Words Matter: Putting an End to “Unsafe” and “Risky” Sex

Marcus, Julia L.; Snowden, Jonathan M.

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“…Such a perspective places emphasis on understanding the ways in which women can scaffold specific skills to increase their access to pleasure [11,14,15]. For example, as suggested earlier in this paper, most of what is known-either scientifically or through popular culture-about "how" to access sexual pleasure is focused on the object or body part penetrating the vagina [22][23][24][25], a specific body position or sexual behavior [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][35][36][37], or vague/imprecise terminology [19,[41][42][43][44][45][46][47]. The collective gaps left in this knowledge may prevent women and/or their partners from knowing the range of different approaches that exist or how to use them.…”

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“…“finger banging”) [ 42 , 43 ] or ambiguous terms (e.g. “foreplay” or “outercourse”) [ 44 , 45 ] or overly clinical terms (“manual-genital stimulation” or “G-spot stimulation”) [ 19 , 46 , 47 ] Common terms rarely acknowledge a wider repertoire of vaginal stimulation and penetration techniques that women can and do use for pleasure as part of their solo and partnered sex lives [ 48 ].…”

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“…Such specificity has the potential to directly address the ambiguity and efficiency challenges of existing language used to describe vaginal stimulation and penetration. For example, as described earlier, ambiguous, slang-based, or overly clinical terms [19,[41][42][43][44][45][46][47]49] are often used in scientific and popular media to describe stimulating or penetrating the vagina. Inaccessible vocabulary can present substantial barriers to a woman's ability to accurately describe to a partner what techniques she would like to use, and how she would like them performed [50].…”

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Women’s techniques for making vaginal penetration more pleasurable: Results from a nationally representative study of adult women in the United States

Hensel

Hippel²,

Lapage³

et al. 2021

PLoS ONE

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The study purpose was to assess, in a U.S. probability sample of women, the specific ways women have discovered to make vaginal penetration more pleasurable. Through qualitative pilot research with women that informed the development of the survey instrument used in this study, we identified four previously unnamed, but distinct, techniques women use to make vaginal penetration more pleasurable: Angling, Rocking, Shallowing and Pairing. This study defines each technique and describes its prevalence among U.S. adult women. Weighted frequencies were drawn from the Second OMGYES Pleasure Report—a cross-sectional, online, national probability survey of 3017 American women’s (age 18–93) sexual experiences and discoveries. Participants were recruited via the Ipsos KnowledgePanel®. Data suggest that 87.5% of women make vaginal penetration more pleasurable using ‘Angling’: rotating, raising, or lowering the pelvis/hips during penetration to adjust where inside the vagina the toy or penis rubs and what it feels like. Approximately 76% of women make vaginal penetration more pleasurable using ‘Rocking’: the base of a penis or sex toy rubbing against the clitoris constantly during penetration, by staying all the way inside the vagina rather than thrusting in and out. About 84% of women make vaginal penetration more pleasurable using ‘Shallowing’: penetrative touch just inside of the entrance of the vagina—not on the outside, but also not deep inside—with a fingertip, sex toy, penis tip, tongue, or lips. Finally, 69.7% of women orgasm more often or make vaginal penetration more pleasurable using ‘Pairing’: when a woman herself (Solo Pairing) or her partner (Partner Pairing) reaches down to stimulate her clitoris with a finger or sex toy at the same time as her vagina is being penetrated. These data provide techniques that are at women’s disposal to make penetration more pleasurable—which can enable women to better identify their own preferences, communicate about them and advocate for their sexual pleasure.

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Women’s techniques for making vaginal penetration more pleasurable: Results from a nationally representative study of adult women in the United States

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Hippel²,

Lapage³

et al. 2021

PLoS ONE

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“…The second content design feature is to provide users with precise terminology for the specific external (including, but not limited to, vulvar and clitoral) stimulation techniques shown to be prevalent and pleasurepromoting in the formative qualitative and quantitative studies we conducted. Research consistently demonstrates that sexual vocabulary about external vulvar or clitoral touching is often learned or communicated in ambiguous slang terms (e.g., "finger banging") (Braun & Kitzinger, 2001;Gordon, 1993), in medically and/or sterile terms (e.g., "manual-clitoral stimulation") (Marcus & Snowden, 2020), or lumped in with groups of behaviors associated more generally with "foreplay" (McCormick, 2010) or "outercourse" (Bakaroudis, 2014). When studies do focus on genital touching, they typically examine where touching occurs (e.g., stimulating body parts, such as the clitoris)…”

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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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“…This may include changing the language around risk and developing antistigma educational campaigns, but should also include supportive actions by state and federal governments, such as decriminalizing drug use, that would dramatically alter the current paradigm. 14 Beyond signaling that persons struggling with the disease of addiction should be treated and valued, rather than disparaged and condemned, such actions may facilitate expansion of federal funding for syringe service programs and support of safe consumption sites. As this is done, we will finally be able to develop the optimal evidence base for HCV screening strategies, particularly around repeated screening among groups with a higher incidence of HCV (eg, PWID and HIV-infected men who have unprotected sex with men) and those for whom HCV infection may have greater consequences (eg, pregnant women).…”

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USPSTF’s Hepatitis C Screening Recommendation—A Necessary Step to Tackling an Evolving Epidemic

Rosenberg

Barocas

2020

JAMA Netw Open

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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a cause of significant morbidity and mortality in the United States, with an estimated 4.1 million adults ever infected and 2.4 million adults currently infected. 1,2 Left untreated, HCV infection can lead to liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma and is associated with more than 20 000 deaths in the United States annually. 1,2 The burden of illness is not uniform across age, with persons born between 1945 and 1965, otherwise known as the "birth cohort," representing the majority of prevalent infections. This evidence led the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) in 2013 to recommend offering 1-time HCV screening of members of the birth cohort, along with periodic screening of those at continued risk, at unspecified intervals. 3 That previous recommendation was an incremental step away from risk-based screening and was based on the evidence that the birth cohort had the highest prevalence, had acquired their infections in the distant past (through blood transfusions or previous injection drug use), and had little ongoing risk. Yet, over Author affiliations and article information are listed at the end of this article.

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Words Matter: Putting an End to “Unsafe” and “Risky” Sex

Cited by 36 publications

References 37 publications

Women’s techniques for making vaginal penetration more pleasurable: Results from a nationally representative study of adult women in the United States

Women’s techniques for making vaginal penetration more pleasurable: Results from a nationally representative study of adult women in the United States

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

USPSTF’s Hepatitis C Screening Recommendation—A Necessary Step to Tackling an Evolving Epidemic

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