Hannah Seligson at The Daily Beast has this to say about the difference between male and female orgasms:
Their research confirms that the orgasm gap is widespread among young people in both casual hookups and relationships. Surveying 12,925 undergraduates from 17 universities, researchers examined four sexual contexts—a first hookup, one to two previous hookups, three or more previous hookups, and a relationship—and found that in all cases, men were twice as likely to orgasm. That gap is far wider in hookup situations than in relationships. In the context of relationships, women orgasm about 80% as often as men.
It’s not just sexual neophytes on college campuses that are having trouble. After looking at 32 studies that included mostly married women and spanned the past 90 years, Dr. Elisabeth Lloyd, author of The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution and a professor of history and philosophy of science at Indiana University, found that a third of women never had an orgasm during intercourse. Read more.
Orgasm differences among men and women seem the basis for defining gender gap. Men orgasm fast, regardless of the relationship status, while women climax slower, though more likely to climax quickly when in relationships. This could mean a lot of things. Maybe a woman is more comfortable and thus more relaxed during sex when her partner is also her spouse or boyfriend. Is it really the permanence in relationship that makes women climax easily or is it the fact that love relationships are more romance-filled, and thus appeal more to women, than casual sex encounters?
The article further shows how women are more likely to give men oral sex than vice versa. Based on the results of the study, we can conclude that women are more likely to orgasm when they are assured of a man’s love, and when men go down on them. Nonetheless, the so-called orgasm gap is alarming for women, as many of us are still just getting by with the occasional orgasm. What many of us wouldn’t give to climax each and every time we make love.
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One of the big problems that often goes ignored is that a lot of these women are on some type of birth control pill. This can greatly affect your ability to orgasm because you’re messing with your hormone levels and altering your chemistry. When are we going to see men actually taking on the responsibility of taking a pill everyday? Then maybe we’ll see those numbers even out a bit.