Orgasms: Come for the Science

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Science, Education, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

There’s this idea that the female orgasm is a complicated riddle, but for a man with a penis, getting off is easy peasy. Is there really an orgasm gap? And if so — can science explain it? To learn more, we talk to neuroscientist Dr. Nan Wise, neuroscientist Dr. Nicole Prause and psychologist Dr. Candice Hargons. Here’s a link to our transcript: https://bit.ly/340vQDV Learn more about Dr. Nicole Prause’s’s lab, the Liberos Center: https://www.liberoscenter.com/ Check out Dr. Nan Wise’s website and her book “Why Good Sex Matters”: https://askdoctornan.com/ And check out Dr. Candice Hargons' website: http://drcandicenicole.com/ Thanks to everyone who participated in our survey and shared your orgasm stories with us! This episode was produced by Hannah Harris Green, with help from Wendy Zukerman, Michelle Dang, Rose Rimler and Nick DelRose. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Fact checking by Eva Dasher. Mix and sound design by Peter Leonard. Music written by Peter Leonard, Marcus Bagala, Emma Munger, and Bobby Lord. Data Analysis by Morgan Green. Consulting by Rebecca Kling. Thanks to everyone we got in touch with for this episode including Dr. Adam Safron, Professor Larry Baskin, Professor Caroline Pukall, Dr. Laurence Levine, Dr. Jasmine Abrams, Dr. Justin Garcia, Dr. Laurie Mintz, Dr. Michael Brecht, Dr. Marcalee Alexander and Dr. Erica Marchand. A special thanks to the Zukerman family, Patty Harris, Richard Green and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Vestus from Gimlin.
0:04.1	This is the show that hits facts against feeling good.
0:10.0	Today's show, orgasms.
0:18.3	So I guess I'll tell you about the first orgasm I experienced.
0:22.0	You want to just like dive into this like straight ahead or are we going to circle back or
0:25.4	what?
0:26.4	Let's circle back for a sec.
0:28.0	This is Malika Grant.
0:29.2	She grew up in Ghana and now lives in South Africa.
0:32.3	And Malika runs a blog about the sex lives of women in Africa.
0:35.8	It's called Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women.
0:39.6	And one of the reasons that Malika started this is because growing up, the women around
0:44.1	her weren't talking about how to have orgasms.
0:46.8	It was like this big mystery.
0:49.9	Because I had so little education around sex and what to expect, I thought an orgasm
0:57.4	was supposed to look and feel one way like the shuttering on the movies and the screaming.
1:04.7	But from Malika, throughout her 20s, she never felt like that when she was having sex.
1:11.0	The guys who she'd have sex with, they would orgasm no worries.
1:14.6	But for her, it just didn't happen.
1:16.6	No matter how hard some of her partners tried.
1:20.0	I had one partner that just did everything in his power.
1:23.4	He was flipping me up this way and turning me back that way and going harder and going softer.
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