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AS A SEXUAL BIOLOGICAL ORGANISM, WOMEN ARE SUPERIOR
TO MEN
Women are multi-orgasmic. The female sexual response cycle
is unimpeded by a required refractory period that prevents
successive orgasms in the male.
Principal understanding of the physiology of the human sexual
response emanates from observational research studies by William
H. Masters, M.D. and Virginia E. Johnson. The researchers
tested 382 women and 312 men in more than 10,000 episodes
of sexual activity. They also studied more than 7,500 cycles
(one cycle is an individual episode of sexual activity) of
female sexual response during intercourse. They were the first
researchers to put forth a four stage model that described
and explained these natural physiologic changes. The four
stages are excitation, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.
The LVR program was developed by listening and caring about
the needs of women in this area of sexual gratification. The
Laser Rejuvenation Institute integrated the historical research
of Masters and Johnson into the ultimate individual design
of each of the laser surgical procedures. Women of the world
inspired all of the surgical designs in these pioneering procedures
that enhance their sexual experiences.
Women's Sex Response Cycles
The traditional model of human sexual response implies that
sexual thinking and fantasizing initiates arousal, followed
by orgasm and a phase of "resolution." However,
women identify many reasons they are sexual over and beyond
inherent sexual drive or "hunger." Women tell of
wanting to increase emotional closeness, commitment, sharing,
tenderness, and tolerance, and to show the partner that he
or she has been missed (emotionally or physically). Such intimacy-based
reasons motivate the woman to find a way to become sexually
aroused. This arousal is not spontaneous but triggered by
deliberately sought sexual stimuli—including the behavior
between (potential) partners, conversation, music, written
or visual eroticism, or direct physical stimulation. A model
of women's sexual response has been proposed, which reflects
the key roles of emotional intimacy and sexual stimuli, and
is depicted in Figure 1 alongside the traditional model of
Masters, Johnson, and Kaplan.
Once arousal is accessed, it will foster sexual desire to
continue the experience for sexual reasons, in addition to
the intimacy reasons. It will also allow previously unwelcome
stimuli, specifically to genitalia and breast, to now be enjoyed.
Early on in relationships, or midcycle, or after a partner
has been absent emotionally or physically, or with no particular
pattern, women may sense "spontaneous desire." There
is need to experience sexual arousal through partnered sex,
self-stimulation, or fantasy for the pleasure and well-being
that it generates. The blended cycles as shown in Figure 2
can be envisaged. The frequency of women's autoerotic practices
is low compared to men's but is highly variable. Despite extremely
rare sexual thoughts, women can be entirely responsive.
Most women do not have a strong or accurate
appreciation of the degree of congestion within their vulval
erectile tissue. Sensations of "throbbing" or "pulsing"
may be entirely absent despite healthy sexual experiences.
Indeed, women commonly are only aware of a small component
of their erectile tissue—the shaft and head of the clitoris
and unaware of the extensive bulbar and periurethral structures.
Indirect awareness of erectile tissue engorgement stems from
a woman's increased sexual sensations from direct genital
stimulation, causing an urge to receive more of the same.
All laser vaginal rejuvenation procedures can be performed
in conjunction with other cosmetic surgeries. The most common
procedures including liposuction, breast augmentation and
rhinoplasty can be simultaneously performed by our plastic
surgeons.
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