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Record W4410508285 · doi:10.1080/19419899.2025.2503415

Examining the orgasm gap in a diverse sample with mixed methods

2025· article· en· W4410508285 on OpenAlex
Maeve Mulroy, Trinda L. Penniston, Kate Hunker, Suraya Meghji, James Sinclair, Wendy Zukerman, Blythe Terrell, H. Green, Shannon Coyle, Caroline F. Pukall

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Bibliographic record

VenuePsychology and Sexuality · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicSexual function and dysfunction studies
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
FundersCanada Research Chairs
KeywordsPsychologySample (material)OrgasmSocial psychologyDevelopmental psychologyPsychoanalysisChromatographySexual dysfunction

Abstract

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Research has identified gender differences in orgasm frequency during sex between heterosexual individuals. This orgasm gap is reduced for cisgender women who have sex with women, while cisgender men typically report similar orgasm frequency regardless of sexual orientation. Current consensus around reasons for this gap implicates sociocultural factors. For instance, common sexual norms and scripts prioritise cisgender men’s pleasure. The present study used a mixed methods approach to understand the orgasm gap in a sample inclusive of sexually and gender minoritized and racialised individuals. A total of 5423 individuals completed an online survey in September 2020. A factorial ANOVA was used to assess orgasm frequency across minority versus majority groups (based on gender, sexual orientation, partner gender, and race), in the context of sexual activity with a partner. Qualitative content analysis further examined self-reported barriers to orgasm. Findings of the present study generally replicate existing literature on the orgasm gap regarding factors including gender and partner gender. Significant differences in orgasm frequency were not found between majoritized and minoritized races or between heterosexual and minoritized sexual orientations. Qualitative analysis results highlight both personal (including health related) as well as interpersonal contributors to perceived discrepancies in orgasm frequency.

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Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.095
Threshold uncertainty score0.225

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.169
GPT teacher head0.464
Teacher spread0.295 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it