Swoon!
She came. She screamed. She passed out.
Fainting during orgasm, or orgasmic syncope, is one of those things that happens more often in porn than in reality. But it does happen in reality. Usually it's nothing to worry about. But, just to be on the safe side...
Lay the faintee flat on her (for the purposes of discussion, we'll assume it's a "her") back. Check to make sure she's breathing and that her heart is beating regularly. If you don't know how to take a pulse, the front pages of your local phone book often have good basic instruction. (And take a good first-aid and CPR class soon, OK?)
If she's not breathing, and/or her pulse is irregular or absent, you've got a full-blown emergency on your hands. Call 911 immediately. If you know how to do CPR, get to work.
Another possibility that is quite serious is that she bore down so hard during her orgasm that she raised the blood pressure in her head and burst a blood vessel. If she doesn't regain consciousness quickly, if she vomits, or if she seems weak or uncoordinated (especially if it's only on one side of her body), call 911.
However, both of these possibilities are pretty unlikely. If she's breathing and her pulse is regular, leave her alone, and she'll come out of it soon. You can speed this process by putting a cold compress on her forehead and nudging her a bit. (You can be forgiven for having a few necrophiliac fantasies while you wait for her to come back.) She'll be cold when she wakes up, so it would be nice to have a blanket ready to wrap her in.
If you know ahead of time that you have a tendency to faint at Those Moments, it's considerate to let your partner know about it—having a partner pull the Sleeping Beauty routine without warning can be pretty upsetting.
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The Cult of Shrinking Violets
Apparently, this was quite in fashion in the late 1800s, where women were portrayed as fainting, sleeping or dead. Women were thought to be weak, sickly and close to death, which was a sign of their delicacy and breeding and it became a cult among the leisure class women. Exercise, outdoors and sunlight were shunned. Corset probably didn't help the matter either... From the book Idols of Perversity.
Too True to be Good
George Bernard Shaw's play "Too True to be Good," and the Preface he wrote for it, are on the topic of iatrogenic and otherwise artificial diseases of upper-class British women, in the Victorian Era. Shaw wrote from a homeopathic viewpoint, and regarded bacteria as symptoms of disease, rather than their causes. One can access that play and its prevace online, by means of a Google search.
This reminds me of the studies of Jean-Martin Charcot.
He was a French doctor, who developed neurology, and identified many diseases, including Lou Gehrig's Disease, long before Gehrig was ever born.
One of the conditions he identified was "hysteria," during which women had "fainting spells." This was often happening in the 19th Century, but was rare, thereafter. However, in the mid-1940s. there were accounts of girls "swooning" during performances of the then-youthful Frank Sinatra.
Charcot experimentally produced "hysteria," by hypnosis.
Wife Passed Out During Her Orgasm Today
Thanks for writing about this. My wife has had some pretty orgasms, but the one today was a bit scary. She said she felt fine...actually pretty good. But, during the moment of orgasm, she was breathing rather strangely through her mouth. I didn't know if this was because she has a cold, or because she was laying on her back with her head tipped back, or what! She was only out for a couple of seconds, but it was still scary. That's why I'm on here now looking around for some answers.