Remember, don't shoot the messenger. This subject is a little over the top, but I'm posting about it because I've never heard anything like it in my 60 + years, and it's courtesy of the UK Royal Academy of Medicine. PSAS, Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome, was first described in 2001. It affects only women. Sufferers live in a constant state of sexual excitement, some enduring non-stop orgasms, in the total absence of sexual stimulation. This affliction was written up in the April issue of the Journal of STD and AIDS, published by the Royal Academy of Medicine. The "story" was picked up by Reuters on March 24, and broadcast by my local (Sacramento) CBS-TV station last night. When I went to the Journal for details, it asked for $19 for access to the article. I passed. Some women who have it had recently stopped taking anti-depressants of the seratonin reuptake inhibitor class. And you thought it was just college frat boys! B)
I heard about this. It wrecks their lives. There was an article in "Discover" magazine a few years back about a similar case after a woman suffered a concussion. Her husband was overjoyed for about a week and then it became a severe problem. Nate
http://www.answers.com/topic/persistent-se...rousal-syndrome http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/wome...oy_out_of_life/
I immediately thought of Woody Allen's movie, Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex *But Were Afraid To Ask. (paraphrasing) Dr. Bernardo: Take Igor here...I gave him a 4-hour orgasm and he turned out like this. [Igor looks like Quasimodo]
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ghostofjk @ May 4 2006, 09:41 PM) [snapback]249998[/snapback]</div> Maybe that's why some women have such a hard time - conservation of sexual excitement. These women are using it all up, not leaving enough for all of the rest. :mellow: Tom
My unthinking male reaction is to smirk and make light of it ("How would it be..."), but, as the Globe article notes, I DO remember being a 17-year-old boy (and carrying my books a certain way after fantasizing through a class ). It must be...maddening. Thanks for the links, Kiloran. I didn't come up with anything after feeding "PSAS" into my search engines. Then again, it WOULD make a dynamite Prius story, wherein a new Prius owner unknowingly dates a woman who has this affliction, and he becomes aware of it in any of a number of ways...and attributes it to the car...the ultimate chick magnet tale---I can picture it now, as enacted on Saturday Night Live...
Imagine if the poor woman was a squirter Man I just cant imagine someone suffering from that affliction!
A man was on an airplane and every few minutes the woman seated next to him would sneeze, go though a mild convulsion and let out a very satisfied sounding oooo! Then man said to her, I've noticed that you have very strong reaction to sneezing, are you OK? She replied, I have a condition that causes me to have an orgasm every time I sneeze. He asked. Are you taking anything for it? She replied. Yes, pepper.
there is some more info from ABC news: Medical Mystery: Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome - ABC News
