Vaginal orgasm is associated with indices of women's better psychological, intimate relationship, and psychophysiological function

Brody, Stuart; Costa, Rui Miguel

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Vaginal orgasm is associated with indices of women's better psychological, intimate relationship, and psychophysiological function

2017Journal article

dc.contributor.author	Brody, Stuart
dc.contributor.author	Costa, Rui Miguel
dc.date.accessioned	2017-07-10T13:36:42Z
dc.date.available	2017-07-10T13:36:42Z
dc.date.issued	2017
dc.description.abstract	A recent study by Therrien and Brotto (2016) examined the associations of orgasm during intercourse, concordance of laboratory genital and subjective arousal, and demographic variables in a group of sexually dysfunctional women. The authors claimed that their results cast doubt on the large body of multi-method multi-national research demonstrating that women’s orgasm from penile-vaginal intercourse, and specifically vaginal orgasm are associated with a broad range of indices of women’s better psychological, intimate relationship, and psychophysiological health. The problems with Therrien and Brotto’s (2016) conclusions are discussed, and include that they did not even measure vaginal orgasm (they measured orgasm during intercourse, which can in some cases consist of orgasm elicited by clitoral masturbation during intercourse), and the non-generalisability of their findings from a sexually dysfunctional sample to the general population of women. Evidence is also presented against their claims that findings regarding orgasm during intercourse have not been investigated by other researchers, and their denial of differences between vaginal orgasm and clitoral orgasm. Denial of the myriad benefits of vaginal orgasm undermines women’s sexual and general health potential, and serves only the demands of political correctness.	pt_PT
dc.description.version	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion	pt_PT
dc.identifier.citation	Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, 26(1), 1-4	pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi	10.3138/cjhs.261-A3	pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn	1188-4517
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/5654
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	University of Toronto Press	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Sexual intercourse	pt_PT
dc.subject	Vaginal orgasm	pt_PT
dc.subject	Sexual function	pt_PT
dc.subject	Relationship satisfaction	pt_PT
dc.title	Vaginal orgasm is associated with indices of women's better psychological, intimate relationship, and psychophysiological function	pt_PT
dc.type	journal article
dspace.entity.type	Publication
oaire.citation.conferencePlace	Canadá	pt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage	4	pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue	1	pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage	1	pt_PT
oaire.citation.title	Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality	pt_PT
oaire.citation.volume	26	pt_PT
rcaap.rights	restrictedAccess	pt_PT
rcaap.type	article	pt_PT