What is Persistent Genital Arousal Syndrome, and what are the triggers?
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/855253-junk-food-makes-woman-have-orgasms
Wouldn't eating healthy foods also work? I would also assume that exercising would trigger this syndrome too. Is she consciously choosing to be overweight? Or does the fat and sugar in foods create the ONLY trigger response?
Does anybody know?
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M$2 Answers
At first, this sounded pretty good - until I started reading about women who actually suffer from it. "Nightmarish reality", "feel like a freak", "being robbed of my life", "tortuous", "thought I was a crazy sex fiend", and "suicidal" are all descriptors that I came across.
Persistent Genital Arousal Syndrome is described as clitoral priapism "in which a woman experiences insistent and unwanted genital arousal that is unaccompanied by conscious feelings of sexual desire or subjective arousal. The feelings of fullness in the genital area persist for an extended period of time (e.g., days, weeks or months) despite one or more orgasms." (quote from PSAS support site)
As for the triggers, no one seems to know. Some ideas are: Caesarean sections, menopause, injury to the pelvis, emotional stress, brain lesion anomalies and pelvic nerve hypersensitivity.
There are no treatments, the only suggestions I could find online are: ice packs, massage, stretching, anesthetizing agents and mood-stabilizing drugs such as Depakote or Paxil to relieve the distress.
The women in all the articles I read make it sound like a horrific affliction - so I don't understand why the woman you asked about, Gabi Jones, would either want to trigger such a thing or be willing to put her health in jeopardy by gorging on so much junk food.
sources:
http://www.psas-support.com/main/
http://healthmad.com/women/persistent-genital-arousal-disorder-pgad/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352357,00.html
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M$As founder of the support groups for women with PGAD there is absolutely NO ties to junk food and a disorder that is muscular, nerve and stress related. Don't believe everything you read.
Jeannie Allen
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M$
Thank you for confirming what I was guessing about this person. I hope there is a way to call her out through the media since she is obviously down playing and belittling this serious disorder.
Since you are founder of the support group, you might be able to contact the media which posted this. I also thought it was odd that the 'Daily Mail' from the UK wrote about her when she resides in Colorado in the US.
She is just one of a few who looked for the lime light---another was a woman got PGAD after falling off her exercise Wii---it just doesn't happen that way. The Daily Mail probably picked it up from a syndicated US paper---we go through this all the time--I just ignore them now :) Just know that what I said is what the researchers believe the causes are.
By the way the youtube video on this page was by one of the members of my support group and is true --she's a nurse who suffers PGAD and did a fine job putting that together.
Thanks for the informative answer!
I'll side with with you, in that I think Gabi is making a conscious decision in regards to her weight and health. And from what you have read about these poor women... it almost makes Gabi look like she's pretending she's afflicted for the attention, or that she wants to be a fetish. This just doesn't add up.
I wonder if a woman could fake this syndrome?