Why Women Don't Experience Orgasms as Much as Men

Sex Education

Jenny Jones
A recent article in AlterNet (August 24th 2009) publication asked the question why women get orgasm and went on to give a litany of biological reasons why women get something so pleasurable when it appears there is no real evolutionary gain to be had in terms of increasing her chances of bearing a child unlike a man whose ejaculation ensures that something is deposited into the vagina that hopefully would produce off springs that would ensure his genetic imprint remains actively in the foreseeable future.

Why do men find the female body such a mystery? The more they look the less they understand because females are complicated beings and they are oppressed psychically in spite of the image they may portray.

The question to ask is whether women really enjoy orgasms or do they just pretend that they experience the pleasure of orgasm as a learned response to gain the favour and love of the men in their lives. Women cries of ecstasy has been perfected into a skill and an art.

No one can measure a woman's true experience and all the hocus pocus that men postulates are just theories.

Because women's bodies have been so controlled and manipulated by society for many centuries, I am afraid that many women do not even understand what orgasm is. Their ideas are based on what men think orgasm is. When men hear women screams of pleasure they feel uplifted, proud of their accomplishment, their skills in pleasuring women. It is a boost to their virility and masculinity and who cares about the women?

Throughout history, women have been taught to hate their bodies and to view the sex act as something dirty, vile and evil before marriage but after marriage it is all nice, clean and religious. It is not okay. Psychologically many women hold back from expressing their true sexual selves and they have learned that the enjoyment of their body belongs to a man. Some women express feeling dirty if they experience pleasure in the sex act.

I believe it is for this reason that many women disassociate themselves from the sex act. Many women try to shake off the ideas of institutions including their parents about their sexuality and may become even ridiculously promiscuous in order to prove that they are free. That freedom may never come. Women may get glimpses of freedom after years therapy.

It is hard work for most women to reach a state of orgasm with a man. There are many stories about women in newspapers and journals confessing to experiencing pleasure only when they do it for themselves. Perhaps it has something to do with safety and freedom from judgment.

The pervasive abuse of women by men psychologically, emotionally and physically even today has produced a psychic sexual dissonance between men and women. If a woman acts like a sexual animal she is called a whore and if she is uptight she is called a frigid prude.

Perhaps if women enjoyed orgasm as much as men, women would retain their youthfulness and their fertility cycle longer, they may live even longer, who knows what benefits there might have been but we may never know, not until there is true equality between men and women and women are no longer seen as chattels of men to be owned and controlled.

Published by Jenny Jones

Writer, poet, actress, activist. I love writing and giving my opinion on matters of importance to the general public. I am a student of life and I feel we are the sum of our experience and a little more....  View profile

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  • A.4/9/2011

    You asked: "The question to ask is whether women really enjoy orgasms or do they just pretend that they experience the pleasure of orgasm as a learned response to gain the favour and love of the men in their lives. Women cries of ecstasy has been perfected into a skill and an art."

    You're right to ask that question and I think it does explain why women have an easier time getting off when they're alone and pleasuring themselves. Women are so caught up in pleasuring men there is a disconnect from their body during sex, I agree. Pleasuring oneself alone can be deeply satisfying because no one is watching and a woman can finally be selfish. That speaks volumes about our culture and social conditioning.

    I love men that tell me to play with myself and what to do and truly get off on my orgasms. I love love LOVE to be the center of attention but not in control. It's a great mix. If the man truly gets off on my pleasure and orgasm, then he's a big turn on for m

  • Ron5/9/2010

    Kimberly, you are right on. Males have been short changed in the orgasm department and I am so sorry to say you are right that we males have been short changed in so many areas that even I would have to admit women are the superior gender.

    I know my wife is in cloud 9 for a long time after she has an orgasm and she states it effects every area of her body. I know that when I have one, my prick may throb a few times and it spits out some fluid but that seems about the extent of it. I even often wonder if ejaculation is an indication we have even had an orgasm and I have often wondered that if women have that intense an orgasm, have we males even had one at all if all we get is a throbbing c0ck once in a while

  • Kimberly5/5/2010

    But when we DO have them, we have them!!!

    Males are greatly short changed in the orgasm department just as the male has been short changed in almost all other areas so no wonder so many males re bitter at women. (it is not our fault you were born with balls) Some researches think that if a male had the equivalent of a female orgasm it would kill the male as the male brain could not handle it. When an orgasm has been achieved through sex, you can measure theta waves. These are also said to cause the "running high" feeling of euphoria experienced sometimes by marathon runners. If theta waves are taken as a criterion, the entire brain emits theta waves when women reach an orgasm that are close to 10 times stronger than when men climax. So, if theta waves are an indication of an orgasm's strength, then women experience an orgasm that is physically impossible for men to go through. Putting it a little crudely, if the intensity of a woman's orgasm was played through a man's brain, there's

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