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The Orgasm Gap: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Noemie Bouchars Aug 2021

The Orgasm Gap: A Systematic Review And Meta-Analysis, Noemie Bouchars

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Background

Global perspectives on sexual health emphasize that everyone has the right to pleasurable sexual experiences (WHO, 2006). However, research suggests that men and women may not experience orgasms with the same frequency—a phenomenon termed the orgasm gap (Wade et al., 2005). Past research has found that men experience orgasm more frequently than women (e.g., Garcia et al., 2017; Piemonté et al., 2019). Researchers have offered several theories in an attempt to explain and predict the size of the orgasm gap, in a growing and varied literature (Mahar et al., 2020).

Aims

Our aim was to conduct a meta-analysis on …