Science of Orgasm

Today on Eros and Thanatos, my blog on the Forbidden Fiction site, I posted about the scientific support for the idea of orgasm as "the little death":

A good orgasm makes me stupid until I get over it, and I often get a headache afterwards. This has not stopped me from seeking that moment of profound self-forgetting.

This study by researchers at the University Medical Center Groningen describes what might be happening.

Read the full post here.