Yep, they finally went ahead and did it. They did what they have avoided doing for over 100 years: they proved that women do not need a penis to have an orgasm.
Finally scientists are telling us what we've been telling men forever. Namely, that clitoral and vaginal stimulation actually provide different sensations. Scientists have used MRI brain scans to determine that these two types of stimulation differ because they actually activate different parts of the brain.
via www.nerve.com
Read more about the study at New Scientist
I note they do not specifically address orgasm. Too bad, because it would be relevant to document whether the clitoral stimuli were more likely to produce orgasm than the vaginal stimuli. I, for one, would love to know if the average female brain said "ohhhhhh" at vaginal stim, and "OOOHHH-AAAHHH-OOOOOOHHHHHH" at clit stim (as I'll bravely conjecture it does). IMO, when you want to produce a female orgasm, go to the clit (or, better still, buy a great buzzy toy
). Fuck the vagina. I mean, if you want to. Otherwise, don't worry, be happy, and get busy in front.
IMO, the study of female sexuality -- from a medical and psychiatric stand-point -- has long been thwarted by doctrinal assumptions about what women are, or, more precisely, what women are SUPPOSED to be (i.e., asexual, designed by God as vessels for men). Evidence that women have strong sex drives, experience intense sexual frustration, and so on, have largely been suppressed or unexamined. The growing scientific data will, I believe, prove out a rational model of female sexuality that will jive with sex as women live it, not as they've been told they are supposed to live it.
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