THE MECHANISMS OF DESIRE AND PLEASURE: THE EXCITEMENT AND THE PLATEAU PHASES

Posted by admin on March 12, 2009

The excitement phase

This is the foreplay stage, when the woman’s lover kisses and fondles her, or she fondles herself, on all the erogenous zones of her body. It is too often forgotten, too, that the caresses the woman gives her partner, especially with her mouth around his genitals, contribute to his arousal too.

During this phase, there is a rush of blood into the whole genital area. The inner labia and the clitoris swell slightly. The vagina increases in length and the opening gets larger. Natural lubricant wets the vaginal walls.

Sometimes other parts of the body redden briefly, too. The erogenous zones become more sensitive and the first diffuse sensations of pleasure begin to be felt.

The plateau phase

This is the phase before orgasm, and it must never be neglected. Very many men penetrate their partner as soon as her vagina feels wet enough to make it easy. On the contrary: both partners should carry on stimulating each other at this stage. Men often misinterpret certain signs. For example, some sec the retraction of the clitoris into its hood as equivalent to the detumescence of the penis after orgasm – but in fact it is a sign that orgasm is approaching.

This plateau phase, so often neglected, is of great importance for two reasons:

If the penis is introduced into the vagina too early on, at the beginning of the plateau stage, the woman’s pleasure is very likely to be incomplete. She will rarely reach an intense orgasm.

This is the phase that can give most pleasure to experienced partners. Orgasm itself is very short-lived for a man and fairly brief for a woman – and it cannot be prolonged. But both partners can adjust their caresses at the plateau stage to spin out the intense pleasure it brings – a lighter touch will help postpone the “point of no return” beyond which orgasm inevitably comes only too fast.

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