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sao123

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they both start with some sort of stimuli/irritant, proceed with a building phase, then eventually a full body spasm, and release/recovery phase.

I imagine there is a hormonal difference in the process, but is there more?
 

Jeff7

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Originally posted by: scott
sao123,

My sympathies for your ignorance.

They just ain't the same!!

But if they are, either he's got really lousy orgasms, or else he keeps a shaker of pepper handy all the time.


Another difference: A sneeze is only one or two spasms, usually.
 

sao123

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I see all the morons came out of the woodwork tonight...


there was an actual study performed on this subject, and it was found that both event seem interlinked between brain wave responces. I was hoping someone intelligent might have further insight.
 

WildHorse

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Originally posted by: sao123
I see all the morons came out of the woodwork tonight...


there was an actual study performed on this subject, and it was found that both event seem interlinked between brain wave responces. I was hoping someone intelligent might have further insight.

Well now, sao123, that's not a very nice attitude.

 

AbAbber2k

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There is no "recovery" phase associated with sneezing... at least not in the sense of a male orgasm. As long as the stimulus is there and is strong enough you could sneeze all day long. If you've just busted and you're deep in the refractory period (the time during which a cell/excitable membrane is unresponsive to stimuli), no amount of stimulus is going to let you go again until that period has ended (the time of which varies dramatically). Females, however, don't experience the same refractory period as males. Sensitivity associated with clitoral stimulation is possible, but that doesn't prevent further orgasm (if you know what you're doing ).

That and hormone release are probably the biggest differences. Oh, and sneezing doesn't make me hungry or sleepy (though those probably fall under the hormone category).

This thread makes me lol btw
 

DrPizza

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I do recall reading something about what Sao is referring to. For the life of me, I wouldn't even know where to begin looking for more information.
 

Gibsons

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IIRC, both are tiggered through the vagus. How significant that is I don't know.
 

Gigantopithecus

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Nah, neither are triggered by the Vagus, but the Vagus has a role in both of them.

The nervous pathway for sneezing is:
Sensory (afferent) stimulus from the nasal cavity is carried along the nasociliary branch of the Ophthalmic (V1) division of the Trigeminal cranial nerve (CN V). The motor (efferent) impulse is carried by a number of different cranial nerves:
a. Vagus (CN X - causes contraction of the diaphragm muscle, as well as muscles of the larynx & pharynx)
b. The medial pterygoid branch of the Mandibular division of the Trigeminal cranial nerve (causes contraction of the tensor tympani & tensor veli palatini muscles)
-contraction of tensor tympani basically keeps the force of the sneeze from messing with the sensitive parts of the inner ear
-contraction of tensor veli palatini helps mitigate the force transmitted to the nasal cavity from entering the eustachian tube)
c. The branchial motor component of the Facial cranial nerve (CN VII - causes contraction of multiple muscles)
-contraction of stapedius helps to keep the stapes (one of the inner ear bones) from getting messed up
-contraction of stylohyoid & digastric helps stabilize the throat & neck
-contraction of orbicularis oculi makes your eyes close (so they don't pop out of your head!)
-contraction of various other facial muscles produces the wince
d. The Glossopharyngeal cranial nerve (CN IX) is probably also involved since its branchial motor branch innervates stylopharyngeus (contraction of which helps stabilize the neck and throat)
e. Various upper thoracic nerves are probably also involved since they make the muscles of the upper chest & back contract.

Orgasm is much more complicated in its neuronal pathways, since the pathway & muscles involved in penile & clitoral erection are different from the pathway & muscles involved in male ejaculation; the pathway for orgasm itself is also different. You can find these on the web, just google "nervous pathway orgasm" or "nervous pathway ejaculation", etc. Sorry for kinda ducking this part of your question but I know a lot more about cranial nerves than other nerves.

As for the involvement of the Vagus nerve in orgasm, mammals are unique in that our Vagus allows us to disengage our cardiac output (read: heart rate) from the external environment & modulate it according to the social environment (in other words, doing things in a social setting, or in this case, doing people, can cause our heart rates to rise or fall, which is necessary for knocking boots).
 

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kudos to you gigantopithecus!

There are huge differences between a sneeze and an orgasm, from the emotional (read limbic) response (which is physiological by the way), down to the basic muscular spasms they create.

Arousal (aka erection of specialized tissue), rising phase, and plateu are all mediated by the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest) through afferent nerves from the sacral spinal chord. The actual climax and associated orgasm (though this section is but a part of the entire phenomenon) are triggered by the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) through thoracic and lumbar afferents (or is it efferents? I always get those two flipped round.). The end result in males is a characteristic series of muscular contractions (spasms if you will) that occur ruoughly .7 seconds apart and may last anywhere from 2 to 10 seconds if you're lucky.

The sneeze is a single massive spasm of the diaghram and intercostals resulting in the expulsion of an offending partical from the system. I beleive we can all agree that sneezes are far less plesant than orgasms.
 

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Originally posted by: sao123
I see all the morons came out of the woodwork tonight...


there was an actual study performed on this subject, and it was found that both event seem interlinked between brain wave responces. I was hoping someone intelligent might have further insight.

Aside from the nervous responses, There's also a variety of different and significant hormonal responses, some of which we understand, some of which we don't. The cuddling phase, for instance, is directly related to a hormone release, and isn't targetted only at the partner. A woman will be significantly more open and pleasent in any social situation afterwards.

A sneeze OTOH doesn't generate any hormonal response, at best it might generate some small focusing of the immune system.
 

alzan

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Physiological responses aside, I have never wanted a cigarette or wanted to sleep after I sneeze.

alzan
 

WHAMPOM

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Can you imagine twenty orgasms in a row. Sneezing that many times almost kills you.
 

StopSign

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Originally posted by: AbAbber2k
There is no "recovery" phase associated with sneezing...
There is a very long recovery phase if you injure yourself from the sneeze. It could even be infinitely long if you die.
 
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