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How to Close the Orgasm Gap for Heterosexual Couples

Science Quickly

Scientific American

Science

4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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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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0:00.0

Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in.

0:05.8

Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years.

0:11.0

Yachtold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program.

0:20.1

To learn more about Yachtolt, yacult.co.com.j.

0:23.9

That's y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O-J-P.

0:28.4

When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on YacL.

0:32.2

This is like my vagina and going up and down and kind of like brushing up against

0:35.9

a kind of like a paintbrush.

0:38.3

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

0:43.5

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

0:47.4

I'm Megan McDonough and you're listening to Scientific Americans Science Quickly.

0:52.0

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

0:56.5

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

1:00.4

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

1:06.5

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

1:11.3

male partners, and how researchers are bridging the gap.

1:18.9

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

1:25.1

just tap.

1:26.2

This is a woman explaining how she likes to be touched on the website OMGES,

1:30.3

which offers guidance to individuals and couples on finding sexual pleasure,

1:35.3

both through masturbation and with a partner.

1:37.3

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

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