In entertaining collections about animals, you can often find the statement that a pig’s orgasm lasts a world record time - 30 minutes. We decided to check whether this is supported by scientific data.

Collections about record-breaking animals, including this fact, popular on various sites with entertaining content, found on Pikabu, "Answers from Mail.ru" and in social networks. Statements about dolphins And ostriches We have already checked and refuted it before, and now it’s the pigs’ turn.

Pigs, or, as it would be more accurate from a terminological point of view, pigs, are a family of artiodactyl mammals, originally common in Eurasia and Africa, however, thanks to humans, they are now present on all continents except Antarctica. Pigs were tamed by man around the 9th millennium BC. e., that is, even a little previouslythan cats.

Orgasm in both males and females accompanied by characteristic intense muscle contractions in the pelvic area, while in males orgasm is in most cases accompanied by ejaculation (at least in humans also It happens orgasm without ejaculation). Thus, one cannot equate the entire orgasm with the process of ejaculation, but one can be sure that the entire process of ejaculation occurs during orgasm.

In 2012, Brazilian veterinarians studied dependence of sperm quality in breeding boars on the time of ejaculation. Nine boars producing the Pietrain meat breed, popular abroad but not common in Russia, were selected for the study. A total of 447 semen samples were collected from experimental pigs. Scientists studied the average motility of sperm and the morphological composition of seminal fluid, as well as the dependence of general parameters on the time of ejaculation. Two of the nine experimental animals demonstrated an average ejaculation time of about 13 minutes, with the maximum time for one ejaculation in the entire experiment being 1860 seconds, or 31 minutes, and the minimum being just over 2 minutes. That is, a pig’s orgasm can definitely last 30 minutes. and even longer. By the way, in the end, the researchers found no relationship between sperm quality and ejaculation time.

The Guinness Book of Records also has mention duration of orgasms in pigs. Moreover, they are considered to be the longest living of any mammal. The average orgasm time for the entire species Sus scrofa domesticus - the domestic pig (without specifying the breed) - reaches 30 minutes, and the longest process lasted as much as 90 minutes. There are no clarifications in the recording, but most likely it was also about a male orgasm. At the same time, there is not enough research to unambiguously correlate orgasm in a pig with pleasure.

It was also not possible to find data on how long it takes female pigs to orgasm, but the time of male orgasm easily overlaps that indicated in the collections of entertaining facts.