Experts link orgasm during sex to a higher percentage of becoming pregnant. Although yet a controversial issue and aside from the obvious, experts explain how orgasm factors into the baby-making process.
How Orgasm Helps
Glamour cites expert Doctor Joanna Ellington from the UK documentary "The Great Sperm Race" in stating that orgasmic sex increases pregnancy chances. Doctor Jennifer Wider supports the theory by stating that the link between orgasm and pregnancy is logical.
Supposedly orgasm produces strong contractions in the uterus. These contractions induced by orgasm can cause sperm to be transported more quickly through the canal and into the uterus.
Not Just Orgasm
Doctor Jennifer Wider, however, qualifies that fertility is still a main factor to pregnancy. Pregnancy chances are doubled when orgasm from sex happens within the woman's monthly ovulation window.
Stress is also a factor to which Doctor Jennifer Wider called attention. A woman should not stress about achieving orgasm during sex as unnecessary pressure works against conception.
The Anatomy Of Orgasm
A useful understanding for a couple is how orgasm may be achieved differently for each woman depending on anatomy. Health Day reports that female anatomy presupposes the "magic number" of 2.5 centimeters in achieving orgasm easily.
This measurement indicates the distance between the woman's clitoris and urinary tract opening. According to experts, the longer this distance, the more difficulty a woman would have in achieving orgasm through traditional sex.
In such cases, a woman has to have aided stimulation to achieve orgasm. A couple trying to get pregnant with basis on the theory of orgasmic link to pregnancy may have to work around such anatomical condition.
What Nay-Sayers Think
The opposing side to the theory debates that orgasm is immaterial to pregnancy. Numerous women become pregnant without having orgasm to help the conception along.
Currently, neither side has proven the link, or lack it, conclusively. However, the added knowledge on the mechanisms of orgasm and on the dynamism of the female anatomy can only help when planning a pregnancy.
