December 30, pm Updated July 26, am. Researchers at the University of Albany have been quizzing young women in heterosexual relationships about their sex lives — and, importantly, how intensely and frequently they experience the big O. The study found that women were more likely to climax if their partners were rich, confident and attractive — while the intensity of their orgasms also depended on how good-looking their man is. Researchers also found that it really is possible to laugh a woman into bed — with women having more regular sex, and more frequent orgasms, with funny men. Read Next.
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Verified by Psychology Today. Women Who Stray. Remember that delightful scene in the movie When Harry Met Sally , in which Sally demonstrates her ability to fake an orgasm while sitting in a restaurant with Harry? Interestingly, recent research found that heterosexual women actually orgasm less than other women, though this can't entirely be blamed on the men, and may relate other characteristics of these women. A hundred years ago or less , women who were orgasmic were at risk of being diagnosed as nymphomaniacs.
Why Men Care So Damn Much About Knowing When You've Had An Orgasm
Photo by Nabi Tang via Stocksy. A study published in in the Journal of Sex Research found that men view the female orgasm as an opportunity to confirm their manhood. These findings, courtesy of two University of Michigan researchers, suggest that men who think sexually pleasing women is important are really doing it to please themselves. Thanks to the sexual scripts society assigns people, men often feel like they have to "prove themselves through symbolically masculine achievements," the study's authors write. Because previous research has shown men gleaning sexual satisfaction from a woman coming, the authors were interested in finding out if men view female orgasms as a "masculinity achievement.
Faking it may be affecting him in ways you never thought of before! Recent research has found that heterosexual women orgasm less than women who identify with any other sexual orientation, and while the reasons for this are likely complex and may not lie entirely on the shoulders of their male partners, it does raise several questions, particularly these:. In essence, the researchers asked this question: Does giving women orgasms make men feel more manly? It likely comes as little surprise to most readers that the research affirmed the hypothesis that men felt more masculine when imagined their female partner being orgasmic with them. Here are four of the major discoveries the study revealed about how female orgasms affect men's sense of their own manliness.