To hear a woman say she achieved a vaginal orgasm is a rare occurrence. Historically, there has been a large knowledge gap when it comes to the science of female orgasms. The same study found that less than 1 in 5 women are able to orgasm through vaginal stimulation. As it happens, achieving vaginal orgasm is a challenging task that requires concentration, lubrication, a vibrator, some weird positions, and exercises. Here are some tips to help you experience one and keep it coming.
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If you're a woman who finds climaxing easy and can have orgasms during intercourse with little effort — even in a position where it's difficult for your partner to access the clitoris with the fingertips — then you are very lucky indeed! For the majority of us, 'ringing that bell' is not nearly so simple. Even women who can masturbate to a climax with no difficulty can feel quite anxious about 'coming' with a male partner. This doesn't seem fair, because apart from the small minority of men who have psychological difficulties with sex and who cannot relax enough to ejaculate into their partner delayed ejaculation , most males have no problem at all in climaxing during sexual intercourse. But of course, in a man, the penis is the pleasure-provider. And clearly a penis gets a lot of stimulation during intercourse. Women, as you probably know, get their pleasurable feelings mostly from the clitoris — which is the bit of them that would have turned into a penis had they developed into a baby boy in the womb, instead of into a girl.
A leading blog on the science of sex, love, and relationships, written by social psychologist Dr. Justin Lehmiller. Can you point me to the sources of said statistics and could you explain what exactly "penetration alone" means? Thanks for your question. Unfortunately, I cannot point you to a scientific source for these statistics because I am not sure where they came from and I don't think they are completely accurate.
A study published last month in The Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy found that nearly 37 percent of American women required clitoral stimulation to experience orgasm , compared with 18 percent of women who said that vaginal penetration alone was enough to come. According to Debby Herbenick , a researcher at the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University, the results of this study revealed women's wide range of preferences when it came to how they liked being touched during sex. The study, which was conducted in partnership with OMGYes , a company focused on "the science of women's pleasure," surveyed more than 1, women between the ages of 18 and