Crista Ann has been grappling with chronic depression for as long as she can remember.
At just 7 years of age, she attempted to take her own life. The following year she started taking Prozac.
The now 32-year-old mum of four recently went back on medication, after having gone without it since her late teens because she wasn’t covered by health insurance.
The mental health benefits of her current anti-depressant changed her life – Crista told the Philadelphia City Paper that she “actually enjoy[s] being alive” for the first time in memory.
However, they came with a serious downside. For the first time in her life, Crista was unable to orgasm.
So… Science just proved the vaginal orgasm doesn’t exist.
“My high sex drive and orgasmic superpower have been the most dependable parts of my identity,” the sex blogger explained on her website back in December. “Usually when a medication says “some sexual side effects” that always means that I become hyper sexual and even more orgasmic. Until now.”
Happily, Crista’s ability to climax with a partner returned, although she reports her orgasms are less intense and “universe creating” than they previously were. Now, she’s on a quest to reclaim her solo orgasms.
“Pleasure is vital to my mental health. Orgasms are vital to my mental health. Masturbation gives me life,” Crista wrote.
“I love how much better I feel with medication, but I do not accept that I have to sacrifice my orgasm to experience less of the darkness of depression.”
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I had exactly the same problem when I took a particular anti-depressant when I was 20. And then I changed medication and OH MY GOD!!!! I was having probably four or five orgasms a day.
Different, but similar - I developed what I called "a sexual dysfunction" on some "other recipe" (non-pseudoephedrine) cold and flu tablets years ago. It was definitely the tablets, because when I stopped taking them my sudden inability to orgasm went away, and I'd never encountered that problem when I'd taken pseudoephedrine tablets in the past.
Anyway, I emailed the manufacturer - more to advise them it was a side-effect than any other reason (but they did refund my money too).
And since then, maybe once a year when I've gotten a cold, I've had to specially request the pseudoephedrine formula - and have learnt to accept that they'll never stop treating me like a junkie for doing so!!