Google ‘how many women fake orgasms’ and you will be inundated with research that suggests somewhere between 63-78% of women have, at some point in their life, faked an orgasm. Interestingly, there’s little research done into why those women fake orgasms so, with absolutely no scientific backing at all but armed with an unusual and often confronting addiction to candour and an intuition that’s arguably more powerful that Trump’s spray tanner, I will give you my best guesses.
Firstly, I’m going to go ahead and blow the research out of the water and make the bold claim that every woman, at some point has faked an orgasm. See poll below ⬇️
The reason a lot of women don’t admit to it is because, somehow, we’ve been gaslit into thinking that faking an orgasm is a sign of a deceitful soul and/or a manipulative power play wielded by women to undermine and emasculate men. It’s as if they think that faking an orgasm is like a prank that we play so that we can laugh about with our friends the minute their back is turned. The radical idea that it may not have anything whatsoever to do with the man or men in general, apparently hasn’t occurred to anyone because here’s the truth: faking orgasms has nothing to do with the man and everything to do with our own sense of self-worth (which actually, on reflection, is probably a little to do with, if not men in general, then definitely the patriarchy).
Here’s what I know about my own experience. The reasons I have faked an orgasm are:
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