Study finds women still get screwed on orgasms and the blame doesnt just fall on men

If this was a newspaper and not a nice shiny website plugged into the wall with a few blue cables coming out the back, then there is only one headline we would use on this story: Come again?Today we have new research out of the US where some academics have dedicated themselves to the burning question: Why aren’t women having more orgasms?Sadly, big tech, big pharma and big porn, despite being industries worth a combined $21 trillion, have failed to solve this.Enter a new study that has some answers.Published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, this research has identified what is really going wrong in the bedroom — we are suffering from an Orgasm Pursuit Gap (OGP).

That is, how much perceived effort, both partners, put into a woman orgasming.The study found that, essentially, straight men and women both prioritize the man getting there (sly wink) and that far less effort, on everyone’s part, went into the woman achieving similar results.Sigh.Great.

Just great.We (writing as a cis gender woman) are, statistically, paid less, do more housework and childcare, report higher rates of feeling rushed and pressed for time, and are more likely to die of stroke.And now, it turns out that we are being even further short-changed in the bedroom.Who do we ask for a refund?The study was led by Carly Wolfer, a doctoral candidate in social psychology at City University of New York, who asked 127 people in heterosexual relationships aged 18-40-years-old to keep sex diaries for three weeks, a span which ultimately tracked 566 sexual events.Ms Wolfer found that men orgasmed during 90 percent of their sexual encounters while women only got to the same place just over half the time, at 54 percent.It gets worse.

Not only are men 15 times more likely to orgasm than women but when they do they have more satisfying orgasms.(Programming note: I vehemently refuse to use the word ‘climax’.We are not trapped in the early aughties badlands of mags doing stories ...