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New Jersey, Most women have difficulty reach the orgasm, even some of it could not reach the orgasm at all. Now the latest research about brain can reveal the secrets behind the female orgasm.

By using a scanner to observe part of the female brain that become active when stimulated, the researchers found there were two paths that are used in the brains of women to reach the orgasm.

One of them is active when women make their own sex and fantasy with the help of her imagination. While the other channels is active when women are involved in a physical relationship that is stimulated by their partner.

This discovery was revealed in New Scientist which is the result of two research studies.

The first study conducted on single women (without spouse), led by Dr. Barry Komisaruk of Rutgers University in New Jersey, using an analysis of MRI scans to study the role of imagination and physiological responses in women to reach the orgasm.

Dr. Komisaruk find more high activity in 30 areas of the brain, including prefrontal cortex, which in the areas that control functions such as decision making, control and imagination.

Conversely, when Janniko Georgiadis and colleagues from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands perform similar experiments to observe the women who were stimulated by the couple, they found that the same brain areas (during orgasm with imagination) are not active during orgasm with a partner.

This shows that the orgasm that occurs with stimulation from the partner is reached due to the change of consciousness. The inability to do so may make a woman can not climax or reach the orgasm.

"I do not think that orgasm can be turn off the consciousness but it changing it. When you ask people how they perceive of a orgasm, they would describe the feeling of losing control," said Georgiadis, as reported by Newscientist, Friday (05/20/2011).

Both studies showed that the female brain has an alternative path to reach the sexual pleasure, whether with their own imagination or with a partner.

Scientists believe that further study about orgasm and the role of the prefrontal cortex can help women who experience difficulty in achieving orgasm.

Some efforts have also been done by researchers to conduct similar studies in males, but obstructed by technical problems. Orgasm in men is much shorter than women and some women may be surprised to find that only a few men use his brain during sexual intercourse.

And Dr. Komisaruk hopes further research will offer valuable insight into how people can use thoughts to control other physical sensations, like pain.