A sexologist has revealed there are 15 different types of orgasm that you can enjoy when doing the deed.

And no, you’re not to be embarrassed if that’s left you a little wide-eyed and wondering why you have so many knowledge gaps outside of just thinking there was one way to achieve blast off.

Jessica Toscano, who is qualified in all things sex and relationships, has sat down and revealed each one so as to greater educate yourself and maybe spice things up a little bit with your significant other (or just yourself, we’re not judging anyone).

Toscano herself said people are often ‘shocked’ when she asks them which of the 15 kinds of orgasm they’re trying to hit, given the knowledge gap that exists on the subject.

“At its core, an orgasm is a natural physiological response triggered by external stimuli, which causes chemicals like dopamine (the ‘feel-good’ hormone) and oxytocin (the ‘love hormone’) to flood the brain,” she wrote for MailOnline.

“That might sound complicated – but the result is simple: an unmatchable feeling of euphoria.”

Ultimately all 15 types fall into two categories, those that are sexual and the ones that are not. And the issue is a lot more complicated for women, Toscano says, with it a ‘far more mysterious’ journey of discovery.

On the other hand, for men who aren’t taking part in No Nut November, it is most often associated with predictable, genital stimulation.

Here’s all 15 types of orgasms that people go after. Buckle up:

15 types, you say? (Getty Stock Image)

Clitoral orgasm

First up is the clitoral orgasm, which is probably the most straightforward and obvious one for a woman so very little needs explaining there.

With more than 10,000 nerve endings in the clitoris, it has more than double the pleasure points than the end of a man’s penis.

Vaginal orgasm

After the most obvious form, there is what Toscano calls the ‘elusive and highly coveted’ vaginal orgasm.

This is something just 20 percent of women can achieve. According to research, you’re more likely to achieve this with a long-term partner and while having a clitoral orgasm at the same time.

G-spot

Does it exist? Where is it? Scientists still debate this to this day, given an actual lack of biological or anatomical data to prove it is a real thing.

“It is thought by many to be in the first third of the front vaginal wall,” Toscano explained.

“Though its precise location has yet to be proven, a 2021 analysis of 31 studies suggested that most women have benefited from its stimulation.”

Thumbs up (Getty Stock Image)

Cervical orgasm

OK, bit of a biology lesson. The cervix is part of a woman’s body and is located at the very top of the vaginal canal.

And while they might seem like a bit of an ‘unusual’ spot, Toscano says, studies find that when stimulated, the brain comes alive.

Not just that, it lights up parts of the brain that don’t get activated through clitoral or vaginal stimulation, meaning it is an altogether different experience.

Female ejaculation

You’ve probably heard of this via the more informal description of ‘squirting’, it is something achieved by women who involuntarily release a clear fluid when reaching a moment of ‘intense physical arousal’, Toscano explains.

The fluid is thought to be a mixture of secretions from the Skene’s gland and urine.

It’s something not all women can achieve, mind, with up to 54 percent having experienced it.

Different stimuli achieve different orgasms, research says (Getty Stock Image)

Anal

One for both men and women, this is achieved by stimulation around the anus, resulting in pelvic muscle contractions.

Toscano says that women find it to be longer lasting than the clitoral or vaginal alternatives.

Prostate

Located a few inches inside the rectum, the prostate is a sensitive area of a man which many call the P-spot.

When stimulated, the ejaculatory ducts (the area that carries semen and prostatic fluid from the testes to the urethra) can result in euphoria.

Nipple

A major area of sexual gratification, people report having success with nipple stimulation due to how many nerve endings there are in them.

Often people combine them with other forms of stimulation, but Toscano reports they can be used to achieve orgasm by themselves.

Some orgasms are achieved easier with a longer term partner (Getty Stock Image)

Multiple

This happens when someone achieves orgasms back-to-back, with it experienced by less than 10 percent of men in their twenties and less than seven percent in their thirties.

Women, Toscano says, achieve it far easier, given that men need a resting or cooling-off period in between.

Erogenous

This is where pleasure points across the body are stimulated in the same way nipple orgasms are achieved.

We’re talking about areas such as the lips, the mouth, the back of the neck, the inner thigh, and the pubic hairline.

Blended

When a number of pleasure areas are stimulated and simultaneously result in climax, you experience a ‘blended’ orgasm.

The sex expert notes: “Since touching various erogenous zones can stimulate different areas of the brain, this type of orgasm has the potential to feel more intense than other forms.”

Not every kind of orgasm is sexual (Getty Stock Image)

Exercise

A rather different point of call altogether, exercise is cited as the reason for some achieving orgasm.

It is all to do with muscle contractions and is most often associated with exercise that engages your core muscles, such as yoga or climbing.

“One study found 9 percent of people have experienced this phenomenon at least once in their lifetimes, typically between the ages of 16 and 22,” Toscano says.

Energetic

Another non-sexual encounter, energetic orgasms are caused by a flush of sexual energy that takes over your body.

This can be achieved by imagining you’re on the receiving end of sexual gratification, with parts of the brain lighting up in the same way they do when actually receiving it.

Breastfeeding

The non-sexual encounters continue, with some studies saying breastfeeding can result in pleasure for a woman.

One study, published in European Gynecology & Obstetrics, found that women had reported experiencing an exciting sensation while feeding their newborns, though it was rarely described as ‘sexual’.

For those who did feel more aroused, they described it as a ‘high, like when you’re in foreplay’.

Sleeping

Where the brain wanders and often referred to as a ‘wet dream’ during those awkward sex education classes you had in high school.

You don’t require physical touch to get to orgasm due to your brain being more than alive during its rest period.

It is often related to hormones running wild. At the same time, dreaming of something rather vivid is sure to help you get there.

Warning: this article discusses the loss of a child which some readers may find distressing.

It can be extremely difficult to admit you’re an addict – especially if your vice has pretty much become a way of life.

Former sex addict Laurie Jade Woodruff spent 20 years living through an intimacy obsession which she claims totally consumed her.

Over two decades, she embarked on various toxic relationships but didn’t realise her acts were ‘unhealthy’ until she experienced a devastating loss.

Laurie Jade Woodruff was addicted to sex for 20 years (Youtube/LADbible)

“When I was younger it was just really fun,” Woodruff told LADbibleTV earlier this month.

“I loved it, I was just doing and doing loads of crazy things and having loads of new experiences. And in the beginning, like it always is, I suppose with every addiction.”

Despite allegedly having fun, Woodruff confessed her craving for sex had started to become a real issue when she began attracting ‘bad’ people.

“I think that’s when I knew,” she claimed.

“If you’re not getting that attention all the time, that’s your fix… if you choose people who aren’t right for you then you don’t have to commit yourself.

“I think that’s ultimately what’s at the core of it. I think it’s, that you’re scared to let yourself be vulnerable and love properly and be loved because you don’t feel like you deserve it.”

The woman claimed the death of her son sent her spiralling into ‘codependency’ (Youtube/LADbible)

Woodruff went on to say that, while her life was ‘out of control’ in her 20s, she was relatively content because she didn’t have any real ‘responsibilities’.

However, she later suffered heartbreak when her son of seven weeks died, leading to her addiction getting worse.

“I got diagnosed with PTSD after that anyway because he was in my arms when he died so after that life was pretty bad for a long time.

“That’s when I started to get really codependent and try and reach out for relationships and then I went on loads of sex binges.”

When asked how many people she was sleeping with on a weekly basis after losing her son, Woodruff admitted: “I don’t know. 20 or something like that in a week.”

Following her infant’s death, Woodruff was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and has gone on to embark on a journey of recovery.

Furthermore, she has offered some sage advice to others who are currently in the throes of sex addiction.

“I want other people to know that they can have the life they want. Don’t spend all your time in that addiction.

“Addiction distracts you from your life’s purpose,” she added. “You’ve got that energy to go and be successful in whatever that is that you’re meant to do.”

If you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, or would like to seek support or further information, you can contact Sex Addicts Anonymous on their website, where email addresses and phone numbers – including a dedicated women’s line and LGBTQ+ contact – can be found.

A sex expert has busted some myths about the no-pants dance which you might have been thinking about.

It turns out that people think about sex quite a lot, and especially worry about whether they’re doing it right or not compared to everyone else.

Sex is a topic upon which the human race can be both simultaneously tight-lipped and talkative.

You probably wouldn’t just start asking people you come across in everyday life how much sex they’re having each week, but there’s plenty of experts who know a thing or two about a thing or two who’ll happily speak about it.

People would rather have a sex life than be sexless. Well, most people would. (Getty Stock Photo)

One of those is Dr Karen Gurney, clinical psychologist and sex expert, who appeared on the Diary of a CEO podcast to share some of the wisdom she’d learned in over 20 years of helping couples tackle the problems getting in the way of glorious bonking.

They say that comparison is the thief of joy and Dr Gurney wanted to target ‘one of the big myths’ people have about a joyous sex life, and that’s frequency.

She explained that ‘everyone says three times a week’ but denounced that as an ‘urban myth’, saying that people who weren’t banging with such regularity might be feeling like they weren’t getting it on enough.

However, for those relationships where you don’t rock each other’s world three times a week on a consistent basis then fear not, because you aren’t doing it wrong.

Dr Gurney explained: “It’s actually drastically different than that, the average times people in the UK and it’s replicated around the world.

How many times should you be going at it per week? (Getty Stock Images)

“What’s fascinating is we’re using frequency as a yardstick of a good sex life. There’s no correlation between the frequency of sex and sexual satisfaction.

“You could be having sex once a year that completely blows your socks off, makes you feel alive, makes you feel super connected, that’s really exploratory where you lose yourself in it.

“That is better than having sex once a day where you’re not enjoying it, your mind’s not in it, it’s not pleasurable, you’re feeling disconnected. You’re feeling awkward.”

The doc explained that the average British couple was doing the horizontal bop about three times a month, but digging into the data showed that you got that figure because Brits were bonking on a wide range of frequencies.

There were relationships that hadn’t had sex in months ‘and were quite happy with that’ as well as ‘plenty of people having sex more’.

Clinical psychologist and sex expert Dr Karen Gurney. (Diary of a CEO)

She noted that the truth about how often people were having sex was quite different to people’s perceptions and expectations.

Dr Gurney noted that pretty much everyone wanted to be having ‘more sex, better sex’ than their current status.

One of the main things she identified as making sex worse in relationships was pressure to perform or to meet some kind of expectation.

“Pressure is a total passion killer,” she said, and that the foundation of the problem was not being able to talk about pressures around sex.

Basically, communication is always going to be important in your sex life and you shouldn’t go around worrying that you’re not living up to a sort of standard

Steve-O opened up about how it took a serious health scare for him to realise that he had replaced one addiction with another and needed to seek help.

The Jackass star has been candid about his personal struggles throughout his career, revealing his battles with mental health issues, alcoholism and drug dependency over the years.

His extraordinary fame in the early 2000s alongside the likes of Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Chris Pontius, and Ryan Dunn, left him relying on substances and booze to cope, until he reached his ‘rock bottom’ in 2006.

Steve-O explained that he went to the premiere of the second Jackass film feeling ‘like he was at his funeral’ as he believed it was ‘all downhill from here’.

“We were more out of control with drugs and alcohol and sex than can even be believed,” he said previously. “We were taking the biggest risks, we were doing the craziest stuff, and everything just worked. It was like magic.

“I knew we were never gonna beat that. I was so mad at that red carpet because it felt like it was like the end.”

Steve-O revealed how he realised he was struggling with a sex addiction (YouTube/Steve-O’s Wild Ride)

Two years later in 2008, the stuntman’s Jackass co-stars were forced to ‘stage an intervention’ and Steve-O was placed under an involuntary 72-hour psychiatric hold.

“I’ve been clean and sober ever since then,” he said.

However, it wasn’t smooth sailing from there on out for the comedian, as he began to overdo it in another department.

Steve-O admitted that when he got clean, he began treating women ‘terribly’ and was ‘acting out sexually a lot’.

The fact he had an army of adoring ladies waiting for him each night after his comedy show didn’t help matters, as he just couldn’t resist – and it was one of these females who ultimately helped him realise he had a sex addiction.

During episode 168 of his podcast, Steve-O’s Wild Ride!, which was released in May last year, the 50-year-old opened up about the ‘defining moment’ which made him come to the conclusion that he needed professional help.

“The whole like sex addiction thing…there was this chick that I met after one of my shows, a long time ago.

“This was the beginning of 2013. And she was with a dude and I’m like, ‘Oh, yeah’.

The Jackass star began his sobriety journey in 2008 (Niki Nikolova/FilmMagic)

“She was like stoked to meet me and I’m like, ‘Oh, let me get your number’ – right in front of her dude,” he laughed.

“She gives me her number and I hit her up after, and she’s like, ‘Oh, you know I’m with this dude’. And I was like, ‘Okay, fair enough’. But then like a week or two later, she’s like, ‘I broke up with the dude’.

“I’m like right on, cool, so I fly her out to LA and and we’re doing our thing.

“I remember too, I used to be pretty good about like protection and stuff – in this case, we weren’t. We were just rocking it.”

After a ‘couple days’ of reckless sh*gging, Steve-O decided to do the gentlemanly thing and take his lady friend on a hike up to the Hollywood sign to get an obligatory tourist picture.

And while they were there, she made a comment which ended up changing the course of the daredevil’s life.

Steve-O continued: “She says, ‘You know it’s so weird, that guy I was with, his last relationship before me was with a dude’. And I’m like, ‘Oh’.

“Because now I’m thinking this is high risk for HIV. I’m like spinning and spinning.

“I got back to my apartment and I’m like, ‘I’ve got to walk the dogs‘,” the Jackass legend recalled. “While I’m walking the dogs around the block, I’m just Googling statistics on it.

“I’m freaking out. Then I get back to the pad and I’m like, you know, I’m already in it this far and so…I’m just doing it again.

“While I’m doing it again, I’m thinking like, ‘What is my deal?!’

“That was when I first reached out to someone saying, ‘Hey, you know, I need and I need to get it get a handle on this’.”

After managing to surprise even himself by continuing to have sex with the woman despite being aware of the risk, Steve-O decided this was the tipping point and that he needed to turn his life around.

The funnyman – real name Stephen Gilchrist Glover – revealed that he then began to see a sex therapist, who suggested that he should try and go celibate for around two weeks.

“I was trying it and I couldn’t,” he said on the podcast. “It was this comedy of errors. At the time I was doing stand-up and I was just like getting material out of it, of how impossible it was for me.”

But thankfully, Steve-O managed to stay on the straight and narrow after attending what he described as an ‘outpatient sex addict rehab’ – and incredibly, he went a whopping 431 days without sex after the programme.

“I felt strongly that my mission was to become the man that the love of my life deserves,” he said.

Go Steve-O!