COPULATORY VOCALIZATION....Looks like The Brits Miss That! | Journal of Sexual Medicine

Intro: Where does moaning come on that list? According to a new study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, it shouldn’t be there at all.

How can that be? On the BSOS scale, it was one of the least-reported items, to the extent that researchers suggested it was of no use at all as a measure.

The female orgasm: lots of throbbing and quivering – but no moaning

A woman enjoying a noisy end to sex is a cliche of TV and film. But is there any truth to it?

(Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally. Photograph: Everett Collection/REX FEATURES)

 

the Guardian

Wed 22 Jun 2022 10.12 EDT

Last modified on Wed 22 Jun 2022 13.53 EDT

 

Name: The female orgasm.

Age: As old as humans.

Appearance: Widely variable.

You know one when you see one, though. Do you really?

Yes, it usually involves a lot of moaning. Is that right?

I watch a great deal of TV, and if a female character is moaning, it’s either because she’s having an orgasm or because she ate too much ice-cream after a bad breakup. It’s funny you should mention moaning, because researchers have just found that it’s not a reliable indicator of an orgasm.

As I said, it could also be the ice-cream thing. Sexual studies use two common methods for evaluating the female orgasmic experience – the orgasm rating scale (ORS) and the bodily sensations of orgasm scale (BSOS).

What do such devices for recording this information look like? They’re basically questionnaires for subjects to self-report different sensory and physiological sensations during orgasm.

Such as? The list of variables includes throbbing, flushing, quivering, pulsating, goosebumps and sweating . . ."

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