In modern observations of human coitus efforts are made to measure heart rate during sexual
excitement, climax,
the resolution phase, etc. The first attempts to measure heart rate during sexual intercourse
date back to 1896,
when G. Kolb carried out a range of experiments in this area. In the 1930s E. P. Boas and E.
F. Goldschmidt
made similar observations and in 1950 G. Klumbies and H. Kleinsorge included heart rate,
blood pressure and
respiratory changes in their experiments.