masturbation?

We didn't go there! Still verboten in the late 60's!

Snort jeni wouldn't have passed your exams if you didn't know where that was.

The post! Not my clitoris!

Can't find it [irrate]

Er.......it is biological!

No, you haven't done anything wrong Greatnan! I was just quoting something you said on 31st December 22.0804. It just sounded a bit........biological!

Don't mind me.

Now I know where I've been going wrong after all these years

Oh, dear, have I done something wrong?

Er?

Eh!

From Greatnan "The clitoris is not the little button that protrudes - it is quite a large organ which has been much neglected and misunderstood because most of it is buried."

Didn't that just about knock it on the head for everybody?!

This thread has been running since December.

absentgran some women/people might even find the clipboard scenario you describe extra exciting. There's nowt so queer as folk, as they say!

I can't remember

And those who can are not exactly a representative sample.

I can't help wondering how they – whoever they are – conduct the research that results in a conclusion such as "the majority of women could not have an orgasm just by intercourse". What do they mean by intercourse – presumably penetrative sex but are we talking pure missionary here? Is it all strictly hands off? Are you allowed to talk to each other? It's pretty meaningless and doesn't seem to relate much to how things are in real life. How do they know that a woman being interviewed is telling the truth or do they conduct their trials in a laboratory. I should think that would result in the conclusion that the the majority of women could not have an orgasm while having intercourse and simultaneously being watched by a scientist with a clipboard and stop watch.

Talking and doing the housework at the same time? sounds like a niche market there?!

petallus do you mean both at once?

Women can be soft-heartened creatures, often willing to listen to another person's woes, so they might well agree to listen to a man talking about his sexual problems. But to expect them to do the housework as well takes the biscuit!

Not many men joined this discussion so I'll add my two pennies worth, it's said that 98% of men and 70% of women masturbate, so we're in the majority in that department. I've never met a man who wanted to talk about it to another man ( I'm happy to say) but I'm sure that most men would be delighted to chat about it with a member of the opposite sex, especially if she was helping out, as most of us would prefer a little company.

Me too, Mishap....my imagination is beginning to fade a bit now! Perhaps I should have kept taking the HRT!
I have read letters in advice columns where one partner thinks the other is under-sexed or over-sexed. Of course, if one wants to have intercourse twice a day, and the other once a week, there will be some difficulties, but in fact both are 'normal'. It may be easier for a woman to accommodate the needs of a man more than vice versa, but if the man really wants to please his partner, there is more than one way of skinning a cat.
My sister's husband accused her of being frigid because she did not respond to his 30 seconds of foreplay, and his even quicker finish. When she left him and found a man she loved, she discovered her own capacity for sexual pleasure was huge. Guess what her husband had told her she 'needed' - refer to the other thread on racism!

I'm an exception too!
Can't imagine why anyone would bother to have sex with someone who did not have any consideration for their needs - rather misses the point of the exercise. Better not to bother really. Who are these strange men? - they are outside of my experience. My experience is that they are turned on by women's enjoyment, so it is a win-win.
I do not think that I am in the minority, not if my friends are anything to go by.
Frankly I used to be able to think myself into an orgasm using nothing but the mind! Had to remember not to think about sex when travelling by bus!!!!

Only an expert on my own. I have always been doubtful about anyone having a vaginal orgasm (yes I read Elaine Morgan too) - maybe some are lucky!

I once managed to get my (long ex...) husband to do the right thing for me - and guess what, he refused to repeat it.
One of my - private - reasons for divorce. Hope this isn't TMI!

Well lucky you "nanachrissy" - you are I think not an exception but in the minority.
Elaine Morgan always made a lot of sense, but such things are speculative. Any experts on mammalian genitalia in the house...

Anatomy and the evolution of the female human reproductive anatomy since we stood up. Elaine Morgan's explanation makes perfect sense. Can't remember whether it's in The Descent of Woman or The Scars of Evolution. Possibly both.