Breast orgasms, are relatively rare among most women. But for those that are able to obtain them, this kind of orgasm is created from the stimulation of a woman's breast. Not all women experience this effect when the breasts are stimulated, however many women claim that the stimulation of the breast area during sexual intercourse and foreplay, or just the simple act of having their breasts fondled, has created mild to intense orgasms.

According to one study that questioned 213 women, 29% of them had experienced a this type of orgasm at one time or another, while another states says that only 1% of all women experience these type orgasms.

This seems to vary for different women. An orgasm is believed to occur in part because of the hormone oxytocin, which is produced in the body during sexual excitement and arousal. It has also been scientifically proven that oxytocin is produced when a woman's nipples are stimulated and become erect.

Author: Levin, Roy1

Source: Sexual & Relationship Therapy, Volume 21, Number 2, May 2006 , pp. 237-249(13)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

 

Abstract:
The male or female breast/nipple/areola complex arises from a common mammary stem cell and develops similarly in the foetus and during infancy. At puberty the male's breasts remain rudimentary but the female's develop further, mainly through oestrogen and progesterone stimulation, and become more sensitive. Female breasts serve both nutritive and sexual functions, unlike other primates they develop at puberty before lactation is necessary. Their sexual attraction is through size, shape and their areolae but also, when unrestrained, their jiggling movements. Small breasts are more sensitive than large. Pregnancy and lactation increase their size. Breast feeding releases oxytocin (milk release) and prolactin (milk secretion), other functions have been proposed for the latter. The pigmented areola contains tubercles of Montgomery that secrete a fluid protecting the skin and creating an olfactory signal for baby and possibly lover; areola corrugation immediately after orgasm physically signals that orgasm has occurred. Male and female (non-pregnant) nipple stimulation has been claimed to induce prolactin secretion but confirmation is needed. Young adult women and men report that breast stimulation not only induces their sexual arousal but enhances it when already aroused.