3 Sex Moves Boost The Odds Of Female Orgasm

We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about a study that linked greater levels of “interoception”, or body awareness, to a higher likelihood of orgasm among women.

“Our study empirically demonstrates that women need to get out of their heads and into their bodies in order to have more frequent and satisfying orgasms,” researcher Dr Megan Klabunde said.

And another paper published in Archives of Sexual Behaviour, which collected data from over 52,000 online surveys, found that the moves used during sex seemed to matter, too.

In this study, researchers asked a variety of respondents (men and women, who were a mix of gay, straight, and bisexual) about their experience with the Big O.

During sexually intimate moments, the percentages of people who said they always or usually orgasmed during sexual intimacy were:

• 95% for straight men,
• 65% for straight women,
• 89% for gay men,
• 86% for lesbian women,
• 88% for bisexual men,
• 66% for bisexual women.

No group of women finished more often than any of the groups of men, though among the ladies, lesbians got the best results. Not that straight men seemed fully aware of the extent of the discrepancy, as 45% said their partner always reached orgasm, whereas only 33% of heterosexual women said they did.

Perhaps a stat might provide clues as to why: about 30% of heterosexual men believed penetration was the best way to make women orgasm, whereas in this study, only 35% of women said they usually or often got off to vaginal sex alone.

44% of women said they rarely or never orgasmed from this type of intercourse.

80% of straight women, and 91% of women, however, said they usually or always orgasmed from manual genital stimulation, deep kissing, and/or oral sex.

Speaking to The Guardian, the study’s co-author, Professor Elisabeth Lloyd, said called this combination “the golden trio”.

The paper also found that women who orgasmed more often were likelier to receive oral sex, praise their partner in bed, make dirty calls, wear lingerie, and express love during the act.

They also acted out their fantasies more often and had higher odds of asking for what they wanted in the bedroom.

Seeing orgasm as the “point” of sex can paradoxically make your experience of it worse, thus lowering your chances of finishing, experts say. But if you’re not happy with your current rate and/or are looking to try something new, hey: science says theb “golden trio” might not be a bad place to start.