Why do your muscles contract and pulse during an orgasm (specifically women)?

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During orgasm, the muscles in the genital area contract and pulse, I know it’s pelvic floor muscles.. What I don’t understand is WHY they do that during orgasm. I believe it’s a release of tension or what have you… But why do other muscles of the body not contract, pulse, and feel pleasurable to that extent when they experience relief of tension?

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Things are the way they are because of evolution. But that doesn’t mean everything has a “purpose.” The other answers have provided the main reasons people think it happens, to facilitate getting the sperm to the egg. But I just wanted to make the point that there of lots of unnecessary and redundant things that evolved in the human body that are there simply because they don’t cause too many problems, so there’s no pressure for evolution to get rid of them.

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