{"title":"Observations of Inequality between Female and Male Sexual Pleasure: ‘Good Enough’ Vs ‘Ideal’ Expectations","authors":"Lily Reed","doi":"10.47363/jsmr/2023(2)113","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"I pose a question for the readers. If I have a vulva, am I ‘hard work’, and is my orgasm ‘less important’ than that of a penis owner? I hope that for most, the answer is no, of course not. If you are a vulva owner who can confidently pronounce this, well done you. However, in my practice I commonly observe cognitive dissonance. If our sexual pleasure is equal, why have I bore witness to female clients disproportionately dismissing their orgasms in comparison to their male counterparts? Cue the broken record of female pleasure… “It’s taking a while, don’t worry about me”. The orgasm gap grows.","PeriodicalId":194958,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Sexual Medicine & Research","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Sexual Medicine & Research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.47363/jsmr/2023(2)113","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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I pose a question for the readers. If I have a vulva, am I ‘hard work’, and is my orgasm ‘less important’ than that of a penis owner? I hope that for most, the answer is no, of course not. If you are a vulva owner who can confidently pronounce this, well done you. However, in my practice I commonly observe cognitive dissonance. If our sexual pleasure is equal, why have I bore witness to female clients disproportionately dismissing their orgasms in comparison to their male counterparts? Cue the broken record of female pleasure… “It’s taking a while, don’t worry about me”. The orgasm gap grows.