Improve your Pelvic floor, improve the intensity of your orgasms!

"Every time you have an orgasm an angel comes to life."

Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

One of my best friends is a physiotherapist who specialises in women’s health, she’s always banging on about the need to keep your pelvic floor muscles lean and mean to prevent you having to pay more attention to those TV adverts for “ladies pull up incontinence pants”. Well, I listen and she’s right, I don’t want to EVER be in a position where I need to wear those! However, there is another reason, an all together much more interesting reason for keeping your pelvic floor muscles strong and, errrr...... tight!

Did you know that pelvic floor exercises are the secret to more intense orgasms? Well, think about it, since the pelvic floor muscles are the muscles that surround the vaginal opening and contract rhythmically during orgasm, it’s hardly surprising that sex therapists emphasise the importance of the pelvic floor muscles in the orgasmic response. Several benefits of a strong pelvic floor are well accepted.

A fitter, well-toned pelvic floor will almost certainly increase sexual pleasure for a woman, and it can dramatically improve your sexual confidence. The physiological reasons for the improvement go far beyond the increased tactile sensations resulting from a tighter vagina.

Pelvic floor exercises create an increase in pelvic vascularity which means more blood flow and more veins in the pelvic region. This will increase your awareness of the clitoral and vaginal sensations that lead to orgasm. Any stronger muscle will contract more powerfully than would a flabby muscle; it stands to reason then; the likelihood of stronger orgasms is much higher with stronger pelvic floor muscles. With regular pelvic floor exercise, many women report being able to experience vaginal orgasm for the first time. Women also report more intense and more frequent multiple and G-spot orgasms, happy days!

If you've never done pelvic floor exercises, here are the basics. To find where your pelvic floor muscles are located, concentrate on which muscles you use to stop the flow of urine, give it a go, next time you’re on the loo, try to stop the flow, that’s it, right there, that’s your pelvic floor muscles doing their thing! Now you know where they are and what they feel like, you can exercise them.

Once you can locate them like this, you can exercise them any time you like by tightening and lifting.

To tighten and lift your pelvic floor muscles, imagine doing the following at the same time:

squeezing your bottom as if stopping a poo
squeezing to stop the flow of pee
squeezing as though you’re gripping a tampon in your vagina.

You don’t need to go to the gym to exercise your pelvic floor muscles, you can do pelvic floor exercises anywhere you like. Nobody will know what you’re doing – as long as you don’t do what I was doing on the tube the other day, raise your eyebrows each time you squeeze, ooops!

You can exercise in the car, while you’re on the phone or waiting in the queue at Waitrose.

Probably the most important thing about doing pelvic floor exercises is that you will become more familiar with your pelvis which will allow you to take ownership of your internal and external genitalia. By strengthening the muscles that contract during orgasm, you are taking control of your orgasmic response. It’s quite simple really, the stronger the muscles, the stronger the orgasm and who wouldn’t want that!

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