Orgasmic women strut their stuff
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Something in the way she moves attracts you like no other lover. The sum of her stride length and vertebral rotation is quite large. The flow of energy from her legs through her pelvis and up to the spine is free, her gait is open. She saunters, she sashays, she glides.
This is a woman capable of vaginal orgasms, finds a study set to be published in the September issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine. In fact, trained sexologists -- oh yes, Virginia, there is such a thing -- have discovered that in four out of five instances, a trained eye could distinguish between the woman with a history of reaching orgasm from penile penetration alone from the woman who, well, must content herself with the kind that results mainly from clitoral stimulation.
Did we mention? Research has shown that the ability to achieve vaginal orgasm is linked to better mental health, say the authors of the latest study. (Could Sigmund Freud have been right?) So she’s not only more sensuous, more confident, more open. She’s also better-adjusted!
The authors of the study believe they’ve found evidence that some women may be physically predisposed to having vaginal orgasms, long considered the ‘superior’ orgasm in psychoanalytic circles. They do suggest, however, that women enjoying vaginal orgasm may just be happier and have a little extra ooomph in their stride because they’re just so, well, satisfied.
Lest you think this was some undergraduate psych major’s idea of prurient fun, let’s set the record straight. Two psychology professors and two graduate students at the University of the West of Scotland videotaped 16 female university students in Belgium as they walked across an open space. Knowing nothing about the subjects’ sexual history, they found that -- with the proper training -- they could reliably distinguish the vaginally orgasmic women from all others.
Well, of course there’s an important lesson here for those who treat sexual dysfunction in women, says the editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine. ‘Women with sexual dysfunction should be treated in a multidiscliplinary manner,’ concludes Dr. Irwin Goldstein, editor in chief of the journal. Treatment for these women might go beyond talk therapy and medication and include far-ranging therapies like moving, breathing and muscle patterns, say the authors.
--Melissa Healy
