A woman’s brain gets more active, not less, as she approaches orgasm, a new study finds.
Researchers from the Rutgers University in Newark, New jersey performed more detailed brain scans of women leading up to, during and after orgasm than have ever been done before.
While the study confirmed earlier findings about pain levels, it overturned previous research that suggested that parts of a woman’s brain ‘turn off’ when she orgasms.
Instead, the Rutgers research found a slow build of activity in the parts of women’s brains associated with memory, movement and emotion that peaked when her physical pleasure did.