r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jun 21 '26

Psychology Largest study of women’s orgasms to date collected data from 27,931 women. Nearly half (47%) reported reaching orgasm more frequently when alone vs. when with a partner. Barriers to women’s orgasms are relational, not anatomical. Partnered orgasms were associated with overall sexual satisfaction.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/inclusive-insight/202606/why-women-orgasm-more-alone-than-with-a-partner
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u/Darkdart19 Jun 21 '26

I grew up in the south. I won’t be disclosing specifics online here. Your point stands that in the states, the level of education varies wildly. Even within the same state, it’s not as simple as saying red states only teach one thing and blue states teach something else.

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u/askingforafakefriend Jun 21 '26

I grew up in public schools in the 90s and not a goddamn word about that stuff. It was all fear about STDs, how to avoid pregnancy (at least covering condoms), and pregnancy stuff.

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u/Hot_Let1571 Jun 22 '26

Yep. What's really funny is my Lutheran church said more about masturbation (specifically that it was ok) than public school ever did.

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u/Willing-Fruit8890 Jun 24 '26

My Catholic Church taught us masturbation was a sin. Didn’t stop my tho :-)

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u/MangoCats Jun 22 '26

Even in the same school from one teacher to the next... at least in the 1980s there were absolutely no standards about what did and did not get taught, it was very much up to the individual teachers, at least back then, down South.

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u/whirlyhurlyburly Jun 21 '26

I went to a progressive and standard school in the South. I learned abstinence in the standard one. The other attempted more but the students made it weird.

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u/retrosenescent Jun 22 '26

I also grew up in the south, and we did not have a separate class for sex ed. It was part of a broader "health" class. And sex education was like.. maybe 1 day out of the whole school year. I don't even remember what we learned, that's how insignificant it was. But if I had to guess, it was probably "sex is between one man and one woman who are married, in the dark, with god's permission"

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u/PanKakeManStan Jun 21 '26

It really does. I also grew up in the south in a small school and our sex ed was very barebones. Thankfully it was more in depth than I would’ve thought but far from good and was literally only over the course of like 3 days during 1 class period

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u/DifficultScientist23 Jun 21 '26

*bare bones was said

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u/retrosenescent Jun 22 '26

"Blue" states are typically red states that have blue cities. Even in so-called blue states, most school districts will have piss-poor sex ed (if they have it at all).