There are two narratives about the sex lives of midlife women playing out right now. One sees fifty-something actresses such as Nicole Kidman having the best orgasms of their life in movies like A ...

For hundreds of years the male orgasm has been researched and studied, but it was only in 1992 that the US National Institutes of Health set up a programme to research vaginal health. As such the ...

To understand why women have orgasms, let’s begin with a related question: Why do men have them? In evolutionary terms, the answer is simple. The biological purpose of life is to reproduce life, to ...

Sexual experiences don’t need to culminate in an orgasm in order to be enjoyable, but for some women, crossing that so-called finish line is important — and yet frustratingly elusive. According to the ...

Humans have a long history of misunderstanding and misrepresenting female pleasure. Centuries of male-centric science have bolstered erroneous theories about women's bodies and their desire. Hollywood ...

A rev(O)lutionary new study may have cracked the carnal code of the female orgasm. According to researchers at the University of Essex, it’s down to something women can do — not men — that makes them ...

Scientific sex research began in the late 1940s, and during the 70 years since then, one finding has been replicated hundreds of times. Compared with men, women are considerably less likely to have ...

Fifty years ago, a controversial writer named Shere Hite taught us how to talk about sex and pleasure, selling books by the ...

We’ve all heard about the gender pay gap, but there’s another form of gender inequality that affects our lives and relationships: the orgasm gap. Even though women are more sexually empowered than ...

When some women orgasm, they experience unusual physical and emotional responses such as laughing, crying, headaches, tingling, foot pain, nosebleeds and more. Known as peri-orgasmic phenomena, the ...

Giving birth has never felt so good. A pregnancy coach who teaches women to climax during labor says an orgasm can be 10 times stronger than morphine — and expectant moms are clamoring to take her ...