The Love Muscle

Forget Pilates. Think pubococcygeus. Female genitalia are not passive, nor are they simply reactive. Writers familiar with women from Eastern cultures speak of "women with an extraordinarily powerful muscle in a region where other women seem to have no muscles at all." Women can strengthen these muscles by clenching (the so-called Kegel exercise). Researchers hooked women up to a device that measured pressure. Totally non-orgasmic women registered an average of 7.42 mmHg on the Kegel perineometer. Clitorally (but not coitally) orgasmic women registered 12.31 mmHg. Women who were both clitorally and coitally orgasmic rang the chimes at 17mmHg.