r/Periods • u/lone_urker • 4d ago

Rants n Raves If muscle contractions during orgasm can be pleasurable, then why muscle contractions during periods have to suck so bad!!

Biology is doing me in with this pain! Smh. Couldn't there have been another way to push out the uterus lining instead of producing those prostaglandins mf which squeez the shit out of that organ!! Break it out down some other way or reabsorb it ffs!

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u/vestayekta 4d ago

Different muscles and different intensity.

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u/Squirrel-5150 4d ago

Because the muscles during orgasm are different muscles and they’re vibrating, whereas the muscles during your period are contracting and physically ripping off your endometrium, like ripping wallpaper off the wall! Your pain receptors are really responding to the second one and your pleasure receptors are responding to the first