Q: “I heard the term “pelvic floor” from my doctor. What is it? Does it affect sex?”

What role does my pelvic floor play in sexual functioning? Basically, an orgasm is just a release of sexual tension, and it generally occurs when our pelvic floor begins to contract rapidly. We have my model ginger here who’s gonna help support us in understanding. Our pelvic floor muscles rest at the base of our pelvic bones. And our pelvic floor is a collection of muscles, ligaments, tissues, blood vessels, blood flow goes through here and it plays a huge role in multiple different functions in our body. Today, of course, we’re just gonna be focusing on sexual functioning. There are 16 muscles total in your pelvic floor, and there are three main muscles of those 16 that are involved in sexual functioning. And so we’re looking primarily at the pelvic floor of people that were assigned female at birth or who were born with the [00:01:00] clitoris. So when we look really closely here at Ginger, we can see right here we’re taught we have the clitoris, right? And so there’s a muscle called the buio. Muscle connects at your pubic synthesis and it wraps around the head of the clitoris. It wraps around the urethra. It wraps around that vaginal opening. It crosses over the perineum. It wraps around the anus to attach at the tailbone and then goes back so we can give of that muscle as a figure. Eight is being shaped like a figure eight, and then we have the Isha covern muscles what also attach at that pubic synthesis right next to the clitoris and go. Then right along the pubic bone here, and we have one on the left and the right. And so when we start to get aroused, blood flow goes to those two muscles. And so this is why if you were to [00:02:00] look at your vulva in a mirror at a time of arousal, that you might notice that your vulva begins to change shape and color as more blood flow is going there. When it’s time for us to have an orgasm, it is a muscle called the pub Cox Gs muscle, which is a deeper muscle deep inside the body. So when we are super turned on, our pelvic floor at some point will begin to contract really rapidly, and that is what allows an orgasm to happen. They’ve estimated that your pelvic floor will contract about 10 to 12 times in about five to seven. Seconds orgasms in people that are born with the clitoris can last anywhere from 15 to 55 seconds. All right, friends, that is your anatomy of the pelvic floor in terms of sexual functioning and the role that it plays. Have a beautiful rest of your day.