The most recorded orgasms in an hour were 134 for one woman and only 16 for a man.

For 22 years, Doctors William Hartman and Marilyn Fithian of the Center for Marital and Sexual Studies in Long Beach, California, have been faithfully recording the orgasmic response in their laboratory. After hooking up subjects to blood-pressure and heart-rate monitors and various sensors in the vagina or anus, the doctors would sit by the beside and take copious notes as the subjects busied themselves.

In an attempt to head off accusations of prurience, they say such research is stupifyingly dull, saying they had to �struggle to stay awake.� However, they overcame the tedium to spend 10,000 hours in the laboratory. After several false starts (originally they had the subjects push a button whenever they had a orgasm, but during the heat of the moment they usually became too preoccupied to be concerned with the cause of research), the study continued apace, eventually encompassing 751 individuals.

The most orgasms they recorded in an hour for a woman is a staggering 134, while the best men could do was 16.