Can Women Get Blue Balls, Too?

No doubt you’ve heard of blue balls, the painful condition that can occur when a man gets aroused but doesn’t have an orgasm. And you’ve probably been thankful on more than one occasion that women can’t get them. Or can we?
Survey says: Yes.

 

Women's sexy bits can most definitely get the blues when they don't get off, says Teresa Hoffman, M.D., an OB/GYN and medical director of Hoffman & Associates, an OB/GYN group affiliated with Baltimore’s Mercy Medical Center. Of course, since we don’t have testicles the mechanism is a wee bit different—but the concept is the same.