Editing Orgasm (section)

==== Other factors and research ====

Regular difficulty reaching orgasm after ample sexual stimulation, known as [[anorgasmia]], is significantly more common in women than in men ([[#Dysfunction and satisfaction|see below]]).<ref name="Anorgasmia" /> In addition to sexual dysfunction being a cause for women's inability to reach orgasm, or the amount of time for sexual arousal needed to reach orgasm being variable and longer in women than in men, other factors include a lack of communication between sexual partners about what is needed for the woman to reach orgasm, feelings of sexual inadequacy in either partner, a focus on only penetration (vaginal or otherwise), and men generalizing women's trigger for orgasm based on their own sexual experiences with other women.<ref name="Weiten" /><ref name="Wallen K, Lloyd EA" /><ref name="Flaherty" />

Scholars state "many couples are locked into the idea that orgasms should be achieved only through intercourse [vaginal sex]" and that "[e]ven the word ''[[foreplay]]'' suggests that any other form of sexual stimulation is merely preparation for the 'main event.'...Because women reach orgasm through intercourse less consistently than men, they are more likely than men to have [[Fake orgasm|faked an orgasm]]".<ref name="Weiten" /> Sex counselor [[Ian Kerner]] states, "It's a myth that using the penis is the main way to pleasure a woman." He cites research concluding that women reach orgasm about 25 percent of the time with intercourse, compared with 81 percent of the time during oral sex ([[cunnilingus]]).<ref name="Rob Baedeker">{{cite web |last = Rob |first = Baedeker |title = Sex: Fact and Fiction |website = [[WebMD]] |pages = 2–3 |access-date = November 28, 2012 |url = http://men.webmd.com/features/sex-fact-fiction?page=2 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140112134913/http://men.webmd.com/features/sex-fact-fiction?page=2 |archive-date = January 12, 2014 }}</ref>

In the first large-scale empirical study worldwide to link specific practices with orgasm, reported in the ''[[Journal of Sex Research]]'' in 2006, demographic and sexual history variables were comparatively weakly associated with orgasm. Data was analyzed from the Australian Study of Health and Relationships, a national telephone survey of sexual behavior and attitudes and sexual health knowledge carried out in 2001–02, with a representative sample of 19,307 Australians aged 16 to 59. Practices included "vaginal intercourse alone (12%), vaginal + manual stimulation of the man's and/or woman's genitals (49%), and vaginal intercourse + manual + oral (32%)" and the "[e]ncounters may also have included other practices. Men had an orgasm in 95 percent of encounters and women in 69 percent. Generally, the more practices engaged in, the higher a woman's chance of having an orgasm. Women were more likely to reach orgasm in encounters including cunnilingus".<ref name="Richters J">{{cite journal |title = Sexual practices at last heterosexual encounter and occurrence of orgasm in a national survey |journal = [[The Journal of Sex Research]] |date = August 2006 |pmid = 17599244 |doi = 10.1080/00224490609552320 |volume = 43 |issue = 3 |pages = 217–26 |vauthors = Richters J, Visser R, Rissel C, Smith A |s2cid = 7469378 }}</ref> Other studies suggest that women exposed to lower levels of prenatal [[androgen]]s are more likely to experience orgasm during vaginal intercourse than other women.<ref name="Wallen K, Lloyd EA" />