Question 3

Osho,

What is the connection between laughter and sex?

 

 

Anand Devopama, there is certainly a connection; the connection is simple. Sexual orgasms and laughter happen in the same way; their process is similar. In sexual orgasm you go on reaching a climax of tension. You are coming closer and closer to burst forth, and then at the peak, suddenly, the orgasmic release happens. After such a mounting tension, everything suddenly relaxes. The contrast between the mounting tension and the relaxation is so vast that you feel as if you have fallen into a calm, quiet ocean – a deep relaxation, a deep let-go.

 

That’s why nobody has ever been known to have died from a heart attack while making love. This is strange, because love-making is an arduous exercise! It is great yoga! But nobody has ever died for the simple reason that it brings such relaxation. In fact, cardiologists and heart specialists have now started recommending sex as medicinal to the people who are suffering from heart trouble. Sex can be of immense help to them; it relaxes tensions, and when the tensions are gone, your heart functions more naturally.

 

The same is the process of laughter: it also builds up a tension in you. A certain story, and you go on expecting that something is going to happen. Then when something really happens it is so unexpected that it releases the tension. The happening is not logical – that is the most important thing to understand about laughter. The happening has to be ridiculous, it has to be absurd. If you can logically conclude it, then there will be no laughter.

 

While you are listening to a joke, if you can logically conclude what is going to happen, and if it actually happens the way you concluded, then there will be no laughter because there will be no build-up of tension in the first place; and secondly, there will be no sudden change. These two things are needed: a building up of tension so you become more and more narrowed, more and more tense, and then suddenly an unexpected turn – the punch line. It triggers a new process; the whole logic falls flat. All jokes are illogical, and because they are illogical they bring great laughter to you.

 

In one other sense also sex and laughter are joined together deep in the mind. Your sex organs are only the outermost part of your sexuality; the sex is not really there, the sex is somewhere in the brain center. So, sooner or later man is going to get rid of this old-style sexuality. It is really ridiculous! That’s why people make love in the dark, at night, under the blankets. It is such an absurd activity that if you watch yourself making love, you will never think of it again! So people hide; they close their doors, they lock their doors. They are very much afraid of children in particular, because they will see the absurdity immediately – “What are you doing? Daddy, what are you doing? Have you gone crazy?” And it looks crazy – it is like an epileptic fit!

 

Sooner or later it is going to be changed, because now science has found that the real center is in the brain, not in the sex organs. So now a small electrode can be fitted in the head, and you need not know about it, because inside the skull there is no sensitivity at all; anything can be put there. Even if a small rock is put there you will not know. In fact, that’s how many people are – they are carrying rocks inside, not knowing! So a small electrode can be put inside your brain, just inserted inside your brain close to the sex center, and you can use a remote control. You can keep the remote control in your pocket so that whenever you feel like having an orgasm, you just push it. Just a little push on the button will trigger the sex center in the brain, and you can have an orgasm anywhere!

 

Then you can discard this wife, this husband, this relationship, and all this nonsense. It will be a great freedom! In fact, it is the only way humanity will be liberated. All the buddhas have failed; they could not liberate you from sex. Now Delgado is the name of the latest person who is going to free you from all sexuality. He has freed many white rats! Sometimes I wonder why they never try black rats. Maybe they think that they are Indians and may not like the idea because they are religious people, spiritual. They always try white rats!

 

But you will be surprised to know – and it is good to remember – that whenever he tried with rats, a very strange thing happened. That’s what prevented him from making it a device on the market available to anybody wanting to purchase it. The thing that stopped him was that when he fixed the electrode inside the head of the white rat and showed him the remote control button, the rat pushed the switch in front of him and went through a beautiful spasm, a total orgasmic joy. And then Delgado watched….

 

The rat looked all around, and seeing that nobody was looking, he pushed the button, and went through it again. You will be surprised: in one hour, he pushed the button six thousand times – till he died! He forgot all about food, forgot all about everything. Beautiful damsels were passing by, and he didn’t even care about all those beautiful girls after whom he had been going crazy; there was no need now.

 

No woman can give a man such a total orgasm, and no man can give a woman such a total orgasm, because the sexual organs are far away from the center. By the time the message reaches to the center, it is already very, very diluted. Hence, ninety-seven percent of women never achieve orgasmic joy. And those are Western statistics. Ninety-seven percent in America – what to say about India? I don’t think I have ever come across a single woman who has said that she achieves orgasmic joy. She cannot – the culture does not allow it. She has to lie down almost dead. She simply suffers the whole foolishness of the man, and deep down she thinks that this man is a sinner dragging her into hell. She is not interested at all because she knows nothing about orgasmic joy. And her orgasmic joy is far more profound than man’s. Her whole body is erotic; man’s whole body is not erotic. He is only partially erotic, locally erotic.

 

These centers of sex and laughter are very close in the brain, so sometimes they can overlap. So when you are making love, if you really allow it, the woman will start giggling. It tickles, because the center is very close! She may not giggle just out of politeness, because the man may feel offended – but the centers are very close together, and sometimes when you are really in deep laughter you may have the same orgasmic joy as you have in sex.

 

It is not a coincidence that many beautiful jokes are sexual. The centers are so close…what can I do?

 

The wealthy woman woke up, looked around her bedroom, then rang for her Chinese houseboy, Fu Ling.

 

She asked him how she got home the night before, and he said, “I bring missy home.”

 

Then she asked him how she got undressed. Fu Ling said, “I undress missy.”

 

She asked then how she got into bed, and he said, “I put missy to bed.”

 

Whereupon she said, “God, I must have been tight!”

 

Fu Ling replied, “First time, yes, missy! Second time…no!”

 

Makowski, the agent, called his friend Lyssky, the producer of striptease shows.

 

“Lyssky,” he shouted, “I’ve got a girl for you that is gonna make a fortune for both of us. She is incredible – gotta a pair of lungs that will knock your eyes out! Listen to these statistics: hips – forty; waist – twenty-seven; chest – ninety-nine!”

 

“Incredible!” said Lyssky. “What kind of act does she do?”

 

“Act? What act?! She just crawls out and tries to stand up!”
 

The newlyweds arrived at their honeymoon hotel. The excited groom, quite pleased with his reputation as a lover, and eager to thrill his bride with his expertise, quickly threw her upon the bed and performed with the

 

skill of a champion sexual athlete.

 

When it was over he whispered to his bride, “Ah yes, my dear, I could tell how pleased you were – I noticed your toes curling up in ecstasy. I promise you I will always bring you such joy!”

 

She whispered in reply, “Perhaps next time, Romeo, you could remove my pantyhose first!”

 

Enough for today.

 

-Osho, "Come, Come, Yet Again Come, #11, Q3"