Wait, men fake orgasms?

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This is fairly well known phenomena amongst professional wrestlers. There are even t-shirts made that joke about it.

Not sure the exact reason, maybe something to do with the brain turning off pleasure / pain receptors? Achieving an orgasm will sometimes just not happen unless you exert a huge amount of focus and concentration.

I had done some informal surveys with people who take the same sort of pounding on their bodies: stunt people, professional football and hockey players, UFC fighters. But none have admitted to having the same issue.

While this is an interesting topic, is this hackernews material?

Yes, as you consider it interesting and I do too. "What to Submit - On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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