Some questions for the lay-deez

[trixtah]

I'm in the process of reading O: The Intimate History of the Orgasm, which is fairly decent in a popular-science kind of way. However, the author has just characterised virtually all women as being multi-orgasmic, and I must say that's not exactly my experience. I think less than half of the women I've had sex with could do it consistently.

So, with that in mind, I'm desperately curious to see if it's just me. *snicker*

I'm trying to get how you experience it in general - we all have ups and downs and varitions, but I would like an impression of your average kind of responses. Feel free to comment if I've made some terrible omission, or you want to add something. If you don't really want the entire universe to know how you come, I've enabled anonymous commenting. :-)

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Comments

[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

I must say I'm not really sure in my "no multiple orgasms" answer - I suspect that my experience hasn't been sufficiently varied to be sure in that. *grins*

[stormkpr.livejournal.com]

Great poll! Thanks for asking these q's.

[saluqi.livejournal.com]

One of the things I avoid doing online is being specific about activities or reactions when it comes to sex. Probably because of that whole risk of being tracked down - so I don't fill in public polls. That I'll talk about the mental side until everyone is bored witless is interesting, but that is usually behind a lock.

Anyway, I have long thought that when it comes to the question of orgasms - multiple and otherwise - that people may be describing the same thing in different ways. You especially see this among the "come on command" crowd in BDSM.

[pretentiousgit.livejournal.com]

You win my Nerd of the Week award for this.

[ironed_orchid]

The main things which affect my ability to orgasm seem to be medications, some BCs, and my SSRIs make it more difficult to orgasm, and seem to make it less intense when I do.

[ilikerivers.livejournal.com]

I don't really need any recovery time ;)
I'm a consistent multiple-orgasm kind of grrl. It's a lot easier for my grrl to give them to me than me give them to myself. It doesn't feel nearly as good.