I first became aware of the occurrence of “psychasms” in my work with physically impaired persons. Even in those persons with complete severing of any connection between genital stimulation and the brain, orgasms and sometimes more intense orgasms than prior to injury were reported.
“I feel it. Well, I don’t actually ‘feel’ as much as I ‘experience it.’ It may be an ‘eargasm,’ or ‘neckasm’ or related to just a ‘cud-dleasm,’ but is clearly an intense orgasm. I really think I never had orgasm, at least not anything but physical orgasms, before I broke my neck.” This report came from a young skier who had injured herself in a fall several years ago. As I worked with her and her uninjured husband, they both reported a clear and distinct difference between physiological and psychological orgasms.
“I learned from her what it meant to really have orgasms, to really come. It wasn’t like just in one place … it was an overwhelming event. It sort of came over me instead of me coming.” Her husband had been freed to experience the difference between physiological reflex in reaction to genital stimulation and psychological experience through a shared body/mind experience.
Psychasm has been one of the most difficult of concepts for me to present at professional programs. “Orgasm is orgasm” is usually the argument, even though basic neurophysiolgy teaches that ejaculation and contractions are not the same as the full orgasmic experience. Discuss the issue with your partner. You will see that you are able to divide the physical from the psychological aspects of orgasm, and be able to take the “organ” out of orgasm.
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