Study Highlights the Importance of Relationship Quality on Women’s Orgasms
Relationship quality is one factor that influences women’s ability to orgasm.
There’s been a lot of chatter about the orgasm gap the last few years. There have also been a lot of hurt feelings. The topic has separated the professionals from the amateurs. Some guys reflexively cringe whenever someone suggests they might not be blowing women’s minds every time they hop in the sack.
Science discussing the orgasm gap goes as far back as the 1990s when it was referenced in the book The Sexual Organization of Society: Sexual Practices in the United States. The book responded to a 1992 study that noticed a discrepancy between men and women.
The History of the Gap
In a later study titled Variation in Orgasm Occurrence, researchers found a gap in the number of orgasms, with men having orgasms 85.5 percent of the time to women’s 61.6 percent for heterosexual participants. This means that for the 23.9 percent gap, men were doing their job 61.6 percent of the time.
More recent studies have explored the issue in greater detail.
A study titled Differences in Orgasm Frequency Among Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Men and Women in a…
