Sex researchers say 27 percent of women don't climax during vaginal sex. The modern woman is not only expected to be a good mother and a professional success, but some believe she needs to behave like a porn star in the bedroom. So if a simple device could reveal whether a woman is capable of a vaginal orgasm , would it take the pressure off heterosexual women to perform? New research suggests that a simple measurement -- a "rule of thumb" -- might be the key to the pleasures of sexual intercourse.
About 75 percent of all women never reach orgasm from intercourse alone -- that is without the extra help of sex toys, hands or tongue. And 10 to 15 percent never climax under any circumstances.
The Internet is rife with non-orgasmic women who say they are missing out, and statistics suggest that they are a significant group. I feel like less of a woman because I can't have an orgasm and I want to so bad. I feel incomplete sometimes after sex. But it might not be all in their heads, according to Kim Wallen , professor of behavioral neuroendocrinology at Emory University. He wants to determine if a woman's ability to have an orgasm with penile stimulation alone depends on how far her clitoris lies from her vagina -- the so-called "C-V distance.
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