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How to Close the Orgasm Gap for Heterosexual Couples

Science Quickly

Scientific American

Science

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Researchers once faced death threats for asking women what gives them pleasure. Now they’re helping individuals and couples figure it out themselves. Part three of a four-part series on the science of pleasure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is like my vagina

0:31.0

and going up and down and kind of like brushing up against the kind of like a paintbrush.

0:36.0

There's this like whole world underneath people's clothing that no one talks about.

0:41.0

Our science in some ways is catching up with people's existences.

0:45.2

I'm Megan McDonough and you're listening to scientific Americans science quickly.

0:49.9

This is part three of a four-part fascination on the science of pleasure.

0:54.4

In this series we're asking what we can learn from those with marginalized experiences to explore

0:59.3

sexuality, get to the bottom of BDSM and illuminate asexuality.

1:04.0

In this episode we'll unpack why heterosexual women are having fewer orgasms than their male partners

1:10.0

and how researchers are bridging the gap.

1:19.0

So when I'm with a partner the first time, I'll take one of their fingers and I'll tell them just tap.

1:24.0

This is a woman explaining how she likes to be touched on the website O.M.G.

1:28.0

Yes, which offers guidance to individuals and couples on finding sexual pleasure, both through masturbation and with a partner.

1:35.7

This video is one of many how-to clips on everything from what the site has labeled layering.

1:40.6

My clip's really sensitive and touching it directly would be way too intense so I use

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