Do men fake orgasm

By Rachel Reilly. It has long been known that women can be guilty of faking the throes of passion in the bedroom, but a surprising number of men feign orgasms too, according to research carried out by a Harvard academic. It may seem unbelievable - not to mention physically impossible - but it is indeed possible for men to fake an orgasm, although quite how they do this is kept under wraps by Dr Morgentaler in an interview for online magazine Salon. A recent study from the University of Kansas found that 70 per cent of women and 30 per cent of men admitted faking orgasms. In the study, both sexes gave the same reasons for pretending - a partner's orgasm was imminent so they felt under pressure to climax. The report said: 'The emphasis on men's ability to give their partners "earth-shaking orgasms" sometimes leads both women and men to pretend orgasm to meet these expectations.

University of Michigan researchers who randomly assigned men to read a vignette where they imagined that an attractive woman either did or did not orgasm during sex with them found many would say unsurprisingly that men felt more masculine, and reported higher sexual esteem when they imagined the woman climaxed. None of this is necessarily bad for women. But she wondered, is something else behind the rhetoric? For their study, the pair developed an experiment, the Imagined Orgasm Exercise. In an online survey, men mean age 26 recruited from Craigslist, Reddit, Facebook, the University of Michigan and other sources were randomly assigned to read one of four vignettes where they imagined themselves with a woman with whom they had had sex at least three times previously. The women were orgasmic, or not. And the woman had either often, or rarely experienced orgasms with other men.

Yes, he fakes the orgasm—a concept I naively didn't realize applied to men, too. I was aware that women sometimes fake their orgasms. They shouldn't, by the way: It gives men a false sense of accomplishment; it perpetuates men's poor performance for their next partners; and above all else, women deserve real orgasms. But until recently, I always thought the fake orgasm story ended there.

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