Gender disparities abound in our society. The gender pay gap, for starters, shows that the labor of men is valued more than that of women. Women hold less than 20 percent of congressional seats in the U.S., which makes for a great disparity in political representation. Women are considerably underrepresented as writers and directors of film and television, and as artists in our nation’s museums. They are also more likely than men to live in poverty. There’s another gender gap, ideologically connected to these, which at first glance, may strike readers as a sexy gender gap. However, it is deeply un-sexy. I’m talking about the orgasm gap. The orgasm gap is a rigorously documented disparity in the rates at which men and women achieve orgasm during sexual encounters together. A nationwide survey of sexual practices found that women report only 1 orgasm for every 3 reported by a man.
Some argue that this gap exists because women take a long time to achieve orgasm, or because it is difficult to produce an orgasm in a woman. Others suggest that women don’t orgasm as frequently because we don’t “need” to in the way that men do, or that women are naturally more giving as sexual partners. Some might suggest that women are not interested in sexual climax, but rather with the cuddling that sometimes follows it. But, lesbians are here to prove all of that wrong. The survey of sexual practices cited above found that women who have sex with women achieve orgasm far more frequently than do women who have sex with men. This study also found that women easily and regularly achieve orgasm through masturbation — even those who suffer the orgasm gap with men. And, way back in 1953, the Kinsey study found that both men and women take about 4 minutes on average to achieve orgasm through masturbation. Read more...
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