. Today, I’m going to be talking to you about sex, I’m going to be talking about the clitoris Orgasm oral sex. I thought I should throw a few of those words out there right now so that we can all get prepared for what’s coming over the next 15 minutes. Sex is a taboo topic, one that people typically shy away from speaking to large groups about Large groups. That may even include their professors and family members.

But I’m here talking about it anyway, and that’s because I have a problem with the way that we are currently thinking about sex And that’s the reality that straight Women often have a very different experience with sex than straight men do and that we live in a Sexual world that revolves around the pleasure of the penis. In. In this speech, I’m going to start by talking about the ways that we define sex, I’m going to talk about the differences in orgasms rates and pleasure distribution for women and men and, finally, how we can move towards a more equal sexual experience. I want to preface this entire speech by specifying that I’m addressing heterosexual encounters only So for the remainder of this talk. Whenever I refer to women or men, I’m referring exclusively to heterosexual and cisgender women and men.

Additionally, this speech is directed towards college-aged women living in the current generation and sexual climate. So, let’s start with how we define sex. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, sex is listed as “. The activity of sexual intercourse .” Sexual intercourse is defined by Merriam-Webster as “ heterosexual intercourse, involving the penetration of the vagina by the penis .”. So, essentially, the definition of sex is just the definition of penetrative heterosexual sex.

So what does this mean? Why does it matter how we define sex in the dictionary? Well think about it for yourselves, what do you count as sex When you’re thinking to yourself about the people that you’ve had sex with? What acts are you thinking of For a lot of people, this centres around penetration.

Centring sex around the penetration of the penis is problematic not only for any sex that doesn’t involve a penis God forbid but also for the straight woman. Experience. This is because, if you’re in the 3/4 of women, who don’t experience regular vaginal orgasm, a statistic found by Harvard professor Elisabeth Lloyd’s analysis of 33 studies regarding human sexuality. So if you’re in the 3/4 of women who don’t vaginally orgasm, then your orgasm is already considered extra. Your orgasm isn’t even part of the textbook definition of what real sex is. The significance of the clitoris as the main and most consistent form of female pleasure and orgasm has been proven time and time again from researchers like Alfred Kinsey to the survey studies of Breanne Fahs

So essentially, the pleasure that stimulates women’s main sexual organ, which is sometimes hard for people to accept, is the clitoris. Not the vagina is not even considered real sex, but something else “ foreplay,”. Something extra Here is the reality of the sexual-pleasure disparity. According to a large-scale survey of American adults conducted by Laumann and colleagues, women are having, on average one orgasm for every three that men have during heterosexual encounters. One for every three I’ve met women who thought that this number sounded pretty accurate and I’ve met a lot of Women who said that, in their experience, this gap was a hell of a lot larger

So why are men having so many more orgasms than women? There are two common cop-out explanations for this orgasm inequality. The first is that sex is a means of reproduction. If reproduction were the purpose of sex, then female orgasm may be unnecessary, because male orgasm is the way that reproduction would be achieved Makes sense, except that this argument is outdated and just completely irrelevant, because reproduction is not the purpose of sex. In the majority of cases today, as you can see through the prevalence of many birth control methods,

So then, why are people having sex For pleasure right Because it’s fun because it feels good? So if the purpose of sex is a pleasure and not reproduction, then this argument just does not apply In a mutual pleasure-based encounter. Theoretically, both parties should be benefiting equally from that encounter

This idea of the male orgasm as the means for reproduction represents an excuse for this orgasm to retain privilege and nothing more. The second cop-out explanation is the “. It’s just more difficult for women to orgasm”. Excuse There’s this idea that women’s bodies are somehow naturally just less capable of orgasm and that the clitoris is elusive and difficult to operate. This so-called “ scientific” explanation of sexual difference ignores crucial social factors that play a huge role in how we experience our sexuality like hook-ups, culture, anatomists, misunderstanding, gender roles and power dynamics. The myth that the female orgasm is naturally less easy to achieve can be proven false. With two very simple statistics:

The first is that, according to research done by Alfred Kinsey, the average time that it takes women to orgasm from masturbation is the same as the average time that it takes men, which is about four minutes. So this means that if you know what you’re doing as in doing it to yourself, then sex differences in the time it takes to orgasm literally disappear. Additionally, women who have sex with other women have orgasm rates that are much higher than straight women’s orgasm rates are almost as high as straight men’s. This research was conducted at the Kinsey Institute by Dr Justin, Garcia and colleagues.

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The idea that the female orgasm is just as easy to achieve as the male orgasm can be a tough one for us to wrap our heads around because we’ve been so conditioned to think of the male orgasm as the natural result of sex and the female orgasm. As something extra, The problem does not lie like the female orgasm When women are put in a situation where the penis is not involved. As in the situations I described before, then sex differences disappear. This means that it can’t just be biology, societal and gender dynamics must be at play here, But the problem is not men alone. The problem lies in the way that all of us are approaching viewing and participating in heterosexual sex.

Given the statistic I stated before that only about 1/4 of women report regular vaginal orgasms, it shouldn’t even be expected that women orgasm this way, but it is. There is a huge pressure put on women to orgasm vaginally and when they don’t or can’t have an orgasm. This way, there’s a stigma and a sense of shame. Statistically speaking, this shame simply should not exist, because it should be common sense that women typically need clitoral stimulation to reach orgasm. This expectation for vaginal orgasm is one of the reasons why women are orgasm. Less and this pressure to do so is one of the reasons why, according to Breanne Fahs’s surveys, over 50 % of women report having faked an orgasm before That’s the majority of women who have faked an orgasm

Women are so trained to put men’s pleasure first, that it’s almost as if they would rather please their partner by giving the appearance of orgasm than have one themselves By believing whether consciously or subconsciously that their orgasm is less important. Women accept and reproduce subordinate sexual status. Sexual inequality can also be observed through the prevalence of certain sexual activities like oral sex. According to Wendy Chambers’ study on the sexual behaviours of college students, she found that women reported giving oral sex more and men reported receiving oral sex. More So why are men giving oral sex less than women are

An easy way for women to help fix this problem is to ask for oral sex or to ask for orgasm or clitoral stimulation or whatever it is that they want. The problem is asking for pleasure as a woman is a lot easier said than done. First of all, asking for pleasure comes with the assumption that you deserve it. Women always deserve it, but they often feel like they don’t. It can be hard to ask for something from your partner when that person is making that act feel like an inconvenience or a chore.

Second of all, women shouldn’t have to be asked. Men should be making women’s pleasure and orgasm an equal priority to their period third women often feel like they can’t ask I’ve known women who have asked for things that focused on their pleasure and have been straight-up, told “ no,” or treated like it was An inconvenience or told that sex was over now because the man had had an orgasm A lot of times. Women don’t feel like they can ask, or they just don’t, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t want oral sex or that they don’t want an orgasm.

And when we’re talking about sexual inequality, the differences skyrocket when it comes to casual uncommitted, sexual encounters or “ hook-ups, .”, Sociologists, Armstrong, England and Fogarty found in their study on college students that women were 56 % less likely to have an orgasm in a first hook-up Than in a committed relationship. Women in this study reported their partners’ complete disregard for their pleasure, and men in this study also reported being sexually inconsiderate. However, this does not mean that the orgasm gap doesn’t exist for many committed women, because it does. There are also a lot of women who have never had an orgasm from a partner

The reality of the situation is that women’s pleasure and orgasm consistently become secondary, less important, less prevalent and sometimes ignored altogether, or even disrespected, Women internalize this belief that they don’t deserve the same sexual experience as men or that it’s just not a physical possibility. Although I’d like to argue that the possibilities for women’s pleasure are limitless, Women have a huge varying capacity for orgasm we’re. Just not exploring it. I’d like to specify at this point that I don’t want men’s pleasure to go down. I don’t want orgasm rates for men to decrease and I don’t want to diminish the importance of penetrative sex because penetrative sex is really important. All I’m asking for is equality.

i’m asking everyone who’s listening all genders to open their minds and just consider that the way you’re currently viewing sex might be oppressive. The experience of pleasure is different for every single person, but as long as interactions have consent, respect and a goal of equality, then we will have more pleasurable sexual experiences. It can be hard to stop viewing sex as penile-vaginal penetration only and it can be hard to start viewing the female orgasm as just as expected and important as the male orgasm. It’s hard to accept these things at first, but once you do, the reality of sexual equality becomes easy. It’s all in the hands of the individuals participating.

How long is it going to take for women to realize what they deserve, demand better and not accept anything less, when are men going to start treating their partners as equal, active participants in sex, And when are we all going to realize that the way we’re Currently, viewing sex is centred around penetration and centred around the orgasm of the penis and that it’s a good thing to question the validity of that The trend of less pleasurable and less fulfilling sex lives for women limits the sexual power of women as a whole. If we could create a movement to abolish the sexual inequality and pleasure gap, if we could start viewing sex in a more equal and positive light overall, then we would be one big step closer to the reality of true gender equality.

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