loss of erection and desire thereafter caused by MRP that is the dysfunction. Thus, where MRP is not an issue, neither is "Premature Ejaculation."

And yet despite this fact, not a single scientific investigation has to-date ever been attempted to determine why it is that natural male orgasm and ejaculation trigger the Male Refractory Period in most men. Instead, sexologists continue to instruct men only on treating the symptom through ejaculatory-control and -delay techniques rather than working to find a "cure" for MRP through investigation and research into the causes behind it.

It is hoped this study might help motivate such an investigation. Natural multiple orgasms, plain and simple. No interrupting or impeding ejaculation, no required "techniques," nothing to interfere or interrupt the human sexual potential for unlimited pleasure. Natural multiple orgasms with full ejaculation each time, and with no refractory period in evidence. In other words, the natural sexual capacity almost all women are physiologically capable of, and have been enjoying for millennia. Scientifically speaking, there exists not a single study of such a natural male multiorgasmic capacity anywhere in the annals of history, either.

What is required now is continued research beyond mere documentation of this rare capacity so as to hopefully isolate and identify the actual psycho-physiologic triggers to this male sexual limitation and perhaps discover how such triggers can be "deactivated", — as they already are naturally in the Research Subject of the Rutgers Study. And now that the "impossible" has been documented, it is imperative that research be conducted to re-evaluate the true potentials of male sexual capacity.