Male multiple orgasms, an unexpected gift after prostatectomy

By Michael Ward

Since my radical prostatectomy at the age of 67, I have been lucky enough to develop the capacity for multiple orgasms – two to five in quick succession. I have found the experience far more intense and almost frightening in its ecstatic power than anything I can ever remember feeling, even before having a prostatectomy.

My cancer journey was a lucky one, as detailed here, including recovering basic urine control and erectile function relatively quickly. I was certainly pleased to find my erections coming back, though steady stimulation was still required, and nighttime erections were not as forthcoming—yet. After we have our prostates removed, orgasms are not the same, and they come without ejaculating, of course.

Regardless, since orgasms are good and healthy for all of us in many ways, I sought methods to make that happen after my prostatectomy, though the early results were disappointing. Here’s how my orgasms went from a “3” out of ten, to waves of intense climaxes that culminate almost every self-pleasuring moment and sex with my wife Ann have become the happy norm.

I am well aware that I have been lucky, and I share this story on the editor’s invitation, not to boast but to detail another way that each man’s prostate cancer journey is different.

From disappointment to mindblowing multiple orgasms

A little over three weeks after having my prostate removed, a climax came with very little sensation whatsoever, leading me to exclaim: “Is that all?” Subsequent orgasms improved and became stronger, yet they remained far from the wonderfully pleasurable and intense experiences they once were. Looking at my sexual recovery diary, I see that they gradually improved. I tolerate PDE5i “boner pill” drugs (Tadalafil/ Cialis and Sildenafil/ Viagra) very well, and certainly they help. Initially most orgasms were “3s” to “7s” and steadily increased until regular “9s” and “10s” arrived about the fifth month.  Then, something quite surprising happened—I began to experience more than one orgasm!

They can come in a rapid-fire sequence like waves of intense pleasure or they can stretch out over a couple of minutes or longer. I can enjoy one or two and then back off as the pleasurable tension stretches like an extended musical note, and then I can resume to stretch the exquisiteness of the pleasurable sensations in my cock further or simply move to a marvelous crescendo.

The first waves of one to three climaxes involve a feeling that is almost like a pleasurable burning intensity in my penis, but they don’t leave it overly sensitive. After two or three orgasms I do often become too sensitive for continued stimulation with a silicone cock-sleeve sex toy (if I am using one), but I can almost always bring about one final orgasm afterward through stroking by hand only. This final climax is of slightly decreased intensity and feels really warm and pleasurable, and something that I have found to be a nice way of finishing.

Research on male multiple orgasms linked to prostatectomy

Curious about it all, I began to search the internet to find out if other men were experiencing multiple orgasms. Interestingly, there wasn’t much information out there, but I did find one good source, referenced in a peer-reviewed Elsevier article from ScienceDirect online

The multiorgasmic state can be condensed or sporadic. When it is condensed, two to four individual orgasms occur within a few seconds to two minutes. . .(quoted from Sexual Medicine Reviews, Vol. 4, Issue 2)

The authors also state: “In some cases, the ability to experience multiple orgasms may increase after medical procedures that reduce ejaculation (eg, prostatectomy . . .)” and that “sex toys to enhance tactile stimulation” also contribute to multiorgasm in the few men who experience them. According to the article, less than 7% of men over 30 experience multiple orgasms.

[Editor’s note: A bigger team including one of the authors of the above article has published additional research in January 2025: Description of how men achieve multiple orgasms]

The description of “condensed orgasms” applies to my experiences with regular multiple orgasms, as does the use of sex toys. Eventually, I experienced multiple orgasms when having sex with my wife as well.

From self pleasure to partnered: male multiple orgasms

For me these delightful waves of intense climaxes that culminate from almost every self-pleasuring moment have become the happy norm. I nevertheless regularly had difficulty reaching orgasm through intercourse. My wife Ann was easily having orgasms, and I became determined to experience them while making love with her.

She felt that “finishing” together in other ways was just fine, and I agreed. Nonetheless, as irrational as it was, I felt as though coming inside her would signal something of a full recovery from my prostatectomy.

Eventually, it happened in the most extraordinary of experiences and beyond what I expected, while we were joyfully fucking one evening last September. This time my orgasms arrived in cascading waves that swept through my entire body.

It went beyond my post-prostatectomy pulsing climaxes over the course of a minute or two when masturbating. This was far more intense and consuming, and overwhelming in its ecstatic power than anything I can ever remember feeling, even before having a prostatectomy.

Multiple orgasms: overwhelming joy

What follows is my post-prostatectomy sexual recovery diary entry:

“After perhaps seven or eight minutes of vigorous thrusting with some laughter and fun, the most powerful, amazingly long and intense series of cascading orgasms came, one after the next, wave after wave of really intense pleasure that ran over my entire body, pulsing again and again in one of the best and most spectacular orgasms that I ever have experienced. Feeling them arriving, I announced that an orgasm was coming several minutes before they arrived, and when they did, the orgasms spanned over most of two minutes. My erection continued unabated for many minutes after withdrawing from Ann.”

I recorded in my diary that I experienced over five orgasms and they were all “10s”! When they arrived like that, I became afraid that they wouldn’t stop and feared passing out, while Ann expressed her delight with it all.

We both collapsed together with a sigh and exclamation of “Wow!—what just happened?” The experience and sensitivity throughout my whole body had become too much, and seemed to me to be more like what many women experience with their orgasms.

Though I have lamented to myself the loss of ejaculations, I now find myself anticipating with even greater joy and exhilaration, each sexual encounter with my wife. When I have had orgasms while making love with Ann since that extraordinary occurrence, they come in multiple waves of pleasure much like those I experience “going solo” or self-pleasuring.

Gratitude and acknowledgement of risks

Multiple climaxes are a wonderful phenomenon in my body since my prostatectomy. They are surely a nice trade-off for losing my prostate! My wife points out that “It is important to acknowledge that, being an older man who has AFib and high blood pressure brings to the world of orgasms a recognition that the physical exertion, while glorious, simultaneously brings with it, shall we say, intimations of mortality, since vigorous physical activity impacts heart rate and blood pressure.” My response, is: “Well, if I’m going to die, I might as well die happy in the saddle!”

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