15 Types of Female Orgasms (updated 2022)
Did You Know That Women Can Have at Least 15 Different Types of Orgasms?
While orgasms have often been called “La petite mort” or “little death,” there is nothing limited or meager about female orgasms. In fact, orgasms can come in a wide variety of incarnations and sensations on almost any part of the body, from quick contraction and release sneezes, to more expansive full-body Big “O’s” and out-of-body experiences.
Sigmund Freud first suggested that there were two types of female orgasms: clitoral and vaginal (or G-spot). He believed that the clitoris was juvenile, and best used for masturbation, while the vagina was more mature. This theory angered many feminists who saw the vagina as the source of male sexual pleasure alone. Contrary to Freud, Alfred Kinsey believed that there was only one type of orgasm women could experience which was clitoral. Dr. Betty Dodson, a feminist sexologist and evangelist of self-pleasure who taught generations of women how to masturbate in her BodySex workshops, taught that the clitoris was key to female orgasms
Most sexologists these days agree that the clitoris is a much larger structure than believed and is only the “tip of the iceberg” so to speak. Many believe that the G-spot is an extension of (or part of) the clitoris (known as the clitorethrovaginal complex, or CVU, which includes…
