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One of the curiosities about sexuality that I have heard most throughout my career as a sexologist refers to the subjective perception of orgasm or, in other words, how others feel their orgasms. "Will they live them the same way I do?" we ask ourselves.

It is also very common that desire to know how the other gender lives it. Before entering into the subject, it should be remembered that our society has been built in binary format, (male / female, male / female) and the differentiation between genders is a constant in the study of sexuality, as it happens in many other areas of human study.

There is a special curiosity, and understandable, among people who have never managed to reach the orgasm that they usually are, usually women, (around 40% of women confess never to have experienced climax, a percentage that rises to 70%, during genital sex with men; a phenomenon that does not exist in homosexual relationships, or during autoerotic or masturbation).

This alarming issue has given rise to a new gender gap: the 'orgasmic gap'. Although there is a small percentage of men who do not reach orgasm (estimated at 1%), this is associated with very different reasons, usually medical and linked to stress.

In any case, curiosity is human and orgasm is pleasure, who does not want to know how others enjoy or enjoy? Although familiar to most adults, the visual representation of an orgasm has been a difficult puzzle to decipher... until now!

After Lovehoney Group launched the first sexual wellness space in the Metaverse in 2022, Womanizer, one of its world-leading pleasure brands, is once again at the forefront of technical innovation with the first AI-generated images of real orgasms.

Womanizer breaks the barriers of imagination and technology, to offer this long-awaited visual interpretation of orgasms, giving life to ten images, five of which capture the essence of the female climax and many others delve into the masculine.

Image of a female orgasm.

Elisabeth Neumann, sexologist at Lovehoney and Director of User Research, states that "orgasms can be powerful, intense and shocking, while others are soft, tickling or surprising. In any case, they are impossible to ignore! It's a feeling that many experience, but translating those personal sensations into art takes intimacy and pleasure to a whole new level."

Image of a male orgasm.

How do we imagine orgasm? The orgasmic popular imaginary has been based on stereotypes, created and transmitted socially through very different ways. Some of them are commercial cinema, with its romantic films, but also another more explicit genre such as adult cinema, or pornography, where fiction is the basis of its contents although it is shown as the expression of real sexuality. And I am afraid that, both genders, are a source of confusion among viewers regarding the human sexual response, both genital and affective.

In this sense, Womanizer is not only bringing orgasms to life, but it is also shaking up the old, hackneyed metaphors that have given us a limited view of pleasure. In new research conducted by the company in the United Kingdom, respondents were asked to describe an orgasm. The most popular responses to rate it were: "volcanic eruption", "fireworks" and "shooting star".

Although orgasm has not yet been fully realized, the efforts that have been made consist of old sexist clichés with which, unfortunately, we are all familiar, such as flowers for women and storms for men.

These images recreated with AI, however, will take us away from clichés and allow us to discover the orgasmic diversity that the human species shows, contemplating their possible differences in terms of gender, but we will also be able to observe their individual differences because, as Neumann clarifies: "Orgasms are as unique as fingerprints: a mixture of colors, energies and emotions".

How were they made? Creating the art of orgasm is an exciting journey that combines science and sensations. Ten anonymous volunteers – five men and five women – were the protagonists. These people wore ECG sensors during their most intimate moments to capture everyheartbeat, every shock and every moment of release while using a Womanizer Pleasure Air toy or an Arcwave male masturbator.

With this valuable data in its hands, Womanizer has collaborated with software engineer Vika Shcherbak and developer Noam Rubin. Harnessing the immense power of Artificial Intelligence, they transformed raw physiological data into a series of ten amazing visualizations, turning reality into imagination. Each piece is a living testimony to the extraordinary interaction between body and mind, and orgasm. Neumann adds: "Every orgasm is unique, so it's exciting to use real data from real orgasms and ask the AI to turn it into an image.

However, it is interesting to note that AI continues to show a gender bias in the representation of female orgasm, with more traditionally "feminine" colors. This reflectsthe extent to which AI is shaped and influenced by social norms and stereotypes, not staying out of them but being able to reproduce them."

How would you represent your orgasms? You can cheer up and paint it. It sure looks great on the bedroom wall!

Ana Sierra is a psychologist and sexologist.