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Orgasm

What is an Orgasm?

An orgasm is a feeling of great physical pleasure. With sexual stimulation, men and women can reach a peak of excitement that ends with an orgasm. An orgasm releases the sexual tension. When a person has an orgasm people sometimes say he or she comes.

What Happens When a Man Comes?

When a man comes his penis muscles contract and relax so the semen shoots out in short spurts. This is called ejaculation. When a man ejaculates he releases about one teaspoonful of semen which contains 100 to 300 million sperm. After he comes, the man's penis goes back to its usual size.

What Happens When a Woman Comes?

A woman has the same kind of muscle contractions as a man when she comes. The clitoris is the most sexually sensitive part of a woman's body. The clitoris is stimulated when it is rubbed or touched or when the penis moves back and forth in the vagina. When the clitoris is stimulated it gets hard. The tension that is built up can be released with an orgasm.

What are Wet Dreams?

A man has erections in his sleep. Sometimes he has dreams that end with an orgasm. This is called a wet dream.

Wet dreams are normal. They just happen. If a boy does not know about wet dreams, he may think he has urinated (peed). A wet dream is not urinating because only semen is released.

Woman can have dreams that end with orgasms. But these are not called wet dreams.

Are Sexual Fantasies Normal?

Many people have sex fantasies or day dreams. People can have fantasies while they are awake, daydreaming, reading a book, seeing a movie, or sleeping. There is nothing wrong with fantasies. It is normal to have them or not to have them.

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