Department of Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 124 South Butz Street, State College, PA, 16802, USA.
Arch Sex Behav. 2018 Apr;47(3):605-613. doi: 10.1007/s10508-017-1102-6. Epub 2017 Oct 27.
Most women report reliably experiencing orgasm from masturbation, but a smaller proportion of women report regularly experiencing orgasm from intercourse. Research suggests that concurrent clitoral stimulation during intercourse increases the likelihood of orgasm, yet most surveys of orgasm during intercourse leave unspecified whether vaginal intercourse does or does not include concurrent clitoral stimulation (assisted intercourse or unassisted intercourse, respectively). Using an online sample of 1569 men and 1478 women, we tested whether phrasing of questions about the occurrence of orgasm in intercourse modulates women's reported frequency and men's estimates of women's frequency of orgasm in intercourse. Participants provided estimates of orgasm when asked explicitly about intercourse with stimulation unspecified, assisted intercourse, and unassisted intercourse. Women's reports of orgasm occurrence were highest in response to assisted intercourse (51-60%), second highest in response to intercourse with clitoral stimulation unspecified (31-40%), and lowest in response to unassisted intercourse (21-30%). Men's estimates of women's orgasms were highest in response to assisted intercourse (61-70%), and lowest in response to unassisted intercourse (41-50%); in both conditions, men's estimates were significantly higher than women's reports. When clitoral stimulation was unspecified, women interpreted "orgasm in intercourse" in three ways: as from intercourse alone, as including concurrent clitoral stimulation though it was unspecified, or as an average of assisted and unassisted intercourse. Taken together, these results demonstrate that the phrasing of questions about women's orgasm produces markedly different orgasm estimates, and suggest that concurrent clitoral stimulation increases the likelihood of women experiencing orgasm in intercourse.
大多数女性报告说，自慰确实能让她们获得性高潮，但只有较少比例的女性报告说经常通过性交获得性高潮。研究表明，性交时同时刺激阴蒂会增加性高潮的可能性，但大多数关于性交时性高潮的调查都没有具体说明阴道性交是否包括同时刺激阴蒂（分别为辅助性交或非辅助性交）。我们使用了一个由 1569 名男性和 1478 名女性组成的在线样本，测试了在询问关于性交时性高潮的问题时措辞的变化是否会影响女性报告的性交时性高潮频率和男性对女性性交时性高潮频率的估计。参与者在被明确询问关于未经刺激的性交、辅助性交和非辅助性交时提供了性高潮的估计。女性在回答辅助性交时报告性高潮的发生率最高（51-60%），其次是在回答未经刺激的有阴蒂刺激的性交时（31-40%），在回答非辅助性交时最低（21-30%）。男性对女性性高潮的估计在辅助性交时最高（61-70%），在非辅助性交时最低（41-50%）；在这两种情况下，男性的估计都明显高于女性的报告。当阴蒂刺激不明确时，女性对“性交中的性高潮”有三种解释：仅来自性交，包括同时的阴蒂刺激，尽管它没有具体说明，或者是辅助和非辅助性交的平均值。总的来说，这些结果表明，关于女性性高潮的问题措辞会产生明显不同的性高潮估计，并表明同时刺激阴蒂会增加女性在性交中获得性高潮的可能性。
