Article: Is It Normal If I Can't Have A Vaginal Orgasm?

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The problematic notion that vaginal orgasm is the norm for assigned women's experience of sexual pleasure can be traced back to Sigmund Freud, at least in part. Freud believed that orgasming from vaginal stimulation alone (i.e. having a vaginal orgasm) was more mature than orgasming from clitoral stimulation. He believed this because he thought that the clitoris was a male organ, due to its structural similarity to a penis. Needing or wanting to stimulate these "male" parts for pleasure made women less feminine, and thus less mature.

Today, we know that Freud's beliefs about women's sexual pleasure were based on flawed reasoning and heterosexist assumptions. Research has clearly shown that how women (and other individuals who have a clitoris and/or vagina) orgasm, is highly variable. Vaginal orgasm is not an option available to everyone, and women who do not experience vaginal orgasm are neither more or less mature than those who do. Vaginal orgasm is also not a myth. Women who experience orgasms from vaginal stimulation alone may not be in the majority, but they do exist.
 
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