On the part of the woman, the orgasm causes no corresponding emission of fluid, of any sort, that is jetted forth as is the semen.  Yet the spasmodic action of the sexual parts, so far as nervous explosions are concerned, is exactly like that of her partner.  Palpitation follows palpitation, through all the sexual area; the mouth of the womb opens and closes convulsively, the vagina dilates and contracts again and again, and the vulva undergoes similar actions.  The sensations are all of the most delectable nature, the whole of the woman’s body being thrilled, over and over, again and again, with delights inexpressible.  This, however, seems to be the entire mission of the orgasm in woman. It has nothing whatever to do with conception; though many people, especially young husbands who know just a little about the phenomenon, believe that it is an essential to pregnancy. But such is by no means the case. All that is needed to bring about conception in a woman is the presence of the ovum in the uterus, and its meeting semen there, and so becoming fertilized.  So far as becoming pregnant is concerned, the woman need have no pleasure at all in the act of coitus.  Indeed, women have been made pregnant by securing fresh semen from some man and injecting it into the vagina with an ordinary female syringe!

The false idea, which largely prevails, and which usually takes the form that there is no danger or possibility of conception unless the orgasm is simultaneous on the part of the man and woman, has caused many a woman to become pregnant when she thought such a result to be impossible, because she and her lover did not “spend” at the same instant.  For the same reason, many a young husband has impregnated his wife when he least expected to do so, thinking that because he alone experienced the orgasm, that therefore conception was impossible.

Again, there are many married men and women who do not know that it is possible for a woman to experience an orgasm at all!  The writer once knew a case of this kind, where a husband and wife, most intelligent and well cultivated people, lived together for twenty years, and to whom were born six children, who, at the end of that time were wholly unaware of such possibility!  They afterwards discovered it by accident, as it were, and after that enjoyed its delights for many years.  There are some, yea, many, women who never experience this sensation at all, but of this more will be said later.

All these phenomena seem to indicate the fact that, so far as women are concerned, the orgasm is entirely for her delectation and delight.  It forms no part of the act of conception, and its only possible function, beyond that of pleasure, is that, because of the exceedingly delightful sensations it produces, it may lure women to engage in coitus when, but for this fact, they would not do so, and that it thus increases the possibility of women becoming mothers.  Indeed, there is no stronger temptation to a woman to run the risk of becoming pregnant than her desire to experience an orgasm!  But more of this later.