Inventor Joanne Drysdale claims it can give multiple, back-to-back orgasms lasting up to a minute a time - and it does not even touch the skin.
The 49-year-old former toolmaker was cleaning her carpets when she came up with the idea for Vortex, which sells for ?35 through lovehoney.co.uk.
She saw how a piece of rubber that had got caught in the nozzle was gently resonating in the air flow. She also felt a soft stimulation to her fingertips as she tried to remove the rubber.
At the time Joanne, from Utah, had not had sex for 15 years following her divorce.
She said: "In my attempts to alleviate frustration, I began to think what I could do. I noticed how the rubber moved in the top of the vacuum.
"After several hours, I came up with the prototype. The first time I tried it I reached an orgasm within 10 seconds.
"That was when I knew I was on to something that could potentially bring pleasure to all women."
Russell Brand wishes there were public sex competitions.
The British comedian - who is currently dating Katy Perry, and has been linked to a string of beauties in the past - admitted he initially set out to become good at sex because he's not a sportsman.
When asked if he used sex as a form of self-validation, he said: "Especially, because I'm not good at any sport. It's a pity there's not some forum where you can do it publicly."
He also compared his liaisons with numerous women to a form of "grooming".
Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Russell, 34, added: "When Britney Spears was on the MTV Video Music Awards with me, between takes, hair and make-up people would come over.
"We didn't need hair or make-up, it was just like monkeys comforting us, grooming us in a primal way, and I think a lot of my liaisons were just like that, grooming."
Russell, 34, also said he gets jealous of the way women orgasm, but also intimidated by it.
He added: "It's a bit frightening, this transformative quality, an orgasm in women. I imagine that it looks better than the miserable squirt men issue.
"It seems different, though, when there's an emotional element - transcendent."
Amsterdam - Tired and sweaty after sex? A Dutch doctor said on Friday he is studying a rare new syndrome among middle-aged men who complain of flu-like symptoms for up to a week after having an orgasm.
Marcel Waldinger, head of the department of psychiatry and neurosexology at Leyenburg Hospital in the Hague, said he planned to publish a report on "post-orgasmic illness syndrome" in the US Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy this month.
Waldinger has seen five Dutch men in as many years in his surgery complaining of a range of flu-like symptoms, including a sore throat, sweating, extreme fatigue and eye irritation after sex.
"Men developed influenza-like symptoms within minutes of having an orgasm. It it is like having a serious flu. This happens as soon as they have an orgasm," said Waldinger.
"It is a new syndrome or a syndrome which is old but has not been looked at properly."
The syndrome could be a physical disorder caused by an allergic reaction or the immune system in direct response to the release of chemicals in the body after sex. The symptoms lasted between three and seven days, he said.
"We know that during orgasm and ejaculation very specific compounds like hormones are released into the nervous system. One hypothesis is that they might have had an allergic reaction to one of those compounds," Waldinger said.
Copenhagen - Women may be able to fool their partners by faking an orgasm but a brain scanner will catch them out every time, a conference heard on Monday.
Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands have used scans to show that different areas of the brain are stimulated during an orgasm but are not activated when a woman fakes it.
"Women can imitate orgasm quite well," Gert Holstege told a fertility meeting on Monday. "But there is nothing really happening in the brain."
He and colleagues took brain scans of 13 women and 11 men, aged between 19 and 49 who had volunteered for the study, while they were being sexually stimulated by their partner and during an orgasm and compared them to images of their brains at rest.
"We wanted to know what the brain was doing during orgasm," Holstege said.
When women genuinely achieved an orgasm, areas of the brain involved in fear and emotion were deactivated. Those areas stayed alert however when women were faking it.
The researchers also found that the cortex, which is linked with consciousness, is active during a fake orgasm but not during the real thing.
"The deactivation of these very important parts of the brain might be the most important thing necessary to have an orgasm," said Holstege.
"It means that if you are fearful or at a very high level of anxiety, then it is very difficult to have sex because you really have to let yourself go," he added.
The brain scans for men during orgasm were less conclusive, according to Holstege.
But they did show that different parts of the male and female brain are activated and deactivated during sexual stimulation.
The researchers found less deactivation in the males in the areas of the brain linked to emotion and fear when they were sexually stimulated.
They are now planning further studies to compared the male and female brains during orgasm.
About 5 300 delegates are attending the 4-day meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.
Given women have made great strides towards equality in so many areas of life, it seems strange that in the bedroom we are still missing out. Picture: Pexels
The night I had sex for the first time I was 20. The man I desired and trusted enough for this nerve-racking rite of passage was kind, sensitive and ten years older.
I knew that ecstasy wasn’t guaranteed, but thought someone with experience would give me a better chance of having a pleasurable time.
In the event, I preferred the kissing part of the evening to the sex bit, and was left none the wiser about how you achieved an orgasm with another human being.
He had an orgasm, of course. Men generally do, when they’re under 40 and not immobilised by drink. And this was pretty much the pattern my sex life took for the next two years, although my next few liaisons were with fellow students my own age.
My initiation into the inequalities of physical intimacy is such a common occurrence that I imagine most women reading this article will be nodding in recognition. And it’s not just early sexual experiences that often leave us unsatisfied; even later in life, there is a looming gap between men’s and women’s likelihood of achieving climax in any given encounter.
Indeed, it’s a phenomenon that has been dubbed "the orgasm gap" - and it is rightly receiving renewed attention after recent research published by the Kinsey Institute, which researches sexual behaviour, revealed that only 65 percent of heterosexual women "usually or always" orgasm during sex, compared to 95 percent of men.
Until recently, this inequality of pleasure was widely regarded as the natural order of things. It was assumed women were less libidinous than men, and if they didn’t climax were either uninterested or (dread word) "frigid".
But given women have made great strides towards equality in so many areas of life, it seems strange that in the bedroom we are still missing out. Lucy Litwack, a force for women’s sexual empowerment since opening up market erotic emporium Coco de Mer in 2001, agrees with Jess Phillips that sex education is "crucial to closing the gap".
"A lack of respect for women’s pleasure leads to a lack of respect in other aspects of life," says Litwack. "We’ve raised a generation of girls to have a voice, take control, and expect equality. Now it’s time to demand the same in the bedroom."
It’s sadly true that women are too often ill-informed about their erogenous zones.
Still, there’s no biological reason women should experience less pleasure - in fact it’s the opposite. The clitoris contains 8 000 nerve endings, twice as many as the head of the penis, so a woman is capable of extraordinary levels of sensation.
The pleasure gap is particularly acute between young men and women. One study in the US found only 39 percent of the women regularly climaxed, compared to 91 percent of the men.
Research from 2012 reported that young men are less likely to spend time and effort trying to gratify their sexual partners when encounters are fleeting, meaning young women may actually be having fewer orgasms as a result of our modern casual sex culture.
Men and women alike agreed that the main hurdle to be overcome wasn’t a woman’s particular needs or preferences, but her ability to clearly communicate them.
The good news is that it’s never too late to start.
The cervix is located at the very top of the vaginal canal and can be stimulated by deep penetration. Picture: Supplied
Cervical orgasms remain a mystery to many women. Often approached with caution, the cervix evokes thoughts of pain for many.
However, it can be a point of pleasure and even orgasm. The cervix is located at the very top of the vaginal canal and can be stimulated by deep penetration.
Cervical orgasm involves a lot of warm up with the cervix often feeling overly sensitive or painful on first touch. Cervical orgasms feel more powerful and consuming, spreading deeper through the body.
They are reported as feeling like a vibration or tingle which emanates through the entire body, providing an intense climax which lasts a lot longer than G-spot or clitoral orgasms.
In reflexology, the cervix is the point of the heart and as such, it’s believed that these orgasms encourage feelings of love and deeper connection. Because of this, reflexology practitioners believe that you’re more likely to achieve cervical orgasm with a partner that you feel close and relaxed with or alone in a safe, tranquil environment.
Singapore - A man who made obscene noises and claimed he was orgasmic while under treatment by a woman dentist has been fined SIN$1 500 (about R7 000), news reports said on Thursday.
Odd-job worker Benjamin Lim Chy Meng, 38, pleaded guilty in district court to insulting the 28-year-old dentist's modesty, said The Straits Times.
Lim had gone to a polyclinic on July 10, 2006. While the dentist was scaling his teeth, he started making lewd remarks, moaning and groaning loudly while using his hands to caress his chest, the court heard.
The dentist kept scaling his teeth. A nurse was also present in the room.
Lim quieted down when the dentist started polishing his teeth.
She made a police report after he left.
Pleading for leniency, Lim's lawyer told the court on Wednesday that it was Lim's first visit to the polyclinic. - Sapa-DPA
