Changes

Orgasm is the [[pleasure ]] obtained at the culmination (end pleasure) of [[sexual ]] [[activity]]; it differs from the preliminary pleasure of foreplay in that it corresponds to a relaxation rather than a rise in [[excitation]]. [[Freud ]] takes up the commonly referred to link between orgasm and [[death ]] (petite [[mort]]) by analogy with the [[separation ]] between the soma and the germen and, in some of the lower [[animal ]] [[species]], the death of the [[male]]. From a metapsychological viewpoint the momentary short-circuiting of [[Eros ]] through the [[satisfaction ]] obtained ensures.