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Back Breaking News: Surprising Percentage of Men Fake Orgasm

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on April 25th, 2011 4:05 PM

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Do men fake orgasms? Are you one of them? Why would a guy do that, and how often does it happen? According to the Journal of Sex Research, a recent study sought to answer those questions for us. In a study on a college campus, nearly 200 participants filled out anonymous questionnaires about their sexual and orgasmic habits and tendencies.

67% of women engaging in penile-vaginal intercourse reported faking an orgasm. They also reported faking it during oral sex, manual masturbation, and phone sex. Because of our society’s stigma that men are responsible for women’s orgasms, women most likely feel obligated to experience orgasm during every sexual encounter. Women cited reasons such as not wanting to hurt a partner’s feelings, knowing that orgasm was extremely unlikely and therefore wanting sex to end, and wanting to please their partner emotionally.

Percentage of men faking orgasm? 28%. Most men cited exactly the same reasons for faking orgasms as did the females.

The study concluded that the portion of the population involved in penile-vaginal intercourse is indeed affected by sexual “scripting” in which we make assumptions about what is supposed to happen. Do you fall into the portion of the population that believes that you’re not doing a good job if your woman isn’t orgasming during vaginal sex? Do you believe that your penis, tongue, hand, or a combination of those is solely responsible for your lady’s stimulation and orgasm during sex? Have you heard that unless you allow your partner to experience orgasm first, that you are either impolite or inexperienced? Do you believe that a positive or “successful” sexual encounter always ends in orgasm for both parties?

Don’t let these assumptions mess with your fun. They are just that — assumptions. And they’re hard on you both (no pun intended.) Apparently, 28% of the sexually active population of males have caved to pressure. No guy wants to be labeled as inadequate or as a douchebag. Of course not. Here’s to throwing out the “script” and defining sexual success for yourselves, and for your private partnership with your dame. A successful sexual encounter may mean different things at different times for your lady, too.



14 Responses to Back Breaking News: Surprising Percentage of Men Fake Orgasm

  1. Kate says:

    I’m flummoxed to learn such a thing is even possible. Can’t quite wrap my head around the mechanics of such a deception

  2. Andrea Rothe says:

    Well… women can fake any time. Men only during phone sex and PVI (penile-vaginal intercourse) for obvious reasons. Or pulling out and “missing” while simultaneously knocking over the lamp…. “I don’t know where it went…”

    • “I don’t know where it went…” Andrea you are hysterical. I think all sexual encounters should end with a “Carry On… style” hunt for the ejaculate.

  3. Kate says:

    For some reason I was picturing some sort of slight of hand trick, so thanks for the clarification about phone sex and lamp mishaps, didn’t consider those

  4. I’ve faked it. You can only pound away at someone for so long before a nice deli sandwich starts to take over all rational thought.

  5. Kate says:

    I think your best course of action would be honesty. The allure of a good sammich is easy enough to understand, for most reasonable people anyway. I’m fond of BLTs, myself. Mendacious pantomime, however, will only breed mistrust. If it’s someone nice that you care about, give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they’d want to know if they were placing an uncomfortable burden of expectation on you. That’s the world we should all strive to live in, at least

  6. Casey H. says:

    Mendacious Pantomime? Didn’t they tour with Fugazi and Romance Explosion back in the early 80′s?

  7. D.T. says:

    I’ve faked it, once. It was during a rough patch in a relationship. I was angry and upset about something she said or did (happened a lot), but she insisted on trying to smooth out the situation with sex (also happened frequently). I made sure she was satisfied, then faked it (it simply wasn’t going to happen for me), then promptly excused myself.

    Damn, it’s way too easy to be honest on this site.

    • Kate says:

      “Damn, it’s way too easy to be honest on this site”

      That’s the power of GUY.com

  8. Sadly, I had this thought pass through my brain,

    “I could either keep thinking about how awesome this current sex I’m having is…or I can be taking my Shepard through the galaxy in Mass Effect”

    …more than once.

  9. kevin kohler says:

    I sometimes find that, in the heat of battle, I have to distract myself in order to keep from going TOO early, but then, once distracted, I lose that “moment” were an orgasm is possible, and from then on, it’s sex with NO orgasm at the end of the tunnel. Not that sex is bad, but without the big finish, for dudes, it’s like christmas without presents. Which, it seems, as you get older…you get used to.

    • D.T. says:

      The day I stop getting excited about “presents” is the day I’m checkin’ out.

  10. epuryear8 says:

    This is funny. I don’t know why a man would fake an orgasm, but I honestly did one time because the sex was so bad and didn’t really smell good, so i just had to get out of there. Not a good experience.

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