Women's Orgasmic Capability

I've often written about the various orgasms women have: clitoral, g-spot, vaginal (general, with no pinpointed target zone) and anal. I've made a mission of conveying that there is no "better" or more "normal" orgasm; the one/s you have, however you have them, are normal  and the ones you aspire to are also exciting so long as you don't get hung up on judging the way you come, or don't. Still, even women with the best attitudes about pleasure sometimes wonder why she can have a vaginal orgasm just like that!  without needing extra stimulation from hands or vibes or fairy dust. They ask: what makes her so different from me? And I don't always have the answer.

To many women's frustration, what we do know is that women are wired slightly differently from one another, built differently, and juggle changes in hormones, nerve conduction, and psycho-sexual attributes differently  all of which contributes to the sheer diversity of our sexual responses. Knowing this, however, doesn't always satisfy the hunger to understand exactly why you can't get off the same way that your friend or sister can. Now...finally...someone claims to have a solid and potentially verifiable bit of data to feed women who aren't happy with mere generalities.

Kim Wallen, professor of psychology and behavioral neuroendocrinology at Emory University, says that a simple physiological measure may have everything to do with the ease by which a woman can orgasm during sexual intercourse without an assist from fingers, toys or tongue. This measure, which he refers to as the "C-V distance," reflects how far a woman's clitoris lies from her vagina. Clitoris-vagina distances of less than 2.5 cm or roughly 1 inch, which is approximately from the tip of your thumb to your first knuckle  tend to yield reliable orgasms during sex, says Wallen. This makes sense if you think about the direct stimulation that a close-by clit would receive during sexual thrusting, pressing, and grinding.

Wallen is not the first investigator to check into this "C-V distance." Others have also posited that the proximity of the clitoris to the vaginal opening might be the key to orgasm. As far back as the 1920s, Princess Marie Bonaparte, a French psychoanalyst and pal of Sigmund Freud, collected C-V and orgasm data from her patients and in 1924 published her observations under a pseudonym, apparently fearing in those days that such scandalous research would destroy her credibility. Recently, Wallen analyzed Bonaparte's data and found the striking C-V correlation. His own measurement study is in the works next.

According to Wallen, only about 7% of women always have orgasms with intercourse alone, while 27% say that they never come that way. This leaves us with a generous percentage of women who might climax via intercourse sometimes  but not with any predictability. And what good is the C-V span to them?

Recognition of the C-V distance, or lack, thereof, does not strike one as much of an assist in gaining greater orgasmic traction. To the contrary, it suggests that only a small percentage of physiologically unique women may have an advantage when it comes to channeling that elusive, effortless hands-free orgasm.

Why not check out your own C-V? First, take a good look at your thumb  or at a large marble, or an inch thick slice of sirloin for that matter  to gauge just what that 2.5 cm really looks like. Not very long, is it? Then grab a mirror and have a glance down below. Is the distance between your own clitoris and vagina as short as that? Chances are it's not.

Results of an online survey asking women to measure and report their own distance from C to V revealed that only about 33% of the C-V distances were an inch or less, while 25% of the total were at least 2 inches apart  more than twice the optimal. It's interesting that a similar percentage  27% of women  say they never, ever climax via intercourse alone. Could that 27% be related to the 2-inch C-V span cohort? We don't want to leap to any conclusions, because surveys are not statistically validated instruments but it's food for thought.

While the C-V numbers are fascinating, in practice they're not terribly meaningful. You can't change your C-V, and, besides, if only 7% of women come reliably through intercourse alone, even having a short C-V doesn't ensure orgasmic ease. Maybe knowing that you have a short span could inspire you to focus more attention on building sensation in your nearby clitoris during intercourse, just for the fun of seeing what your physiological "advantage" can beget. Or, these preliminary findings might give you an edge when faced with a lazy or impatient lover who whines that his previous girlfriends always came easily without any "extras." To him, you can retort that either all his girlfriends fell within a group that makes up only 7% of the female population  or they were faking it. So there!

Source: www.loveandhealth.info

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