To help unlock the mystery, we got a real women -- including an accountant, EMT, writer, graduate student, and six hosts from Vivid Radio (who have a rich and varied history of having orgasms on camera) -- to describe to men exactly what it feels like to climax as a lady.

The female orgasm is the holy grail of sexual experience. Women’s partners have sought it out for eons, worshiped it, prayed to it, and tried every combination of rubbing, touching, bumping, and grinding to behold its magic. But the true mysticism of a woman’s orgasm -- its sensations and all it elicits -- eludes the men of this world, who are kept from truly understanding how it feels.

"An orgasm starts as a warm sensation in the center of my body. It spreads in waves and reaches the extent of my full body as it increases in intensity. It is like an earthquake of pleasure that fills my body with the best energy ever, and slowly dissipates and leaves me drained and happy." -- April Flores, adult film star, Vivid Radio host, writer and plus-sized model

"I have different kinds. Some are just a spark of pleasure that start at my clit and reverberates out to my legs and back for thirty seconds to a minute or so. Some feel like a very deep and momentous earthquake of tension release that sends waves of ecstasy from my solar plexus to every part of my body and lasts several moments where I can't do anything except just experience it. It take a talented guy to give the latter. I just melt into a ball of relaxed mush like I just had the best massage ever given times ten and usually fall into a sex coma after those. And then there are ones that fall all along the spectrum between those two extremes." -- Theresa, 40, retired therapist

"When I cum it feels like being on the best drugs ever on a roller coaster in my most comfy pajamas." --Aiden Starr, adult film star

"It's the same feeling as your football team winning the championship at the final buzzer!

It doesn't always happen but when it does, it's AMAZING!" -- Emily, 33, luxury production professional

"Oh I enjoy the tension building up in my body, the heat, the passion of the moment and I loved that moment of release when my muscles seems to shudder but still no cry of joy. The older I get the more I seem to enjoy the feeling of that release. I love sharing it with someone, and then feeling that I want another as soon as possible. So maybe my orgasms aren't on the Richter scale but I wouldn't change it now, I guess I’m just not a vocal sexual person, but I enjoy it very much just the way it is. A few soft moans, a twitch or two and then the glorious release." -- Dr. Hedda, psychologist on RomanceBeat.com

"The most literal comparison that comes to mind is like water filling up a dam. Slowly and slowly the tide keeps rising, and the tension has to go somewhere. Eventually, when it gets to be too much, the dam breaks. And yes I realize you could use that same analogy for peeing your pants. But still, I think it holds." -- Ali Drucker, senior sex and dating editor at Maxim

"Your whole body starts shaking like it’s collecting energy. Like it’s sucking electricity out of the toaster if you’re in the kitchen, or the alarm clock if you’re in the bedroom. And then you want to come but you don’t, and then you think maybe now, and then it doesn’t happen. And then when you’re not expecting it. BOOM! I would say it's like having to pee and finally getting to." -- Mary Carey, adult film star, director, and Vivid Radio host

"Orgasms come in ranges for me. There are the 10- minute neck massage kinds that make you think, 'this was nice', and ones that feel like you have had four sets of hands rubbing all of your muscles at once and leaving you in a state of relaxed ecstasy." -- Beth, 28, accountant