5 Things That Can Apparently Make Women Orgasm

A new study says women can orgasm from "weight lifting, climbing poles or ropes, yoga, and biking and spinning classes." From photo copiers to Peppermint Patties, here are some other things that aren't sex that can allegedly make you climax.

1. Photo copiers

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A woman named Sarah Carmen claims she has over 200 orgasms a day, triggered by events as mundane as "the rumble of the train, the purr of a hairdryer, or the rhythmic drone of a photo-copier."

2. Stress

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For the sake of this exercise, I polled some female friends about whether they'd experienced these alleged noncoital orgasms. One said she has, a number of times: "If I get very very stressed and upset I will spontaneously have an orgasm without touching myself at all."

3. Riding horses

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So claim ladies in a British Cosmopolitan forum.

4. York Peppermint Patties

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A writer for Nerve said that biting into a Peppermint Patty gave her the sensation that she was "coming like a racehorse."

5. Thinking

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In her book "Bonk," sex writer and researcher Mary Roach interviewed a number of women who said they could get themselves to climax simply by "thinking."