Little death (la petite mort): Some women do indeed pass right out, the 'little death' of French poetry. Men occasionally do the same. The experience is not unpleasant, but it can scare an inexperienced partner cold. A friend of ours had this happen with the first girl he ever slept with. On recovery she explained, "I am awfully sorry, but I always do that." By then he had called the police and an ambulance. So there is no cause for alarm, any more than over the yells, convulsions, hysterical laughter, or sobbing, or any of the other quite unexpected reactions that go along with complete orgasm in some people. By contrast others simply shut their eyes, but enjoy it no less. Sound and fury can be a flattering testimony to a partners skills, but a fallacious one, because they don't depend on the intensity of feeling, nor it upon them. -- The Joy of Sex

Little death (la petite mort):

Some women do indeed pass right out, the 'little death' of French

poetry. Men occasionally do the same. The experience is not

unpleasant, but it can scare an inexperienced partner cold. A friend

of ours had this happen with the first girl he ever slept with. On

recovery she explained, "I am awfully sorry, but I always do that." By

then he had called the police and an ambulance. So there is no cause

for alarm, any more than over the yells, convulsions, hysterical

laughter, or sobbing, or any of the other quite unexpected reactions

that go along with complete orgasm in some people. By contrast others

simply shut their eyes, but enjoy it no less. Sound and fury can be a

flattering testimony to a partners skills, but a fallacious one,

because they don't depend on the intensity of feeling, nor it upon them.

-- The Joy of Sex

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