Does clitoral knowledge translate into orgasm? The interplay between clitoral knowledge, gendered sexual scripts, and orgasm experience

Dienberg, Marie-Feline, Oschatz, Tanja, Kosman, Eden and Klein, Verena (2022) Does clitoral knowledge translate into orgasm? The interplay between clitoral knowledge, gendered sexual scripts, and orgasm experience. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. (doi:10.1080/0092623X.2022.2147112).

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Abstract

Despite some efforts to enhance clitoral knowledge to increase women’s sexual pleasure, a gendered orgasm gap persists. We aimed to provide contemporary data on people’s knowledge about the clitoris and investigate its association with the experience of sexual pleasure. Heterosexual participants (n = 573; 64.2% women) took a quiz on clitoral knowledge and answered sexuality-related questions. Participants answered only 50% of the nine quiz items correctly. Clitoral knowledge predicted sexual pleasure and orgasm in women, mediated via reduced endorsement of gendered sexual scripts. Our results highlight the importance of clitoral knowledge and its interplay with societal barriers for the experience of pleasure.

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