While many women in Nigeria and the world would do anything to have an orgasm during sex, Kim Ramsey, a 44-year old nurse, is in agony as she orgasms up to 100 times per day at the slightest trigger.
She feels constantly aroused and even the slightest pelvic movement would cause her to climax.
She orgasms while doing simple housework or when riding on a train or even in a car and she says she is in pains as the number of orgasms she experiences a day makes her tired, exhausted and prevents her from having a normal relationship.
Ms. Kim Ramsey is suffering from an incurable Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder, a rare health problem which some experts say happens to some women.
The disorder provokes the same sensation like the one experienced during sexual desires and fantasies, but it is not actually based on any sexual desire, thoughts or behaviour, and it is unconnected to libido according to experts, who also explained that any pressure on the genitals can result in increased intensity and also bring on the urge to urinate for women with this condition.
Ms. Ramsey, who resides at Montclair, New Jersey, is believed to have developed the incurable disorder in 2001 when she accidentally fell down from a staircase leading to what experts call a Tarlov cyst on her spine, at the particular point where a woman’s orgasm originates.
She laments that while other women wonder how have an orgasm, she wonders how to stop hers, saying she first noticed the problem in 2008 after she had sex with a new boyfriend.
The Daily Mail quoted her as saying: “I had constant orgasms for four days. I thought I was going mad.
“We tried everything to make it stop. Squats, deep breathing, I even sat on frozen peas but the orgasms and sexual arousal continued for 36 hours,” adding that she must have had around 200 orgasms during that period.
“The pain and exhaustion was excruciating,” she continued, lamenting that she now finds it difficult to control herself or go about her daily life because of fear she would embarrass herself in public.
“Imagine feeling aroused for no reason other than you got up that day. I’ve even had one in public. I was travelling home on the train and it was a bit of a bumpy ride.
“Every jerk of the train or vibration made me more aroused and it was a 40-minute journey so there was nothing I could do.
“I just had to bite my lip and sit on my hands and hope no one noticed.
“Both women and men just don’t seem to get it, they seem to think it’s a great thing and, believe me, it’s really not.”
She said she had visited a lot of medical homes, but doctors have not been able to help out
“At the moment I am able to work. But without the correct treatment this condition can limit my ability to work. I don’t want that.
“It’s already destroyed my chance of having a relationship,” she was further quoted as saying.
The statistics of women suffering from this condition is yet to be known as many of the women who experience it have so far failed to come out probably because of shame, guilt and fear of rejection.
They have continued to suffer in silence.
However, Dr David Goldmeier, an expert on sexual medicine at Imperial College in London, who spoke concerning the condition was quoted as saying he sees up to 20 women in a year.
He said: “PGAD sufferers experience intrusive, unsolicited and spontaneous genital arousal that can be unrelenting. This arousal can persist for hours, days or even longer.
“This can be highly distressing for a woman and despite attempts to relieve it with sexual activity or orgasm, this often doesn’t help or can worsen the symptoms.”
—Eromosele Ebhomele, PM NEWS NIGERIA
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