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By Cory Silverberg, About.com Guide to Sexuality since 2005

I Can’t Orgasm

Wednesday November 19, 2008

It’s been said that in our culture there exists an “orgasmic imperative”; an ideal which dictates how many, how strong, and how often we should all be orgasming. In a rougher part of town I might call this orgasmic imperative b#llsh*t. But here let me put forth a more modest proposal.

Orgasms, while lots of fun, are not required for great sex. And when you keep your focus obsessively trained on one aspect of your sexual activity it’s easy to miss any number of exciting, hot, and revealing things passing by your peripheral experience. Still, for people who aren’t orgasming, or think they can’t, there is often (if not always) a path to more intense sexual response, including orgasm. And if that’s you, hopefully you’ll find some of the following helpful.

So You're Having Problems Having Orgasms:

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