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The orgasm gap – and how to close it: ‘Don’t equate sex and penetration’

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The phrase doesn’t refer to those years of waiting, between discovering sex and meeting someone who does it right. That would be like calling a life sentence a gap year. Rather, it’s a play on the pay gap: the difference in the number of orgasms men and women report during straight sex. According to research by the condom manufacturer Durex, straight men have four times as many orgasms as straight women, although that fudges the figures a little: 20% of men and 5% of women answered “always” when asked whether they orgasm during sexual encounters. ♥   Download All 25 Reads For MEN Books in PDF & EPUB The International Academy of Sex Research conducted a more rigorous study in 2017 and found that 95% of heterosexual men said they usually or always orgasmed when sexually intimate, followed by 89% of gay men, 88% of bisexual men, 86% of lesbian women, 66% of bisexual women and 65% of straight women. If orgasm parity between genders and sexualities was your goal, you might say women...