A third of women fake orgasms

London, April 03, 2007

One in three women regularly fake orgasms, a survey has revealed

The average woman has sex 99 times a year, but on 34 occasions they do not reach the zenith.

In the poll of 4,000 women, 30 per cent admitted they had faked an orgasm with every partner they have had. And 90 per cent say blokes cannot distinguish a fake from the real thing.

Twenty per cent said they thought about other men during sex to turn themselves on.

The survey by market researchers OnePoll is not all bad news for the men. Over 80 per cent of women said they would rather be with a bloke who was a flop in bed but was kind and caring than a sensational lover who showed little or no affection.

Around 15 per cent said poor technique can be improved, while lovers who show no tenderness are much harder to fix. And one in five women admitted that bad sex was not always their partner’s fault.

“Fellas simply need to talk more. Take a little time finding out what makes women happy when they make love,” OnePoll spokesman John Sewell was quoted by the Sun, as saying.

Muslim Woman gives sex tips on TV

Associated Press | HT

Cairo (Egypt), December 4, 2006

Heba Kotb is a conservative Muslim, wears an Islamic head scarf, and goes on television once a week to talk frankly and in great detail about sex.

On her show, Big Talk, Kotb answers questions from Muslims all over the Middle East about the most intimate bedroom issues with an openness that is shocking and revolutionary in a society where discussing the subject is taboo.

“How do I talk about these issues? Very seriously,” the Egyptian sexologist says.

”I put on a mask-like face and make sure I speak in the right tone of voice,” she adds.

She also does it by talking about sex in an Islamic light, arguing that the faith is in favor of pleasure for both men and women, with one important caveat that it be only in the context of marriage.

“I'm very proud of my religion,” Kotb said in an interview at Cairo University, where she teaches forensic medicine.

“My studies revealed to me more and more how Islam was ahead in all sexual matters ... I discovered that Islam understood sex long before the rest of the world,” she adds.

For example, Islam “stresses the importance of foreplay,” Kotb said, and she often stresses to listeners that women should also enjoy sex.

Kotb's frankness is a hit in a region where sex education is minimal, male-female contact is often discouraged and talk on the subject is usually in hushed tones, allowing myths to circulate freely.

She lectured in Saudi Arabia and Yemen recently, where she said many men in the audience where shocked, while women some with veiled faces bombarded her with questions.

Kotb, 39 and married with three daughters, studied sexology at Maimonides University, a private school in Florida, and combined it with her own knowledge of her religion to produce a dissertation titled Sexuality in Islam.

She opened a sexology clinic in Cairo in 2002, wrote sex advice columns in newspapers, appeared on talk shows and answered questions on an Arabic website.

She started Big Talk on the independent Egyptian satellite channel El-Mehwar more than two months ago.

Much of her advice is straight biology laying out facts rarely aired elsewhere. Nothing is too sensitive.

She discusses sexual positions, female orgasm, oral sex (allowed, “since there is no religious text banning it”), even masturbation (frowned upon but at least preferable to unmarried or adulterous sex, which is haram, meaning forbidden by religion).

Global orgasm for peace

World peace through love making!

Indo-Asian News Service | Hindustantimes
New Delhi, November 24, 2006

Remember the flower power generation's slogan from the 1960s: Make Love, Not War? A US-based activist couple wants the world to put that into practice on December 22 as part of an anti-war 'Global Orgasm Project'.

Donna Sheehan and her partner Paul Reffel have given a call to all peace-lovers around the world, "especially in countries with weapons of mass destruction", to join the campaign on the winter solstice day "at the time of your choosing, in the place of your choosing and with as much privacy as you choose". And they are serious about it.

The project will "effect (a) positive change in the energy field of the earth through input of the largest possible surge of human energy - a Synchronized Global Orgasm", their website says.

"We have had several e-mails from India. We would like very much to have India join with this physical and spiritual event, in the hope that we can all change the energy of the world for the better," the couple informed in a jointly signed mail.

Their timing is motivated by the "two more US fleets heading for the Persian Gulf with anti-submarine equipment that can only be for use against Iran".

"So the time to change Earth's energy is now!"

It will not be the first time that the couple, co-founders of the anti-war organisation Baring Witness, will employ a rather unusual mode of protest.

In the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq in 2002, Sheehan and some of her peace-loving friends stripped naked and spelled "peace" on a Marin County field. As photographs of their protest spread, similar Baring Witness demonstrations were staged in many parts of the world.

That campaign, however, could only have a limited number of participants. "The Global Orgasm is a way for even more men and women to be involved in changing the way human affairs are conducted in the world.

"The intent is that the participants concentrate any thoughts during and after orgasm on peace. The orgasmic energy combined with mindful intention may have a much greater effect than previous mass meditations and prayers," reads their mission statement.

"The goal is to add so much concentrated and high-energy positive input into the energy field of the earth that it will reduce the current dangerous levels of aggression and violence throughout the world."

The duo hopes the energy levels generated by the event will register on the worldwide monitor system of the Global Consciousness Project of Princeton University.