Women’s Sexual Satisfaction, Communication, and Reasons for (No Longer) Faking Orgasm: Findings from a U.S. Probability Sample

Herbenick, Debby; Eastman-Mueller, Heather; Fu, Tsu‐Tan; Dodge, Brian; Ponander, Kia; Sanders, Stephanie A.

doi:10.1007/s10508-019-01493-0

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“…Examples of the pleasure-promoting techniques identified in the semi-structured interviews are presented in Table 1. In the second stage of research (2015), using findings gleaned from the qualitative study, the fourth and sixth authors designed a nationally representative survey (OMGYES Pleasure Report: Women and Touch) in collaboration with the first author of the papers describing results from that survey (Herbenick et al, 2018(Herbenick et al, , 2019. The OMGYES Pleasure Herbenick et al (2018).…”

Section: Overview Of Omgyescom Development Design and Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While research suggests that women want to effectively communicate with their partners about sexual preferences (Frederick et al, 2017), there is a gulf between the abstract idea of communicating and the reality of verbalizing specific feedback about genital touch to a partner "in the moment." Other research funded by OMGyes.com demonstrated that the most prevalent reason women gave for not communicating their pleasure preference to their partner was not wanting to hurt their partner's feelings, not being comfortable going into detail, thinking it would be embarrassing and not knowing how to ask (Herbenick et al, 2019). Within our working framework of developing a safe sexual learning space by connecting users with "role models," we expected that listening to peers model the specific ways they give partners feedback, in real time, would help users choose and implement a strategy for themselves (Chalfen et al, 2010;Gage, 2013;Gage-Bouchard et al, 2017;Rich, 2004;Ziebland & Wyke, 2012).…”

Section: Primary Design Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“OMG, Yes!”: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of an Online Intervention for Female Sexual Pleasure

Hensel

Hippel²,

Sandidge³

et al. 2021

The Journal of Sex Research

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary efficacy of using an online educational resource that presents research-informed strategies for women's pleasure, OMGyes. com, as a resource to empower women to broaden the ways in which they understand, advocate for, and enjoy sexual pleasure. A cohort of 870 adult women was given access to OMGyes.com and asked to explore the resource over a four-week period and complete online pre/post questionnaires. Participants reported a high level of satisfaction with the relatability, usefulness, and functionality of OMGyes.com. We observed statistically significant, large effect size increases in participants' knowledge about their own pleasure preferences, their confidence and positivity about that knowledge, as well as how pleasurable their sexual experiences were during both masturbation and partner sex. Many participants reported that after using OMGyes.com they felt more motivated to explore their preferences and more confident to explain their preferences to their partners. Our data suggest that OMGyes.com may be useful for positively impacting how women think about sexual pleasure, how they understand their own specific preferences, how they advocate for what they enjoy with partners, and how they actually experience pleasure.

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Section: Overview Of Omgyescom Development Design and Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Primary Design Featuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“OMG, Yes!”: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of an Online Intervention for Female Sexual Pleasure

Hensel

Hippel²,

Sandidge³

et al. 2021

The Journal of Sex Research

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“…It is pointed out that adults should be educated about sex, especially in terms of learning open dialogue between partners. Sexual partners should be bold in talking about their sexual preferences, so that a woman can also enjoy her sexual activity [21].…”

Section: Women's Psychological Problems In Connection With the Decision To Breastfeedmentioning

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Psychological and medical advantages of breastfeeding; the role of psychological consultations for women after birth

Okoniewska¹,

Gwiazdowska-Stańczak²,

Dobrowolska³

2021

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Human milk is the best food for newborns. A lot of doctors and specialists connected with obstetrics devote themselves to informing and encouraging women to breastfeed; however, there are still problems with deciding on such a way of feeding the infant. Some women still have little knowledge about the medical and psychological advantages of breastfeeding for the newborn and herself. The article discusses the advantages of breastfeeding and the psychological problems that may block women from deciding on such a way of breastfeeding. Among the most common barriers are social pressure, a rapid desire to return to work and the anxiety associated with it, stress, postpartum depression, and lack of knowledge about the advantages of human milk. It is very important to take up this subject because often women do not breastfeed because of psychological rather than medical problems. In such a situation it is worth recommending, as well as diagnostic tests and lactation advice, also psychological consultation. StreszczenieKobiece mleko jest najlepszym pokarmem dla noworodków. Bardzo dużo lekarzy i specjalistów związanych z położnictwem poświęca się informowaniu i zachęcaniu kobiet do karmienia piersią, wciąż jednak istnieją problemy związane z podjęciem decyzji o takim sposobie karmienia niemowlęcia. Część kobiet wciąż ma niewielką wiedzę o medycznych i psychologicznych zaletach karmienia piersią dla dziecka i dla nich samych. Artykuł podejmuje zagadnienie zalet karmienia piersią oraz problemów psychologicznych, które mogą powstrzymywać kobiety przed decyzją o takim sposobie karmienia. Do najczęściej spotykanych barier należą: presja społeczna, chęć szybkiego powrotu do pracy zawodowej i lęk z tym związany, stres, depresja poporodowa oraz brak wiedzy dotyczącej zalet ludzkiego mleka. Podejmowanie tego tematu jest bardzo ważne, ponieważ często zdarza się tak, że kobieta nie karmi piersią z powodu problemów o podłożu psychologicznym, a nie medycznym. Warto w takiej sytuacji zalecić, oprócz badań diagnostycznych i porad laktacyjnych, także konsultację psychologiczną.

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“…We are not suggesting that women are passive in their adoption of the dominant discourses around orgasmic absence. It is clear from the existing research of women's accounts of orgasmic absence that women are aware and critical of the dominant meanings given to the absence of orgasm (e.g., Bell & McClelland, 2018;Cacchioni, 2007;Herbenick et al 2019;Lavie-Ajayi, 2005;Lafrance et al, 2017aLafrance et al, , 2017bNicolson & Burr, 2003). For instance, in Nicolson and Burr's (2003), Lavie-Ajayi's (2005), and Bell and McClelland's (2018) research, several female participants reported that orgasmic absence was a part of life and hence should not be of a major concern.…”

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“Damned if you do, damned if you don’t”: Women’s accounts of feigning sexual pleasure

Stelzl

Lafrance

2020

Feminism & Psychology

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Faking orgasm has been identified as a common practice among women and feminist scholars have probed the connections between the socio-cultural meanings associated with faking and heterosex. Expanding on this line of inquiry, feigning sexual pleasure was explored in interviews with 14 women who reported having sex with men. Using a feminist critical discourse analytic approach, we attend to the dilemma that was frequently evoked in women’s accounts. Participants explained that feigning sexual pleasure was done in order to protect their partners’ ego. However, participants also talked about faking orgasm as being problematic in the sense that it was “deceitful” and “dishonest”. These contrasting discursive patterns created a dilemma whereby faking was situated as “necessary” but “dishonest”. As a way of negotiating this dilemma, participants made a distinction between exaggerating sexual pleasure and faking orgasm. We posit that exaggeration can be interpreted as a form of material (during the sexual encounter) and discursive (during accounting of the encounter) disruption of dominant discourses of heterosex such as the orgasmic imperative. Drawing on Annamarie Jagose’s and Hannah Frith’s problematizations of the prevailing tendency to position orgasm as either “authentic” or “fake”, we discuss women’s negotiation of the limited constructions of “real” pleasure.

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Women’s Sexual Satisfaction, Communication, and Reasons for (No Longer) Faking Orgasm: Findings from a U.S. Probability Sample

Cited by 30 publications

References 51 publications

“OMG, Yes!”: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of an Online Intervention for Female Sexual Pleasure

“OMG, Yes!”: Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Efficacy of an Online Intervention for Female Sexual Pleasure

Psychological and medical advantages of breastfeeding; the role of psychological consultations for women after birth

“Damned if you do, damned if you don’t”: Women’s accounts of feigning sexual pleasure

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