New research has investigated the role that male ejaculation plays in female sexual satisfaction for the first time. The preliminary study found, among other things, that many women report experiencing more intense orgasms when their partner ejaculates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe study was mainly informed by clinical observations. During my practical, clinical work I noticed that women have very strong opinions regarding men\u2019s ejaculation \u2014 and I am not speaking about the clinical criteria that most research usually focuses on such as intravaginal ejaculation latency time or how long the man can control or prolong his ejaculation,\u201d explained study author Andrea Burri<\/a> of the European Institute for Sexual Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHere, we are talking about other \u2018non-clinically relevant\u2019 aspects, such as how much ejaculate he expels or how loudly he moans, etc. I noticed that many women find it very distressing when their male partner suffers from delayed ejaculation or the inability to ejaculate \u2014 mostly because it gives them the feeling of not being desired or attractive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYet, there is not much \u2014 well next to none \u2014 research out there that has taken a closer look on how the man\u2019s ejaculation affects women, their own sexual satisfaction and their sexual functioning and what aspects they consider important,\u201d Burri said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the study, Burri and her colleagues surveyed 240 sexually active, heterosexual women (ages 20 to 60 years old) regarding their sexual preferences. They found that 50.43% of women considered it very important that their partner ejaculates during intercourse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cQuite a lot of women indicated that they themselves experienced more intense orgasms when their partner ejaculated, or when they had the feeling that the partner\u2019s ejaculation was more intense, and\/or when he expelled a greater ejaculate quantity (subjectively felt),\u201d Burri told PsyPost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Women who viewed sex as more important also tended to view their partner\u2019s ejaculation \u2014 as well as their own orgasm \u2014 as more important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNot surprisingly, how important it is to the woman that her partner ejaculates during sexual activity depends on how important she overall considers sex to be and also how important it is for her to experience an orgasm. There are plenty of women who tell me that it is about intimacy and that they actually don\u2019t care about whether or not they have an orgasm. But for some women it is indeed important,\u201d Burri explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n About 18% of women preferred that their partner ejaculate before they reach orgasm, while roughly 28% preferred to orgasm beforehand. But the majority (53.5%) had no preference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOverall, we can say that although male ejaculation and its different aspects seems to play an important role for women \u2013 in one way or the other \u2013 the study demonstrates a considerable variability of women\u2019s attitudes toward ejaculatory characteristics,\u201d Burri said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The study \u2014 like all research \u2014 includes some limitations. For instance, the study was conducted in Switzerland and the participants tended to be younger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAlso, all the variables that we were interested in were assessed in a \u2018self-report\u2019 way, so when you ask about the ejaculatory volume of course we were unable to measure it and had to rely on what the women considered \u2018a lot\u2019 or \u2018little\u2019. Then again it is about subjective perception because even when you have sex you are unlikely to measure how much he objectively expelled but how much you feel he did,\u201d Burri explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is noteworthy to mention that there is quite a large proportion of women that are repulsed by men\u2019s ejaculate and this deserves a closer investigation as well,\u201d she added. \u201cHowever, this was beyond the scope of the present study. Equally, there is quite a huge variability on how women perceived ejaculate and the effect it has on their sexual functioning, so the sources of this variability need to be further explored as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n