What Comes Between Arousal and Orgasm? | Female Orgasm Difficulty Explained | The Orgasm Hour Q&A, Episode 16
What Comes Between Arousal and Orgasm?
Why can a woman feel sexually aroused, enjoy stimulation, and still be unable to orgasm?
For decades, influential sexual response models have taught us to think of orgasm as following increasing stimulation and arousal. Masters and Johnson's classic 1966 model moved from excitement to plateau to orgasm. But for many women with female orgasm difficulty, anorgasmia, or Female Orgasmic Disorder, arousal alone does not reliably lead to orgasm.
So what happens between arousal and orgasm?A major scientific review of women's orgasm described orgasm as creating…
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