Maximum pulse rate in coitus
Graphic analogies have been drawn between human coitus and other forms of energetic
activity, such as riding
a bicycle or running a sprint. In all such cases various physiological effects can be noted, one
of which is the more
rapid circulation of blood. In the 1950's Kinsey pointed out that "precise measurements on the
increase in pulse
rate during arousal are few," a circumstance which - to a degree Masters and Johnson have
rectified. Mendelsohn
produced graphs showing maximum pulse rate for men and women before, during and after
coitus: a maximum
pulse rate of 150 was recorded. Boas and Goldschmidt recorded maximums of 146 in four
consecutive orgasms
in a woman. And Klumbies and Kleinsorge noted a maximum pulse rate of 142 in a man at
orgasm. In violent
exercise boys have been known to reach a rate of 200; and young men running to a treadmill
have reached 208.