When we first saw the headlines this past week about a woman who has 300 orgasms a day finally meeting the man of her dreams — i.e. a man who could keep up with her libido — we assumed the story would be about Marrena Lindberg, whom we interviewed last year for our U.K. TV show. Lindberg is the author of The Orgasmic Diet: A Revolutionary Plan to Lift Your Libido and Bring You to Orgasm and has persistent sexual arousal syndrome (PSAS), which means that she has hundreds of orgasms a day. Mind you, these aren’t dramatic, Meg Ryan-style orgasms — she demonstrated one for us during the interview (using a photo of Stephen Colbert as her “inspiration,” we shit you not) and after it was over, we had to ask, “Did it happen?” And yes, we were just as awkward as you might expect. Exactly where is the polite place to look when one’s interview subject is in the midst of an orgasm? But the recent news item was not about Lindberg. Apparently persistent sexual arousal syndrome is, well, persistent. As the condition is being increasingly recognized, more and more women are coming forward — relieved, finally, to not be called “crazy” or, worse, “lucky” (even by their doctors). And, of course, the media are more than happy to cover this — because multi-orgasmic women make for good headlines (ahem, exhibit A, this post).
Turns Out There IS Such a Thing as Too Many Orgasms
