Women with female sexual partners are more likely to have consistent orgasms than women with male partners, according to a new study.
About 78 percent of sexual experiences with female partners led to orgasm, compared to 65 percent of those with men.
The psychologists behind the study, Rutgers UniversityThey say the findings do not mean there is an “inherent” problem with heterosexual sex, but rather that foreplay, rather than intercourse, should be practiced more frequently.
The researchers conducted a two-phase study involving almost 1,000 women.
In the first phase, researchers asked 476 lesbian or heterosexual women to report their experience with their most recent sexual partner.
Women in relationships with other women were more likely to achieve orgasm
They found that lesbian women were 20 percent more likely to have orgasms with recent partners, compared to the heterosexual group.
In the second phase, the researchers asked 481 bisexual women to talk about hypothetical scenarios with both male and female partners.
Half of the group imagined themselves with a woman and the other half imagined themselves with a man.
They then rated their imagined scenarios on a scale of one to seven based on how likely they thought they were to have an orgasm. One was very unlikely and seven was very probable.
When they imagined sex with a man, women reported a score of 4.88 compared to 5.86 when they imagined sex with a woman.
In both studies, women reported that their partners paid more attention to their clitoris, making them more likely to reach orgasm, compared to their male partners.
Additionally, the researchers discovered a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy: If a woman was partnered with another woman, she was more likely to expect to achieve orgasm. And when a woman expects to reach orgasm, she is more likely to achieve it, they wrote.
When women feel empowered in bed and deserve pleasure, they are more likely to orgasm, according to psychologists. CUNY Graduate Center in New York.
Focusing more on the clitoris could help improve the orgasm gap between men and women, experts say.
The researchers suggest that their study offers some support for the “orgasm gap” theory, which suggests that heterosexual women have less pleasurable sexual experiences than heterosexual men.
Studies show that women are 30 percent less likely reach orgasm than their male counterparts.
Kate Dickman, one of the Rutgers psychologists, said their study “sheds light on why the orgasm gap exists; specifically, how different sexual expectations between men and women may explain these differences.”
The gap doesn’t exist because women are impossible to please, according to Laura Mintzpsychologist from the University of Florida.
Research has shown that when they masturbate, at least 92 percent of women report an orgasm, Mintz wrote for Conversation.
“The main reason for the orgasm gap, then, is that women are not getting the clitoral stimulation they need,” Ms. Mintz wrote.
This could be because they don’t know where to look. About half of young men surveyed earlier this year reported that they didn’t know where their clitoris was, researchers at the University of Florida reported.
The authors of the new study suggest that those who wish to help their female partner achieve orgasm should “create an environment that encourages the pursuit of orgasm through various sexual acts, particularly those involving clitoral stimulation.”