photo by Robert McDon.

Because of our interest in all things bizarre in the medical world,  we spend a lot of time scouring the internet for news of the weird.  At the risk of being a bit controversial, we submit to you a condition we found via News of The World, a UK website.  In a 2007 article they tell us about Sarah, a then-24-year-old girl with a very strange medical condition.

She can’t stop having orgasms.

She has 100 to 200 orgasms per day.  She can’t use a hairdryer, ride in a car, or even be in a noisy room full of people because the vibrations send her into fits.  She has a condition called Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome (PSAS), and before you start feeling jealous, imagine not being able to control when (or where) you reach your “happy place”.  She’s a beautician, and she has to deal with having all these orgasms every day right in front of people.  You can imagine, it’s pretty hard to get things done when your body is busy climaxing all the time.

PSAS is likely a nerve disorder, though not enough people have done studies on it to know for sure.  The condition is pretty rare.  It was only first documented in 2001.  It seems that most triggers are certain types of drugs.  For sure, Sarah’s symptoms didn’t start until she’d been on anti-depressants and then went off them.  Ever since then, she’s been suffering with this disorder.

Because the condition is thought to be nerve-related, physical therapy is one possible treatment.  Similarly, because the nerve disorder thought to cause PSAS is pundendal nerve entrapment, surgery is another option.  Surely there must be something that can help people like poor Sarah.  Too much of a good thing is still…too much.

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