Lesbian women have more orgasms than heterosexual women

Heterosexuality is the most common sexual orientation, but that doesn't mean that in terms of pleasure during intimate relationships is the best option, necessarily.

Although evolutionarily it makes sense that at least a good part of the population of a species is attracted to sex On the contrary, happiness and well-being do not have to fit into the survival mechanisms enhanced by selection. natural; it may be governed by an entirely different logic.

An investigation recently published in Archives of Sexual Behavior, for example, gives us a sample that the sexual orientation that some people consider "natural" (wrongly), in fact, could be less advantageous when it comes to pleasure. At least, if we take as a reference the frequency with which you have orgasms, an indicator that can give an approximate idea, although not exact or unrelated to the debate, about how much is enjoyed in the sex.

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Differences in people's sexual lives

Numerous studies have registered a clear trend:

women tend to experience significantly fewer orgasms than men, in general. Various explanations have been given about this phenomenon.

Some place emphasis on genetics, and point out that "nature has made us this way" for evolutionary reasons, while others, more linked to gender studies, point to the cultural, pointing out that female sexuality only begins to be oriented towards pleasure in recent years, and only in certain societies.

But... What happens when you not only take into account whether you are a man and a woman and also analyze the influence of sexual orientation? This was the objective of the investigation that we will talk about.

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How was the investigation carried out?

To carry out this study, more than 52,000 men and women collaborated. of all sexual orientations, all of these adult persons residing in the United States United. These people had to answer a simple questionnaire about the sexual lives of the participants, and then these data were analyzed to find correlations.

The results, in some way, could be interpreted as a sign that the male sex is not very efficient when it comes to producing orgasms in the other person. The people who insured most frequently have orgasms always or almost always during intercourse they were heterosexual men (95%), followed by homosexual and bisexual men (89% and 88%, respectively) and, in third place, lesbian women (86%).

From this point, curiously, there are a significant statistical gap. In the case of bisexual women, only 66% answered yes to this question, closely followed by heterosexual women.

Culturally limited female sexuality?

There are several curious things about these results. The main is the difference between lesbian women and bisexual and straight women. Among them, they are at least 20% less likely to respond that orgasms are always or almost always experienced during sex.

In addition, another important conclusion is that the ability of women to have Orgasms can often be at least very similar to that of heterosexual men, which points to what cultural taboos and customs They could be influencing the way in which intimate relationships between heterosexuals occur.

Are men worse in bed?

Another interesting conclusion is that between men and women there is an inverse trend: in them, heterosexuals have more orgasms, while the opposite happens in them. This could be interpreted as a sign that the male gender has a greater tendency not to focus as much on achieving climax in the other person, or at least he is not succeeding.

In any case, it will be necessary to investigate further to see if these results are also found in other similar research and if it helps to shed more light on the interpretation of these data.