The Elusive Female Orgasm: 5 Tips To Getting The O You DESERVE

Everyone can learn how to orgasm.

Orgasm is a learnable skill and every woman can become proficient at getting there. And if you already have your basic orgasm abilities down pat, you can use the same tools to expand your climax-ability.

Although sex is both natural and learned, for women, learning our path to orgasm is not always easy or natural. Just consider these statistics:

Ten percent of women have never had one (yet!), while over half of women don’t have orgasms from intercourse despite what you see in the wacky, unreal worlds of porn and romantic movies. Many if not most women are what I call “orgasm challenged”— sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t, and it’s a mystery why that is (or isn’t).

So what’s a girl to do if she longs for delicious climaxes to her solo or partnered erotic experiences?

For starters, relax. There’s nothing wrong with you — these are simply skills you haven’t learned yet. That’s right: sexual abilities are learned, just like playing the piano, speaking French or any other complex set of skills. You can learn how to improve your orgasmic capacity if you want to. It will probably take some time and you’ll definitely have to practice, but sooner or later you can get there.

Ultimately, the choice is yours. Unfortunately, in this world of ours, it’s a lot easier to find someone to teach you French than it is to find a good orgasm class. Don’t despair! I’ll get you started right now with these orgasmic tips for girls.

1. Slow down and take your time.

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Since the average time spent in foreplay for couple sex is less than 10 minutes, we have one root cause of orgasmic issues right here. For most women, full, deep and complete arousal can take up to 45 minutes. That’s right, 45 minutes. That amount of time is quite shocking to most people.

Our cultural models of arousal and orgasm are male-oriented, based on common patterns of men’s sexual responses. The male arousal pattern is of quick, hot, genitally-focused energy, leading to a rapid erection. By contrast, for most women, most of the time, our erotic energy starts cool and diffuse and takes time to heat up and coalesce in our genitals.

2. Take a nice deep breath to relax yourself. 

Breath is basic. You don’t have to remember any complicated esoteric formulas or worry if you’re doing it wrong. You certainly won’t forget to do it at all. Breath happens and if you want your orgasms to happen and then to expand, all you need to do is enhance whatever your breath is already doing by itself.

Just do a little more. Breathe a little faster, draw it in a little deeper, let it out a bit longer, or open your chest and belly more. Enhance your breathing and you’ll augment your arousal. Don’t hold your breath or let anxiety tighten it up. Breathe into your pleasure, breathe into your body, keep it moving and you can breathe yourself right into a nice juicy orgasm. Keep breathing into it and your climax will be bigger and better.

3. Focus on yourself.

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Yes, in this case, it really is all about you. In order to get turned on, you need to connect to your own experience and feel your own pleasure. You can’t become a master musician only by playing duets. In order to become adept at playing your own instrument, you need to spend time doing solo practice.

Solo sex is where you can pay attention to yourself without the distraction of another person’s needs, desires, expectations, and demands. When focusing on your self-pleasure, you can discover what works for you and explore new pathways.

Repeating behavior and action is how you learn. Like driving a car or playing a musical instrument, you need to practice to get good at any learned skills, including sex. Then, just like playing the piano, when you get the learning practiced, automatic and embodied, you can let go of thinking and just let the music flow out of you.

That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t play with partners when appropriate and available. It just means that you must also cultivate your own abilities, by yourself. And learn to trust your own pleasure as your best guide.

4. Flex your pelvic floor muscles.

Inside the bottom of your body lies a hammock of muscles that surround your genitalia and associated organs. Every time you grasp and release these muscles, you’re squeezing, rubbing and fondling your sexy bits. Essentially, you’re playing with yourself without using your hands, which is convenient because during sex your hands are often busy elsewhere.

The pelvic floor muscles also act as a trampoline for sexual energy. The muscles ricochet and reverberate it all around your body, spreading your arousal and magnifying its intensity.

There isn't one right way to play with your pelvic floor muscles, so experiment with different actions. Squeeze, pull up, cinch together, flutter, vibrate, push, hold and release them as you see fit. Just get them involved and you’ll heighten your excitement, experience easier arousal and extend your orgasm.

5. Don't be afraid to make sounds.

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Sound inhibition is the enemy of freeing your orgasm, so to escalate your experience, open your mouth and let the sounds out. You don’t have to raise the roof or frighten the horses, just try playing with little gasps and moans.

Start small by making your breath audible. Play with making soft, sexy sounds as you proceed through your arousal journey. Expand your sound repertoire as you become more comfortable with your sound ability. Moan, coo, sigh and whimper and you’ll enhance your experience. Allow yourself to have fun releasing your soundtrack of pleasure.

Use sound (and breathe, of course) when you start coming and don’t stop. Allow the sound to roll out of your open mouth along with the orgasmic wave. As you’re climaxing, keep your sounds going and your orgasm will keep happening, too!

Take these ideas into the laboratory of your life and play with them. Do your own experiments and pay attention to what transpires. Try variations on each theme and notice where they take you. Explore and see what arises.

Be your own scientist and observe what happens when you do it one way or another. Discover what works for you and then see if you can expand upon that. Try everything once or, better yet, several times and attend to the results. Combine skills and notice how they enhance each other. Be creative and remember to play!

Doctors Are Now Prescribing Vibrators To Some Female Patients

Yes, a sex toy can sure what ails you.

As someone who thoroughly despises visits from "flow," I've said in the past that I may even welcome menopause if that means I can say goodbye to menstruation forever.

Likely that sentiment is only in the heat of the moment, as I'm pretty positive menopause might not be all that much fun —  given that one of the symptoms is a decrease in your sexual appetite due to the pain that has been known to come along with sex after menopause.
 

But according to the Huffington Post, doctors are taking measures to rectify that problem. 

It turns out that sex toys might actually be the answer.

Specifically, vibrators, which can help to fight against "vaginal dryness and atrophy," as the vaginal muscle is more likely to deteriorate in middle age (which is what makes sex uncomfortable). Buying yourself a toy is a fix that many doctors are recommending — so long as patients keep their toys clean and use them as recommended.

At least we ladies can be glad that doctors are just prescribing the sex toys, and it's not up to them to do the trick by hand anymore.

Not only does a vibrator work the muscle out, but it also "creates moisture and boosts sexual response."

But here's the caveat to this medical breakthrough: They can't simply be clitoral-stimulating vibrators. They must also penetrate your vagina as well in order to aid the process.

Dr. Barb DePree, a gynecologist who has been prescribing vibrators for a while, also recommends using a vibrator if you've been experiencing weakened and less intense orgasms, which is another common problem that comes with aging.

*facepalm*

If you're uncomfortable with going shopping for a new, shiny sex toy, ask your doctor if they keep vibrators in the office for purchase — it's a coin toss, but you may be surprised. 

While DePree noted that most women are open to trying a sex toy, it's important to acknowledge the fact that not all women will be, and that's okay.

If that happens to be you, there are other options to help with the elasticity of your vagina, such as hormone replacement therapy and vagina lasers.

It's just important that you find what works for you. 
 

But rest assured in about 30 years, give or take, my doctor will be shocked to find that I've been practicing for the day she needs to prescribe me a vibrator for medical conditions.

Seriously, have you seen the price of that other stuff?

If You're Not Cliterate (Or Don't Even Know What That Means), Do NOT Have Sex

How cliterate are YOU?

If you’re not "cliterate," you definitely shouldn’t be having sex. Are you getting anxious right now? Do you have no idea what cliterate means? Are you worried about the future of your sex life?

Don’t worry, it’s not your fault. Most people don’t learn how to be cliterate when they get their sex education. Take a deep breath, my friend, because you can still learn.

According to sex therapist and New York Times bestselling author, Ian Kerner, “Being cliterate is understanding female sexuality, privileging female sexuality, respecting female sexuality.” 

Honestly, you should take it from him because this man knows a whole lot about pleasuring the ladies. In fact, he even wrote a book about it called She Comes First: The Thinking Man’s Guide to Pleasuring a Woman.

Unfortunately, when it comes to sex education, female anatomy and pleasure are largely neglected. While women are having sex all the time, it’s not exactly consistent with them having satisfaction or actual pleasure. In fact, orgasm isn’t even the tell-all event of pleasure. It is a lot more complicated than that and involves relaxation, presence, fantasy, and awareness.

Understanding the female anatomy is important for women to pleasure themselves and for the partners of women to bring them to the ultimate bliss.

“As many as three-quarters of women can’t orgasm from vaginal penetration alone. In fact, just eight percent of women can reliably orgasm this way, studies estimate. An 'ilcliterate' individual might write off such information as proof that women just aren’t as sexual as men or that their bodies aren’t hardwired for pleasure. But women who are in same-sex relationships have similar orgasm counts to men and achieve climax in the same amount of time as their hetero male counterparts. The same is true when women pleasure themselves. Women’s bodies are not the problem. The problem is that most of us don’t have a full understanding of how they work,” an article on Huffington Post states.

In an effort to shed a little more awareness about becoming cliterate, here are some facts that you might not know:

• The clitoris has double the nerve endings that the penis does.
• The clitoris has executive tissue that will swell when a woman is aroused.
• The structure of the clitoris is actually close in size to the penis.
• The clitoris is located outside of the vagina.

There’s a lot more to learn, everyone. So, whether you want to pleasure a woman or you are a woman who wants to pleasure herself, it’s time to get cliterate. Watch this video to learn more:

Sex Education: The Missing Chapter on Vimeo