Sex expert reveals the 9 different types of orgasms women can achieve

According to a sex expert, women can experience nine different types of orgasms, and a few of them might come as a surprise to you.

The female body has long been misunderstood - largely because it hasn’t been studied much - and mostly, the sex organs were at the forefront of this confusion.

Orgasms happen for most women, but usually, you consider whether they are from two sources. However, you might be surprised to know that the female body is capable of pulling orgasms from anywhere, or so it seems.

What’s even more strange is that some of those orgasms can occur outside of the vagina.

Before you start asking questions, or worse - freaking out - here's what you need to know, all thanks to Gigi Engle, sexologist and author of Kink Curious.

Sex expert Gigi Engle revealed how women orgasm (Getty Stock Images)

Clitoral Orgasm

Okay, so this shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone, considering a study published in The Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy found that nearly 37 percent of American women need clitoral stimulation to reach climax.

However, there’s a reason why women may need more focus in this area to orgasm, rather than just internally.

Engle revealed to Metro that there are ‘more than 10,000 nerves in the clitoris,’ which can be stimulated using toys, fingers, grinding and mouths, and expecting a woman to orgasm via internal stimulation, she says, is like ‘rubbing a man’s ball sack and expecting them to orgasm’.

‘Basically, it can happen for some, but not the majority,’ she concluded.

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Vaginal G-spot orgasm

So, while we all know what the G-spot is, there have been some misconceptions about where exactly it is.

You might imagine a little button inside of the vaginal canal, but according to Engle, it’s more of a ‘walnut’ texture which can be found around the ‘structural intersection of the vagina, the urethral sponge, and the clitoris'.

“The clit actually reaches inside the body back towards the anus, and you can find it by hooking up with your fingers behind the pubic bone and feeling for a walnut textured area, that’s the spot,” she explained, revealing that if you stimulate it with fingers, a sex toy, or penis, you might even experience ‘squirting’.

This is ‘where liquid from the urethral sponge is released, or female ejaculation when the skene’s glands (two glands near the urethra also considered the female prostate) are stimulated and release a prostate-like fluid'.

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Sleepgasm

If you’ve never experienced this phenomenon, it’s what would be known in male-terms as a ‘wet dream’.

Basically, you orgasm in your dream.

According to the sexpert: “This can happen because of a build up of sexual tension in the body reaching crescendo when you’re sleeping."

Calling it ‘very normal’, she explained that watching porn or listening to audio porn before you sleep can help you to build up this tension, for release when you’re sleeping.

Just don’t orgasm before you sleep, as it’ll use up your ‘reserves’.

The anus can produce an orgasm too (Getty Stock Images)

Anal orgasms

Okay, so this one was also a surprise to me.

Apparently, the anus can ‘feel immensely pleasurable to stimulate’, and anal penetration can actually stimulate the g-spot because of the close proximity of the areas.

This can then result in an orgasm from anal play.

Urethral can be done, but be careful (Getty Stock Images)

Urethral orgasms

Warning: This type of orgasm can be a risk ‘for infection and UTIs’, which Engle says, ‘you don’t want to be messing around with that.’

A urethral orgasm happens when someone opens your urethral opening and plays with it.

But it can be ‘quite painful’ for some, and ‘sensitive and orgasmic' for others.

“If you’re interested I would make sure you’re using a very clean toy or freshly washed hands, and you’re only stimulating that area very gently,” she revealed. “Don’t put anything inside it, that could really hurt you, but you can stimulate the opening.”

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A-spot orgasm

Nope, this isn’t another name for the g-spot. In fact, this is a lot deeper than that area.

According to Engle, the a-spot is a place you can find just before the cervix, and near the belly button at the ‘anterior fornix erogenous zone’.

This ‘requires deep penetration’, but once you find it, it can be quite pleasurable.

According to underwear brand, Ann Summers: “One or two inches in, you should be able to feel a patch of spongey tissue – the G-spot. From here, you will need to push a couple of inches deeper.

“Towards the back of the vagina, you should feel a firmer spot, at which point you will not be able to penetrate further. This is your cervix. Your A spot is also located in this area.”

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Cervical orgasm

Now, the cervical orgasm is usually or those who enjoy the ‘pounding sensation against the cervix’, and a pressure-like sensation.

It’s something that can be easily achieved for some, as a study of 132 women once found that cervical stimulation contributed to the orgasms of 46 percent of participants.

Per the expert: “The cervix doesn’t have touch sensitive nerve endings in the way the clitoris has, but it has pressure sensitive nerve endings, so people who really enjoy stimulation that feels like pressure are more likely to prefer this orgasm.”

However, you won’t want to ‘start pounding away at it’ as soon as you start, because the cervix is deeper than the g-spot and sensitive.

Instead, she suggests getting a ‘g-spot wand’ and massaging the area along with some clitoral stimulation.

Even nipples can produce results (Getty Stock Images)

Nipple orgasm

Yes, some people actually do experience orgasms via nipple stimulation.

In fact, it can feel like a full-body clitoral orgasm because it ‘lights up the same place in the brain as when your clitoris is stimulated’ at the ‘genital cortex’.

According to the expert: “When nipples are stimulated it will be interpreted as sexual stimulation, which is why some women can orgasm from it, but it’s highly subjective.”

But if you want to attempt it, she suggests using a mouth, a clit sucking toy, nipple clamps, or hands.

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Core orgasm

Having a core orgasm, is also known as a ‘coregasm’ in the gym world.

It may sound strange, but some women have reported orgasming when working out their core, and this is because they are using their pelvic floor.

According to the sexpert, if you are exerting your pelvic floor during your core workouts, ‘your brain can interpret this as sexual stimulation’.

She added: “Again you’re building up that sexual tension in the pelvic region which can get you to orgasm.”

Mmm, maybe try this at your home gym?