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Science Vs

Orgasms: Your Favorite Sex Episode!

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.412.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Here’s the episode you picked as our best sex and sexual health episode: Orgasms! 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.  Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/SVFavSexEp 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. Mix and sound design of this episode was by Bobby Lord. Mix and sound design of our original episode was 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.  Science Vs is a Spotify Studios Original. Listen for free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us and tap the bell for episode notifications.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, Wendy here. This month we're playing our science versus greatest hits album. Yeah.

0:07.0

You're voted for your favorite science versus episodes of all time and we are busting them out.

0:13.6

Today we have the winner of the sex category. Battling it out where our episodes on sex addiction,

0:20.3

heartbreak, online dating, the runner up was the fertility cliff, which we heard people made babies

0:29.2

because of that episode. So hey, hey, science versus babies out there, but it didn't win the

0:36.3

clear winner of the sex category. The episode which came out on top was orgasms. So without

0:45.2

further ado, here's that episode. This is the show that hits facts against feeling good.

1:06.0

On today's show, orgasms. So I guess I'll tell you about the first orgasm I experience.

1:12.7

You want to just like dive into this like straight ahead or are we going to circle back or what?

1:16.9

Let's circle back for a sec. This is Malika Grant. She grew up in Ghana and now lives in South Africa.

1:22.9

And Malika runs a blog about the sex lives of women in Africa. It's called Adventures from the

1:27.9

Bedrooms of African Women. And one of the reasons that Malika started this is because growing up,

1:34.2

the women around her weren't talking about how to have orgasms. It was like this big mystery.

1:40.1

Because I had so little education around sex and what to expect, I thought an orgasm was supposed to

1:49.2

look and feel one way like, you know, the shuttering on, you know, in the movies and, you know, in the

1:54.1

screaming. But for Malika, throughout her 20s, she never felt like that when she was having sex.

2:01.7

The guys who she'd have sex with, they would orgasm no worries. But for her, it just didn't happen.

2:07.4

No matter how hard some of her partners tried, you know, I had one partner that just did

2:12.5

everything in his power. He was like flipping me up this way and turning me back that way and,

2:18.7

you know, going harder and going softer. And so finally, I was just like, oh, here I come. And so

2:24.5

I start to like vibrate and shutter and go, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And he was like,

2:30.1

what are you doing? I'm like, I'm coming. But I wasn't. And so it was like, I was really trying to

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