Frequency of orgasm in non-clinical samples: A meta-analysis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Frequency of sexual activity is an important aspect of sexual health with extreme ends of the continuum being embedded in definitions of inhibited (e.g., low sexual desire) and disinhibited (e.g., hypersexuality) sexual response. Number of orgasms is one, albeit imperfect, measure of frequency of sexual activity. Clinicians and researchers have utilized a cut-off of seven orgasms per week to denote high frequency of sexual behaviour. The aim of this meta-analysis was to estimate the average number of orgasms per week in non-clinical samples to provide updated benchmarks for typical and atypical sexual behaviour frequency. We also estimated the number of females and males who meet the seven orgasms per week criterion. Twenty-nine studies met the selection criteria, reporting on 36 non-overlapping samples of 14,297 females and 9,111 males. The dependent variable was total sexual outlet (TSO), defined as the number of orgasms per week by any means (i.e., solitary and partnered sex). The average TSO was 2.52 for females and 4.38 for males, although considerable variability was observed across studies. Higher TSO averages were obtained in more recent studies, younger samples, samples with a lower proportion of straight participants, and samples with a higher proportion of single participants. A Monte Carlo simulation suggested that 2.1% of females and 24.0% of males met the seven orgasms per week criterion. Implications of these results in identifying hypersexuality as well as the place of orgasm frequency in the broader concept of compulsive sexual behaviour disorder are discussed.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".