Study – “Female Multiple Orgasm: An Exploratory Internet-Based Survey”

In this recent 2021 study (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32301626/), Gérard et al. examine the under-researched subject of multiple orgasm in clitoris-owners. Gérard et al. examined three things: (1) assessed and described the typical characteristics and history of multiple-orgasm experiences, (2) tested the hypothesis that there are specific subgroups of multiorgasmic clitoris-owners rather than one single profile, (3) compared multiple-orgasm and psychosexual characteristics of participants reporting a solo versus dyadic multiorgasmic context.

NOTES FROM STUDY

•  Little is known about multiple orgasm experiences of clitoris-owners, and scientific investigations specifically dedicated to female multiple orgasm have been rather scarce.
• There is little consensus on what actually constitutes a multiorgasmic episode. Definitional challenges have made researching multiple orgasms in clitoris-owners challenging. As Gérard et al. indicate, “the nature of female orgasm has been the subject of much debate over the past century, with multiple typologies— coital and extracoital orgasms, vaginal and clitoral orgasms, mixed orgasms— competing to best characterize this experience” (p. 1).      
• Only a small fraction of women who experience multiple orgasm (about 10%) do so consistently.       
• There are specific subgroups of multiorgasmic clitoris-owners rather than one single profile. It is not one homogeneous group.
• A wide dispersion was found in the reported number of orgasms (2 to 101) 

DISCUSSION

What are your methods for having multiple orgasms as a clitoris-owner?

When do you typically have multiple orgasms?

What do they feel like? 

ABSTRACT

Women’s multiorgasmic capacity has long been mentioned in the human sexuality literature. However, due in part to the conceptual vagueness surrounding this phenomenon, few empirical studies have focused on this topic, and our scientific knowledge is currently limited. This exploratory research is mainly aimed at providing a much-needed assessment of the profiles of women reporting multiorgasmic experiences. For this study, 419 sexually diverse women ages 18 through 69 who identified as multiorgasmic completed an online survey assessing variables pertaining to sociodemographic background, context and characteristics of a recent/typical multiorgasmic experience, relationships between multiple orgasm and sexual/nonsexual aspects of life, and sexual and orgasmic history. Data reduction analyses using principal component analysis pointed out that 15 variables of interest were distributed across six components,accounting for a large proportion of the sample’s variance. A k-means cluster analysis further revealed that four distinct groups of women could be parsed out. These four groups could be differentiated by three sets of variables—sexual motivation, sexual history, and multiple orgasm characteristics—suggesting that female multiple orgasm is not a unitary phenomenon. This research provides to date the most comprehensive picture of female multiple orgasm and helps refine our conceptual understanding.