An Australian study of 9000 women has concluded that women who have been to university are more likely to have orgasms. At least, that’s if you believe the news reports.
CTV reports that having higher levels of education or income result in a higher frequency of orgasm.
It’s not the framed certificate or the money that makes the difference, of course. It all comes down to knowing more about one’s own sexual needs and then doing it properly.
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What’s more, closer reading of the report itself says that women are more likely to reach climax if:
– They’re aged over 19
– They’re in a stable relationship
– They use sex toys
– They have sex more than twice a week
– They engage in a varied number of sex practices e.g. manual stimulation, oral, kissing, “dry humping during sexual encounters.
In a generally unsurprising result, the researchers found that men had an orgasm 98.4% of the time, while women only came 68.9% of the time. Same old, same old.
Funny that most news outlets chose to focus on the “educated” angle, rather than come up with the headline: Women don’t come as often because people still don’t have sex properly. I guess that’s a little unwieldy for the front page. And it doesn’t allow graduate women to smile a little smug smile and feel thankful for their higher education debts.
I found myself laughing at this paragraph, describing one possible cause of the discrepancy in orgasms between men and women:
One possible explanation… is that men want sex more often than women, with the result that in established couples, some of the sexual interactions are what women popularly call “mercy fucks” or “freebies.”
Now, how many scientific research papers do you know of that regularly use the term “mercy fuck”?
In the end, the researchers conclude that frequency of female orgasm is essentially related to the ways in which people have sex.
Our findings suggest, however, that the proximal cause — the sexual stimulation delivered to women in the typical, rigidly-scripted heterosexual interaction—has more to do with whether they reach orgasm (and, we suspect, enjoy sex) than with more obscure and distant causes.
Yep, it all comes back to the age-old belief that penis-in-vagina is the ultimate goal of sex – and the fact that this doesn’t serve women very well. It’s over 30 years since Shere Hite pointed this out, but it’s always nice to have new research to back it up.
Now, after all that dry academic discussion… why not take time out and visit my new Female Orgasm category at Quirky Sex.