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  • Despite being an O-mazing and near universal phenomenon

  • There's still a lot of speculation around the orgasms function and value

  • But what are the differences between male and female orgasm that we know of and who has it better

  • To start the length of a woman's orgasm is longer than men lasting around 20 seconds or more

  • While most men tend to last around 3 to 10 seconds

  • but men have more orgasms

  • In a national australian survey of heterosexual sex, researchers found that men had an orgasm 95% of encounters

  • Wile women did only 69% of the time

  • However orgasm might have less to do with gender and more to do with the types of sex you're having

  • For example, a study of single americans aged 21 to 26 found that while straight and gay men's rate of orgams is simiar

  • The rate of orgasms rate for women vary very significantly by sexual orientation

  • Lebians have around 12% more orgasm than straigh women during sex

  • With 25& of gay women saying they climax with every sexual expirience and almost half saying they climax over 75% of the time

  • This may be related to the duration of sexual encounters

  • As lesbian couples reported an average length of 30 to 45 minutes

  • In comparison to the average of 15 to 30 minutes by straight women

  • Other explanation point to genetics

  • Studies of 4.000 females twins found that genetics predict the thrids of the probabilities that a woman orgasm during sex

  • But what about the way an orgasm feels?

  • Studies of college students asked men and women to describe their expiriences of an orgasm

  • and then later took out the words related to specific genitals

  • And it turns out that there was very little distinguishable difference between sexes

  • Regardless of your gender the brain stimulates blood flow to the genitals and your hearthbeat and breathing increase

  • While ... scans show significant differences in activation patterns during sexual arousal

  • Brain activity during and orgasm itself , it's the same between men and women

  • The lateral orbital frontal cortex which controls self-evaluation, reason and control shuts down in all genders

  • Which makes sense as you often lose control during an orgasm

  • And the similarities don't stop there

  • Both genders get drowsy after orgasm due to the surge in the sleeping hormone prolactine

  • Interestingly 4 times as much prolactin is realeased after intercourse compared to orgasm achieve via masturbation

  • Meaning you don't get sleepy after a solo session

  • And what we once thought was spontaneous orgams during sleep otherwise known as wet dreams were only for men

  • One study reports that 37% of women have had nocturnal orgasms

  • 30% had had one in the past year

  • Even muliple orgasm. A phenomeon thought to be exclusively for women

  • as they lack of refractory period

  • has been seen in men as well

  • Though men orgasms generally happens simultaneously with ejaculation

  • Research has documented that men are capable of non ejaculatory orgasm

  • That can occur prior to as well as afer ejaculation

  • This shared experience of the orgasm makes sense from a evulationary perspective

  • Just like when you see someone cry and feel sad for them because you understand it

  • Observing or being part of a partner's orgams can enhanse the desire and experience of your own

  • If we had completely different orgasms the same connection wouldn't be there

  • At the end of the day, while sexual arousal may be different for men and women

  • Major difference in orgasm experiences likely come down to the individual level

  • Differences in physiology, anatomy and our psychology play huge role

  • So get to know your own body to optimize your sexual experiences

  • You can always learn even more about sexual pleasure during your solo session in our video

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