It may be quite a task to put into words (to describe) such intense and blissful sensations a man experiences while he climaxes. Some time ago the forum of The Erotica Readers & Writers Association did ask men (and women):
Describe Your Orgasm
How does it feel? Don’t be shy…
Can you describe your orgasm? The feeling from beginning to end—I’d love to hear your description without the usual explicatives. Be wide-ranging, and all-inclusive in how it feels, where it comes, and from whence it comes.
In this post I do quote quite some accounts of guys (leaving out the ladies here) not to check with literary capacities, but to demonstrate how different guys do understand the term orgasm, or rather, what experience they take for an orgasm. Read this selection (I did some focal editing) with my comment on every guys description:
From Nathan
You are in total bliss for around 10 seconds but I’ve found a way to make it last longer. I’ve been masturbating since I was 5 am now 22.
Nathan then describes that he had discovered edging, and eventually:
…my heart was pounding and every 20 seconds I had to stop again. I could feel it right down my legs, I couldn’t even move, until after about 10 minutes of this torture I gave in and had one of the biggest climaxes I’ve had.
I guess Nathan is speaking about an intense ejaculation after some edging.
From Jim W
…I suddenly reach that FAMOUS, FABULOUS point of no return, here by myself, I give an “undignified” grunt…, as I reflect, it appears this pleasurable state—focused in penis, lasts awhile, but in fact I discovered it only lasts a second or two—then I shoot my wad as the rope of cum lands faraway, 2nd and 3rd shots/contractions reflect penile pleasure, after this, as the pleasure fades (as well as volume of ejaculate) I instinctively pump that dick faster, as to milk out the remaining semen; but by now the intense orgasmic pleasure had since faded.
…I estimate approx. 6 seconds of orgasmic pleasure—centered in penis, and after 1 climax, the dick soon goes limp.
Jim W is clearly speaking of an ejaculatory climax.
From Anonymous
I’m an older man and divorced, and I wish to describe the orgasm I have experienced with a special method of masturbation. It’s natural for men to want to thrust the hips forward in sex with a woman or in masturbation, but with my method I experience a wonderful, mind-blowing oozing sensation that precedes a very powerful series of ejaculations.
I lie on my side and bend slightly at the hips so that my butt is sticking out in back and, as I stroke my penis, I concentrate on relaxing my PC and sphincter muscles. When I get to the point of loss of control, with those muscles relaxed I can feel the semen oozing slowly up my penis and out the tip, an incredibly erotic sensation. Then the intense muscle contractions take over, but I still resist assisting them by concentrating on relaxing. I experience extremely strong contractions along my penis, in the anal area and down to my knees. Oddly enough, the pleasure is more intense if my penis is not entirely stiff.
This is a very intriguing variant of an ejaculatory climax, this experienced guy explains.
From KL
…As my cock gets erect, I feel a very pleasurable, slight tingling sensation. As I get ever so closer to orgasm, this pleasurable sensation becomes gradually stronger. My cock is usually rock hard & throbbing at this point and I begin to get a feeling of fullness inside me, in the area just behind & above my scrotum. All the while, my heart is beating faster and faster, along with a little heavier breathing. When I am several seconds away from orgasm, I sometimes feel a few random twitches of my PC muscle. Right after that (if I continue stimulation), is the beginning of my orgasm, as I define it.
Ladies, (and guys, too), in case you were wondering, a guy’s ejaculation occurs DURING his orgasm, but is only one of a handful of things going on! At the moment my orgasm actually begins, I feel my semen pooling at the base of my penis & beginning to move into the urethra. This is the point at which a guy knows he’s going to come, and there is no way to stop it! It feels so good–I wish it would last longer! It is a very warm, almost “hot” feeling inside me. When this hot feeling peaks, which takes only a few seconds once it begins, I feel a wave of energy (for lack of a better description) radiate out from my groin to my extremities. My face grimaces, my fists clench, and my toes curl. At the same time, my PC muscles contract a few times, but this time in a more rhythmic fashion. All the while, as I am feeling all of this going on, I usually vocalize my pleasure, from now through the end of my orgasm. If I am inside my wife, I have a very strong desire to thrust deeper–it is almost a reflex action.
Then, usually I feel one, sometimes two more powerful PC muscle contractions, one right after the other, less than a second apart. This is actually what I consider to be the beginning of my ejaculation, although no semen has come out yet. The next (second or third) contraction usually brings the first squirt of cum out of my cock. This, and usually the second squirt, travel the farthest. …The pumping action of my PC muscle, and the feeling of a large volume of semen shooting through my penis feels incredible to me. (I usually have about 10-12 spurts of cum, again, each just less than a second apart…) As I continue spurting, the full feeling diminishes, and the hot feeling begins to subside, too, but not quite as quickly. After semen stops spurting out, I still feel some leftover random PC contractions as residual semen may ooze out. This is the end of my ejaculation.
I am usually breathing very heavily for a few moments along with a rapid heartbeat. The feeling in my penis changes somewhat now. The shaft gets less sensitive, while only the head gets super-sensitive. (Guys, as well as the ladies, you can relate to this feeling, I’m sure. It is almost painful to continue any stimulation). My penis starts to soften, but only a little at first… Breathing slows back to normal & I have to work to unclench my fists…
A detailed description by KL and it appears he is illustrating a combined climax of orgasm and ejaculation, and being quite conscious about it.
From Chris
…For me it seems to start in the perineum, spread into my balls, and then it rips through my cock like a steam train. The feeling is one of an ever tightening coil in my pelvic area which reaches a point where it just has to spring back to normal.
It starts with a delicious tingling, then pulsating waves, then wild convulsive contractions which all work to whip me along a kind of roller coaster ride in my crotch. If I’m tensing other muscles (eg my leg muscles if I’m standing spread eagled getting my cocked suck by another guy) then those muscles also quiver and tremble and come along for the ride. The feelings are hot, tingling, lusty and manly.
The best part is when the first phase of the orgasm has begun and it’s time to shoot a load. Spurting out the cum provides the final release. There’s nothing like that feeling of getting rid of all that juice that has been churning around my balls for so long. And of course the intensest feelings are along the shaft of my cock – which feels likes it’s being enveloped in the most fantastic tingling, throbbing and pulsating waves of release, bursting to exploding point.

While it doesn’t always come naturally, I can give my whole body over to the convulsions and thrash and bounce my arse on the bed and in general flail my limbs around. Keeping the pumping going after the immediate orgasm and speeding up the tempo also maximizes and prolongs the experience, which can leave my whole body, anchored to my pumping fist at the cock, convulsing and writhing for quite some time. And when I really far gone I don’t give a damn what the neighbours think as I pant and moan and groan. I expect it inspires them to get down to it themselves.
When I cum with a cock up my arse the feelings seem to start deeper in the pit of my arse where my prostate is located. Being prodded by a nice fat cock spreads the area over which the orgasm takes place. It’s like my insides, my lover’s cock and my pelvis are as one and riding the ecstatic waves in unison.
The more foreplay and delayed gratification the better the finale. Sometimes I experience mini orgasms with only a little cum dribbling out. These are both pleasurable and very tortured as you do get some release and delicious teasing tingling and a few faint contractions, but you need to discipline yourself not to go the whole hog, not if you want to experience the ultimate orgasm still to come. Under these circumstances the experience is the most cock-centred – I feel like I’m all cock, wound up, hot, and bursting to explode. Not much else exists in the world at such a time!
And the final pleasure? The sticky mess – some guys find this a curse but I guess being gay I’m pretty cum friendly. I like not knowing where the cum will fly – on me, my face, my stomach, the sheets, the head-board if I’m lucky, or my partner’s chest or face if he’s lucky. And I love to feel the spray of another guy’s cum on me – it’s all part of the rich delicious tapestry of the male orgasm…
Another detailed, and even poetic take on several ways to climax! Chris clearly distinguishes between ejaculatory climax and orgasmic climax, and even a more rare prostatic climax.
From Dennis
I learned the art of extremely explosive orgasms by training my PC muscles to EXPLODE at just the right moment. I do Kegel exercises daily (about 200 contractions per day) and so does my wife. The strength of our PC’s allow us to better control the timing and INTENSITY of our orgasms. The longer that I delay and control my ejaculation the more intense the moaning and wetness we both feel.
My precum begins to flow one drop at a time and my wife responds with moans of pleasure enjoying her growing nipples and intensifying wetness. I give her timing signals (1 minute or 30 seconds) as to how close I feel I am to orgasm. At that point she will tell me to slow down or go deeper or possibly hold still for a few moments so that we can build up more anticipation and time our impending explosions together.
As we approach the last 10 seconds she will signal me and I plunge deep into her and do several powerful Kegel contractions with my cock throbbing and ready to explode but no longer going in and out. She contracts tightly around my pulsing shaft and I begin to feel my huge load mixing and slowly flowing up from the base of my cock. As it begins to mix, I tell her 5 seconds and we both push deeper as my powerful PC muscle explodes the first shot of cum deep against the back of her powerfully contracting vagina. We both scream in ecstasy as our powerfully trained PC’s contract and the remaining 8 to 10 shots of cum explode into her and she tells me she senses each warm shot.
Her contractions are often so powerful from her daily Kegels (which she does sitting at her desk at work) that she literally triggers my explosion that I have been trying to time together with her. I just sit back and enjoy the power she has over me and let her know how wonderful her powerful contractions feel around my exploding cock. I savor each and every shot of warm load that I can fill her with until we both lay there holding each other tight until we drift off to sleep. She is the best that I could ever dream for!

She also enjoys seeing how powerful my explosion can be by bringing me to orgasm using her thumb and a few fingers to make me start dripping as she rolls my balls very gently with her other hand. If I let my load build up for about 5 days before, she is able to build the volume of cum up with her gentle hands for about 20 minutes and with one or two gentle perfectly timed rubs across the tip of my dripping cock she watches me explode for 10 or 12 seconds as she aims the sometimes 24″ or more shots wherever she wants (sometimes on me, sometimes on her).
Well, Dennis and his wife are certainly experts for very controlled and very intense ejaculatory climaxes, on Dennis side that is.
From Anonymous
The main focus of my orgasm is in my penis. As I either fuck my girlfriend, or masturbate, I can feel my orgasm start in my balls. It runs up though the shaft of my dick and then to cock’s head where I explode with a geyser full of cum. It feels great to ejaculate because it makes my dick feel good as the cum is being pushed out.
This describes an ejaculation, plain and simple.
From James
This was so appealing that I had to experience an orgasm myself during reading these fine entries and here is my experience As I increased stroking my penis (my #1 pleasure area), my nuts tighten, body stiffens and I let out a grunt of pleasure, knowing ejaculation is soon due. These precious couple seconds are the highest forms of pleasure and are focused in my groin.

The 1st ejaculation is accompanied by a grunt (extreme pleasure felt) and the shot goes far; a 2nd shot (very pleasurable) is accompanied by a verbal “oh” and a third as well. Later contractions feature the cum oozing out as the pleasure tapers. I project it was about a 10 second orgasm. Of course the best pleasure felt before the ejaculation.
James is talking about an ejaculatory climax as well.
From Jim
My orgasms are very centered in my penis. Initially, there is a tingling in my balls, which, as I get closer to orgasm, rises up along the shaft until, when I come, it’s very intense right at my cockhead. Ejaculation sensations run the gamut from there & gone to feeling like my insides are being squirted out my cock.
Jim explains an ejaculation here.
From Mark
An orgasm seems to teeter on the border of pleasure and pain… the pressure you feel as it builds up in a males genital region. Specifically the testicles until climax can be almost maddening if allowed to go on too long… I know that sounds kinda weird. It kicks in a primal need for satisfaction. Your muscles, in your back, legs, butt and stomach all tighten…. your heart rate increases. Your breathing becomes more labored. …with all the hormones running through your body you can be actually considered legally stoned during sex. You lose some of your higher cognitive functions.
As a male reaches the point of no return … it really does border on pain until actual orgasm and ejaculation happens. It quickly dissipates with each spasm of the PC muscles.
With Marks take I find another combined climax of orgasm and ejaculation.
From Zombie Ferguson
Mine starts as a rumble. I can feel it almost past my calves. It encircles each of my legs, and rises up my buttocks. I can feel the release almost through my stomach, and as it approaches I experience great flexibility, and an incredible sense of breathing and alertness. It makes my body shake, and my cock gets harder, and feels hotter. At the summit, I can’t see except for a gauzelike vision, and there’s a drumming, though quite quick that goes through my head, and rests in my ears, but only for a moment. My whole body feels like detaching and exploding in all different directions, and it’s amazing how “fully engulfed“ it feels, my mouth is open and taking in so much air it feels criminal, and at the explosion, all time stops for a brief instant, my thighs stiffen, my toes curl, and then there’s an explosion at the point of my shaft. Whoa! Then the ride down begins, fast furious, yet smooth. I feel like I’m landing in a room filled with all comfortable things. For a while, I’m completely, drooling and happy. I can feel the throbbing of my heart, and my sated penis as one continuous thud.
It’s blissful. The only feeling I have is, I gotta get back up that hill again…
Zombie Ferguson is definitely describing an orgasm. Notice that he does not mention anything about cum and spurting (but drooling after the climax). That is because orgasm overrides the sensations of ejaculation. Ejaculation becomes part of the more encompassing sensations of orgasm (enhancing it). This is a beautiful illustration of what an orgasm can feel like.
I hope that for starters I could give a hint about the different sensations possible with the different ways guys are able to experience their climaxes.