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Scientists have only identified four new ways to increase vulva owners' pleasance during intercourse, and no, none of them involve pumping away like a jackhammer. (Shockingly!)

Researchers from Indiana University School of Medicine and OMGYES take conducted the beginning-ever, large-scale, nationally representative written report focused on techniques people with a vulva tin can use for increasing their pleasure during vaginal penetration. (As you probably already know, vulva owners are significantly less likely than their penis-owning partners to climax during intercourse, so this study is of import!)

The researchers analyzed data from surveying three,017 American women, ages eighteen-93. Participants answered a series of open-concluded questions such every bit, "What discovery have y'all fabricated that really made vaginal penetration more pleasurable for you?" A subset of approximately i,000 women participated in follow-upwardly interviews via video chat to expand on their answers.

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The findings, published today in the periodical PLOS 1 , identify four distinct methods to raise female pleasure: angling, pairing, rocking, and shallowing. So how practise yous get on these ASAP? Permit'south break each of them downwards:

Angling

Virtually 88% of the study participants reported experiencing more pleasure during penetration by "angling," which involves rotating, raising, or lowering the pelvis/hips during penetration to adjust where within the vagina the toy or penis rubs.

More specifically, 84% of the women reported that fishing their hips high (or upward) increased pleasure, and 68% said that fishing their hips low (or downward) increased pleasure.

Angles are everything when it comes to sex, which is why it's often recommended to put a pillow under your partner'southward back when in missionary (and a number of other positions), which helps to tilt the pelvis up. It's also why you need to attempt various positions to come across which ones allow your penis to hit your partner's vagina at only the right bending.

Rocking

Roughly three-quarters of the women said they fabricated penetration more pleasurable by "rocking" the base of a penis or sex toy, so information technology rubs confronting their clitoris constantly during penetration, staying all the way inside the vagina rather than thrusting in and out.

A prime position that enables an organic rocking motion is the Lotus, where your partner wraps their legs around you. In the lotus, you can't thrust, rather, you ungulate (or rock) back and along together.

Shallowing

Fourscore-4 percent of women orgasm more than oftentimes or increase their pleasure through "'shallowing," which is defined equally penetrative touch just inside the entrance of the vagina with a fingertip, sex activity toy, penis tip, tongue, or lips.

When cleaved down, shallowing with a tongue or lips was the most pleasurable at 70%. Threescore-seven per centum of women reported shallowing with a penis tip enhanced pleasure, followed by 60% with a fingertip, and 38% with a sex activity toy.

This goes to testify that depth isn't the cease-all-exist-all of sex and pleasure. And while penetrating your partner, information technology tin can be enjoyable to insert your fingers in there likewise, so you tin can stimulate the shallow role of the vagina while penetrating more deeply.

Pairing

Seventy percent of women found information technology pleasurable when either they or their partner "paired" penetration with clitoral stimulation, reaching down and stimulating the clitoris with their fingers or a sex toy. There actually was a significant difference in reported pleasure when a woman pairs herself with her own fingers (31%) vs. if her partner pairs with his fingers (43%). This indicates that information technology may be benign to engage in positions like Missionary, Spread Hawkeye, and the Launchpad, where you tin can manually stimulate your partner'southward clitoris while penetrating.

At the end of the solar day, the research expands upon what women have been telling men since the dawn of sex: 1) Observe the right angles two) Don't focus just on thrusting three) Don't focus solely on depth, and 4) Don't ignore the clitoris during sex.

Zachary Zane is the author of Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto and co-author of Men's Wellness All-time. Sex. Ever. He writes "Sexplain It," the sex and relationship advice column at Men's Wellness, and is editor-in-chief of the BOYSLUT Zine, which publishes nonfiction erotica from kinksters beyond the globe. His work has been featured in New York Times, Rolling Stone, Washington Mail service, Playboy, and more than.