If it was not carried by the respectable BBC, the
piece The phenomenon of the musical ‘skin orgasm’ would have been
dismissed as an article from the seedy underbelly of the Internet.
But no, in a scholarly piece with claim to being a
part of psychology and neuroscience, David Robson asked the question:
“[If] some people feel music so strongly the
sensations can be compared to sex, how does a good song move the body and mind
in this way?”
As example, Robson cited the case of an accomplished female pianist and
violinist Psyche Loui (yup, that’s her real name) who says that she gets off
with one particular piano piece that strikes her body like a bolt of lightning.
“Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 came up on the
radio and I was instantly captivated,” she said, adding that a chill down her
spine, accompanied by a fluttering in her stomach and a racing heart.
“There are these slight melodic and harmonic twists in
the second half that always get me!” she added.
Wrote Robson: You may know these physical feelings as
chills or tingles – but some people feel them so powerfully, they describe the
sensations as “skin orgasms”.
Rachmaninoff’s so moves Loui that she became a
psychologist at Wesleyan University and tried to decipher the science between
the big “O” and music.
Here’s the link to the complete article:
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