What is the pleasure gap, and how do we close it? According to research, only 65 percent of straight women usually or always orgasm during sex, as opposed to 95 percent of straight men. Women who have sex with other women, on the other hand, report having an orgasm around 80 percent of the time — showing that we can’t chalk the discrepancy in orgasms up to simple anatomical differences. Why does the gap exist? Most heterosexual sex is “phallocentric” — in other words, it revolves largely around sex acts that involve the penis, like vaginal penetration — despite clitoral […]
