5 Sex 'Myths' That Are Totally True (And 4 'Facts' That Are Nonsense)

2. Exercise Can Give You Orgasms

True

Don't know about you, but this rumour definitely did the rounds in my secondary school a couple of times, usually involving PE in some way and plenty of giggling.

However, there may have been a grain of truth in the wild conjecture, as it turns out that a sizeable percentage of women have experienced an Exercise Induced Orgasm, or coregasm if you happen to work for Cosmo.

A 2011 study is thought to be one of the first formal investigations directly into the phenomenon, but the coregasm gets a mention as far back as 1953. The best types of exercise to induce an EIO appear to be abdominal which took 45% of the vote for tingliest exercise (not the technical term), but of the women surveyed 19% linked it with cycling/spinning, 9.3% identified climbing, 7% preferred weightlifting and the rest were spread out over exercises such as yoga, swimming and aerobics.

It's not totally certain what causes the reaction, as the study found that they are rarely linked to sexual thoughts at the time, the paper even challenges the idea that the female orgasm is an inherently sexual experience, and rather that we simply learn to link the two.

Either way, it certainly makes the time at the gym fly by.