And, according to another recent study published in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, nearly 37 percent of women said they need some other sort of
stimulation during intercourse to achieve orgasm.
Not exact matches
No, we only ask you to abstain from sexual
intercourse during the time you are injecting the
stimulation medication and then directly following the retrieval, approximately three weeks.
This study provides the first U.S. nationally representative data on pathways to orgasm
during intercourse, noting that nearly 75 percent of women reported that clitoral
stimulation was either necessary for their
intercourse - orgasms, or helped their orgasms feel better, while 18 percent noted that vaginal penetration alone was sufficient for orgasm.
Kinsey's interviews with nearly 6,000 women, as well as subsequent surveys, revealed that the vast majority of women do not climax
during sexual
intercourse without direct
stimulation of the clitoris.
Most women need clitoral
stimulation to reach orgasm
during intercourse, says Zoldbrod.
In fact, only about half of women report being able to climax from penile movements alone
during sex and, even among those women, many of them report that they do not experience orgasm reliably.1 As a result, many women find that adding clitoral
stimulation to
intercourse (e.g., with the use of one's hand or a vibrator) or attempting different sexual activities is necessary to help them climax.
Interestingly, this same pattern held no matter the method used to achieve orgasm; that is, the effect of orgasm on disclosures was the same whether the woman orgasmed
during intercourse or from other
stimulation.