Why Only 57% Of Women Have Experienced Orgasms

The most important sex statistic is also the most unfortunate: Only 57% of women have ever experienced orgasms.  Isn't that absolutely ridiculous?  Does that make you mad, perhaps?  Anyone who is denied the natural stimulation of an orgasm is missing out on one of life's greatest gifts.  We've compiled a few reasons as to why this extremely unfortunate—and at times unreal—phenomenon is happening.  Take a look!

According to the data from Cosmopolitan's Female Orgasm Survey, men orgasm 95% of the time. That's a huge gap in completion.

Gathering from that, we can conclude that men are achieving orgasm much quicker than their female partners, which is one reason why only 57% of women are missing out.

Sometimes it's as simple as "mechanical issues." Mainly this means that there's a failure to stimulate the clitoris, the primary avenue for pleasuring a woman.

The same study found that 35% of women weren't getting the right kind of clitoral stimulation, while 38% of women claimed there simply wasn't enough clitoral stimulation.

Experts say that most women need to have clitoral stimulation in order to achieve orgasm.

There's a lack of education. In a 2005 study of 833 undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin, all of them couldn't point out the clitoris on a diagram. These students were both men and women.

The fact that women don't know more about their own bodies than, say, men do about their own, is unabashedly upsetting. Experts believe there must be a push to change this.

There are more sexual stimulation parts found on a woman than a man, and generally only penetration is the one occurring during intercourse.

There's a huge cultural and societal misunderstanding. The standard idea of sex is that it ends once the man finishes, but that is absolutely not the case. In the same study from slide four, 50% of women said that their partner was almost at the orgasmic finish line but couldn't win the race.

It takes longer for a woman to experience orgasm. Up to 20 minutes, or even 40 minutes are what experts say. The average time for a man? Two minutes.

Body image issues. 32% of women reported that they're too focused on trying to look good for their partner than relaxing and enjoying themselves.

Interestingly enough, lesbian women said they experience orgasm 75% of the time. One can assume that this is due to both women not feeling pressured to satisfy a man, and/or the amount of time spent having sex.

Fake orgasms also come into play. 28% of women said they faked an orgasm to spare their partner's feelings, while 27% said they faked it to get the act over with.

Most women only experience orgasm by masturbation.

Orgasms get better with age, thankfully. Maybe due to experience with one's self or the partner's own skills, but studies found that much more women experience orgasm during sexual intercourse later in life.