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Everyone achieves orgasm in similar ways

Orgasm is a primitive response of the human body. It is achieved through an identical mechanism regardless of gender and orientation. The key characteristics of orgasm include mental arousal must precede stimulation, stimulation focuses on massaging the blood flow...

Intercourse needs to continue until ejaculation

Human reproduction

Ejaculating into a partner’s body is the natural conclusion to the male arousal cycle. A man needs intercourse to dissipate accumulated sexual frustration and...

Reproduction involves more than just intercourse

Human reproduction

Sexuality is about reproduction. Human reproduction involves much more than intercourse. The distinct male and female roles are apparent from nature. The female produces...

At puberty boys develop a reliable arousal cycle

Anatomy & development

From a young age, many boys already demonstrate a more active and outgoing personality than most girls. Boys enjoy physical activities such as sport...

Young men tend to focus on enjoying their arousal

Anatomy & development

Men are valued for their physical strength, their practical skills and their personal confidence (leadership). Men increase their muscle mass at puberty by 50%...

Sexual responsiveness & orientation

Responsiveness

Sexuality is about responsiveness and orientation, both of which are determined before we are born. Among the genes we inherit from our parents are...

Child sexual abuse, incest and paedophilia

Paedophiles blatantly challenge the concept of consent. Paedophilia is the sexual attraction a man feels towards pre-pubescent children. Many paedophiles control their urges and...

Sex without consent is rape regardless of intent

It’s important to appreciate that the situation where a man (called a rapist) rapes random strangers is rare. These men specifically enjoy the violence...

Sexual scenarios tend to be biased in men’s favour

No one ever admits that sex is biased in men’s favour. Accounts of female orgasm are heavily promoted and accounts of harassment, exploitation and...

Non-sexual Intimacy

Women drive the need for dating and romance

Non-sexual intimacy

When a woman is in love, she enjoys the emotional sensations of dancing with a lover. But men are easily aroused when in close...

The romantic pleasure a woman enjoys from sex

Non-sexual intimacy

Men are driven by their sexual responsiveness. A man is attracted to someone who arouses him sexually. A woman falls in love or she...

The receiver of intercourse need not be aroused

Vaginal intercourse

Alfred Kinsey concluded that female masturbation provided the most convincing evidence for female orgasm. Kinsey found that lesbians and responsive women had orgasms on...

Arousal is psychological and arises in the mind

Sexual arousal arises in the brain and is a form of nervous excitement. In other words, the nervous system is disturbed (more agitated than...

The mental focus required to achieve orgasm

Anyone who masturbates needs to use fantasy for arousal. Turn-ons are erotic concepts or images that motivate us to engage in sexual activity. We...

Masturbation

How anyone achieves orgasm when they are alone

Masturbation

Sexuality is about enjoying the responsiveness of our own body through masturbation. Our mind’s ability to respond to erotic scenarios (both real and imagined)...

How women masturbate themselves to orgasm

Masturbation

Women may have a mild curiosity about genitals but they are not aroused by them. Neither are women biologically aroused as men are. So...

How we know women do not orgasm with a lover

The sexual mind

We assume that women orgasm because a man knows how to (or is willing to) stimulate her in the correct way. If women were...

Women make conscious effort to respond sexually

The sexual mind

When she is a virgin, a woman accepts the stimulation a man offers. A virgin lies inert during intercourse anticipating that something will happen...

Anorgasmia, preorgasmia and vaginismus

Committed relationships

Women who masturbate themselves to orgasm are called pre-orgasmic. Rather than celebrate the fact that they experience orgasm, the implication is that women are...

How a heterosexual man can have sex more often

Committed relationships

Nature never intended men to be monogamous. In every society, men’s greater inclination for promiscuity is accepted as a natural and defining characteristic of...

How a couple can bring variety to intercourse

Sexual pleasuring

Few women provide explicit erotic turn-ons. But most, at least initially, are affectionate. Demonstrating affection involves close physical intimacy and causes male arousal. When...

Sexual pleasure is defined by sociable activity

Sexual pleasuring

Mammals use grooming to connect socially with others. They also snuggle up together for warmth and comfort. Regardless of responsiveness, it can be reassuring...

Sexual behaviours versus sexual responsiveness

The sex industry

We cannot start to understand sexuality unless we differentiate between responsiveness and conscious behaviours. For the most part, our minds and bodies function in...

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