Diana Peragine
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I mean, when we say a lot that women, we tend to say that women get worse sex than men, right?
And maybe there is some contribution this makes to that libido gap, but they actually get the worst sex to start with, right?
As I mentioned, the orgasm gap at women's first exposure to sex, that's about, it's the
five times larger than the orgasm gap between adults that makes headlines, right?
And that pleasure gap at first intercourse, that's remained stable over three decades, even as women's adult sort of sexual experiences have improved, right?
And that gender gap has narrowed in pleasure at that time in life.
Also, gender gap and stimulation of the primary sexual pleasure organ, that's penile glands for men, clitoral glands for women.
That pleasure gap, sure, it's large during heterosexual sex in adulthood, but it's twice as large at those first sexual experiences that women have.
Painful sex, rough sex, forced sex, those are all more likely to occur the younger women are, whereas that trend doesn't really hold for younger men.
Women also tend to lose friendships as they gain sexual experience, whereas men don't suffer similar losses.
In fact, quite the reverse.
And obviously, you can top all of that off with
greater odds or greater risk of unplanned pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, obstetric complications for women at those younger ages that don't carry over to younger men that really make the costs and benefits of sex really probably the most imbalanced across the entire lifespan for young women during this period of time.
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I mean, I also do want to stress, though, too, before we get into fixing it, sort of how important it is to target these experiences at this particular window of time, right?
I mean, you know, interest in sex, it first comes online in adolescence.
It's a hallmark of adolescence, sexual experimentation.
It's, you know, normative from a sort of demographic standpoint.
It's expected from an evolutionary one that will, you know, behave sexually at this time in the same way that, you know, it's inspected almost in the same way that