This is fairly well known phenomena amongst professional wrestlers. There are even t-shirts made that joke about it.
Not sure the exact reason, maybe something to do with the brain turning off pleasure / pain receptors? Achieving an orgasm will sometimes just not happen unless you exert a huge amount of focus and concentration.
I had done some informal surveys with people who take the same sort of pounding on their bodies: stunt people, professional football and hockey players, UFC fighters. But none have admitted to having the same issue.
Yes, as you consider it interesting and I do too. "What to Submit - On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
[+] [-] rograndom|13 years ago|reply
Not sure the exact reason, maybe something to do with the brain turning off pleasure / pain receptors? Achieving an orgasm will sometimes just not happen unless you exert a huge amount of focus and concentration.
I had done some informal surveys with people who take the same sort of pounding on their bodies: stunt people, professional football and hockey players, UFC fighters. But none have admitted to having the same issue.
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