Female sexuality
Understanding women's sexual & emotional needs
Understanding women’s sexual and emotional needs
Sadly researchers are often just as impressed with far-fetched accounts of female orgasm as the general public. Academics debate pure conjecture such as ‘female...
Women are turned on more by fantasy than reality
Men are aroused by thinking about sexual activity with someone they find attractive. Only two thirds (69%) of women ever have erotic fantasies. The...
Women’s arousal depends on a more indirect mechanism
Men are turned on as a direct consequence of their drive to penetrate (a female) and thrust until ejaculation. A woman lacks this drive....
Female arousal is more deeply buried in the subconscious
Sexual phenomena (such as masturbation or gay sex) tend to be shocking and alien until we discover we enjoy them. Similarly once we experience...
Understanding what works: erotic versus emotional stimuli
If men were attracted to responsive women presumably they would appreciate a woman who could orgasm within say 5 seconds of being stimulated. In...
Relatively few women use a vibrator to masturbate
Sex toys are a useful addition to a couple’s sex play: to take the pressure off a man’s erection and to provide erotic stimulation...
The G-spot explains the orgasms women think they have
Inexperienced women explore various parts of their body before discovering orgasm but most women (84%) masturbate by stimulating the clitoris. Yet some women today...