In our third and final part of our orgasm gap series, we talk about why pleasure is so important. Our culturally instituted orgasm or pleasure gap has manipulated how we study sexuality in women and the results we get that are sanctioned by the scientific method. 

Check out the episode for some shocking statistics about whether more men are looking for a relationship vs. women, even we were surprised by the numbers.

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References:

The Female Sexual Response, A Different Model

The Pleasure Gap by Katherine Rowland

Pew Research - % of Men vs. Women Looking for a Relationship

Show notes:

0:00 Introduction

1:05 The importance of women’s pleasure

3:32 Sex as a spectacle and fake orgasms

4:11 The normalization of women not enjoying sex

5:05 Barriers to pleasure

6:35 Understanding pleasure

7:20 Discordant sexual arousal in women

8:53 The flywheel effect and sexual dysfunction

9:42 Cultural constraints on female pleasure

10:27 The impact the pleasure gap has on relationships

13:46 The decrease in relationship interest among women

18:19 An experiment in shifting focus