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Orgasm depression

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Orgasm suppression (formally known as anorgasmia) can be described as ranging anywhere between a general difficulty or rarely (although at higher dosages this becommes much more common) even a complete inability to achieve orgasm despite adequate physical and mental sexual stimulation.[1]

This effect commonly occurs on opioids and dissociatives which have been reported to decrease one's ability to feel sexual pleasure, which may be attributed to their tactile suppressing or vasoconstricting effects or through some other biological mechanism.[citation needed] It is also a well-known side effect of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and typically from stimulants.[2]

It may also be a result of the effect known as difficulty urinating which can occur on certain stimulants and entactogens. This effect has been reported to occur alongside a decrease the strength of one's kegel muscles, which may account for the inability to achieve multiple or single erections, ejaculations and/or orgasms within males.


Further reports suggest that the typical requirements buy which orgasms come can change when under this effect. Certain positions, teqniques or speeds of sex or masturbation may make a seemingly impossible orgsma entirely possible. An example of an usual effect is that higher speeds/frequencies of insert appropiate word here?stroking? can decrease sensations all the way to numbness, and make orgasm almost impossible.

Psychoactive substances

Compounds within our psychoactive substance index which may cause this effect include:

See also

References

  1. Brindley, G. S., & Gillan, P. A. T. R. I. C. I. A. (1982). Men and women who do not have orgasms. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 140(4), 351-356. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.140.4.351
  2. Ashton, A. K., Hamer, R., & Rosen, R. C. (1997). Serotonin reuptake inhibitor-induced sexual dysfunction and its treatment: a large-scale retrospective study of 596 psychiatric outpatients. Journal of sex & marital therapy, 23(3), 165-175. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00926239708403922