Why does my hip ache when I...

September 2, 2008 11:40 PM

Kind of an odd sexual question (nothing too dirty but since it's sex-related, mark this NSFW)...

For as long as I've been having orgasms (pretty much since I started self-experimenting in my youth), my orgasms are accompanied by a sharp pain in my right hip. I'm not complaining; it actually enhances the experience. But I've always wondered what causes it, and I've never heard of anyone else who has this happen.

Has anyone here ever heard of this? Can you help settle a lifetime of confusion?

posted by mgrichmond to health & fitness (5 comments total)

are you tensing the muscles around this part? most people find one or two ways to get off that just work and they don't even think about what they're doing with their body to make that happen. for me, i get a pain in my calf and in my lower stomach. i can get around it if i pay extra attention to not tense those parts. usually, i just take the pain.
posted by nadawi at 12:43 AM on September 3, 2008

Go to a good chiropractor and ask him or her to feel around for your psoas muscle, see if it's super-tense or something. Yoga/educated and careful stretching might also help.

IANADOC, and frankly know less than your average college student about anatomy.
posted by pomegranate at 5:14 AM on September 3, 2008

Some women get a very slight pain when becoming sexually aroused due to constricting blood vessels - not sure if there's a male version of this. It always confused me and I wondered if I had some kind of masochistic tendency/sexual trauma, if unseriously.
posted by mippy at 5:31 AM on September 3, 2008

Well, you're not the only one. No real resolution, unfortunately, but add this to the "I'm not alone?" page of the wiki.
posted by Rock Steady at 5:54 AM on September 3, 2008

I agree with the psoas muscle suggestion, but suggest that you see a kinesiologist about it rather than a chiropractor.

Because although you might luck out and get a chiropractor who knows kinesiology quite well (as some do), your chances of getting a practitioner who understands kinesiology are greatly improved by going to a kinesiologist in the first place.
posted by Sidhedevil at 11:40 AM on September 3, 2008