Science: Orgasm Different in Intercourse and Masturbation

This study confirms my own observations of the difference between solo and dual sexual cultivation.

The yin-yang balance of energetic exchange is much easier with a couple, and excessive solo practice can lead, at least in males, to an excess yang condition.

This can be compensataed by practices that mix the earth’s jing with human jing chi (sexual energy),
which is why I teach them in my healing love courses. It is also why sexual qigong practices help to keep the balance, even though as humans we tend to be naturally unbalanced in favor of yin or yang. That imbalance is not gender defined, i.e. some men are very yin and don’t produce the excess yang effect through masturbation. and I am assuming the v.v. is true for women.
michael

SEX WITH A PARTNER IS 400% BETTER
New Scientist
February 22, 2006

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18925405.900

Lovers know only too well that men usually need a “recovery period” after
orgasm, and that sexual intercourse with orgasm is more satisfying than an
orgasm from masturbation alone. Now scientists think the two phenomena might
be linked.

Following orgasm, the hormone prolactin is released into the bloodstream in
both men and women. The hormone makes us feel satiated by countering the
effect of dopamine, which is released during sexual arousal.

Stuart Brody of the University of Paisley, UK, and Tillmann Krüger of the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, measured blood prolactin
levels in male and female volunteers who watched erotic films before
engaging in masturbation or sexual intercourse to orgasm in the laboratory.

Surprisingly, after orgasm from sexual intercourse, the increase in blood
prolactin levels is 400 per cent higher in both sexes compared with after
orgasm from masturbation (Biological Psychology, vol 71, p 312).

This explains why orgasm from intercourse is more satisfying than
masturbation, says Brody. Since elevated levels of prolactin have been
linked to erectile dysfunction, this may also explain why most men need a
recovery period after sex.