Uncontrollable orgasms?

A chemical component of some antidepressant drugs is clomipramine, usually used not only for the treatment of depression, but also for phobias, anxiety and other disorders.

Numerous people have reported that, when consuming these medications at the beginning, they have had uncontrollable orgasms when yawning. In fact, it has been investigated that about 5% of these patients, and of both sexes, have perceived this effect.

The truth is that in the early 1980s this drug (clomipramine) was prescribed to men and women with obsessive-compulsive tendencies and depression.

Since the 1960s, this drug has been developed, and studies have been carried out by specialists in psychiatry who have reported that the drug had implications for the sexual life of some male patients, with around 20% being negatively disturbed and around 42 % positively.

In 1973 the directors of Geigy Laboratories, manufacturers of the drug, prohibited all research in relation to clomipramine, refusing to associate it as a treatment for sexual pathologies, which caused other side effects to be unknown, in this case the one that caused orgasms in some yawning patients.

However, in 1983 it was revealed that many of the patients who had been prescribed the drug voluntarily extended their consumption for longer than the established time.