Why Do Women Moan During Sex?
The Surprising Science of Female Sexual Vocalizations
When I was a teenager and just getting my sexual bearings, coming to sexual maturity and experimenting around, I found the idea of women moaning during sex to be quite odd, to say the least. Honestly, for a few years there I thought it was something that was done in porno movies, a sort of exaggeration of pleasure in the way that lipstick is an exaggeration of red, blood-filled and aroused lips or the way that foundation is an exaggeration of smooth, blemish-free skin that nobody really has.
To me, these were all relics of people trying to embellish certain traits to make themselves more sexually appealing. And thus, I already had a very infantile grasp of the concept of sexual competition. I think we all did, at that age, as we felt around for ourselves within ourselves, discovering who we really were, who we were to become, and as we nervously felt around the bodies of others on occasion. I figured it was just another case of life imitating art and art imitating life in a cycle that regurgitates what we see into what we practice, and what we practice then becomes what we see, and thus gets regurgitated into what we broadcast, and the cycle continues.
The Reality Check
