women do not have a refractory period, and thus can experience a second orgasm soon after the first;

I see that wikipedia is defining refractory period as having to do with male ejaculation, which I guess would mean women wouldn't have one. But there is generally a recovery period, though it may be of short duration, right (which I would have called refractory, by analogy with the neuron)? Otherwise it wouldn't be "soon" but "immediately". How close together do they need to be to be considered "multiple"?

According to the class calulating thingy, secretaries are at the 45th percentile of prestige and actuaries are 43rd. Weird.

'Cuz most people still don't know what actuaries are.

(just a guess.)

Also, has anyone else here read David Foster Wallace's Everything and More? It's about infinity.

I haven't yet, but I plan to.

That's the book I was gonna write, dammit. But DFW has given me an excellent reason to never finish taht Master's thesis.

Las Vegas bakes world's largest cake

Huh. The numbers I saw were closer to 10%. And they're not about how frequent the multiples were. Just that 13% of women were capable. So you see the source of my disagreement.

I was speaking anecdotally when I said "most", and then when I Googled there was (unsurprisingly) little statistical information on the matter. And by "little" I mean only references in articles and narry a study siting to be foud.

Well, they're really the same thing, aren't they? Women can recharge more quickly than men, and some women can go off like machine-gun fire.

That's how I've always understood it.

In the class calculator I was way over educated and way underpaid.

I could have told them that.

this is what happens when I go to lunch.

Multiple orgasms? Lucky girl.

BK. Have it your way.

Hmm. The creepy BK king-guy from the commercials is seeming less creepy in that light....

From britannica.com:

Once the female attains an orgasm, however, she remains sexually excited longer and may experience several successive orgasms, whereas the male is ordinarily unable to experience a second orgasm except after a waiting period

The resolution stage in men contains a refractory period of several minutes to a few hours, during which the man is incapable of further sexual arousal. Women have no such refractory period and can quickly become aroused again from any point in the resolution stage

Is no one else seeing nifty correlations between intermingled discussions of chaos theory and multiple orgasms? It means something.

I mean, something other than that I love all the spicy brains around here.

Hm. I had BK for lunch. I guess I didn't order right.