Scientists from the University of Michigan found that people can experience painful or unpleasant orgasms even during consensual sex. In the study, published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, researchers asked 726 people about their past sexual experiences when they may have felt compelled to have sex, forced to orgasm, or consented to sex they didn’t really want.
More than half – about 55% of the participants – experienced a “bad” orgasm in such situations.
Reasons for “bad” orgasms also included weak orgasms due to an over-focus on the desire to have an orgasm due to social pressure: most believe that an orgasm is a mandatory end to sex, and also its presence indicates the quality of sex. Some men and women in the study felt the need to experience orgasm in order to please their partners. Some participants stated that pain was the cause of the unpleasant orgasms. Such sensations may indicate sexual dysfunction, lack of arousal, or excessive fatigue.
Others attributed them to shame and guilt about sex due to religious and sociocultural factors. Gender dysphoria, especially in transgender people, has also been found to be another cause of unpleasant orgasms.
It is also noted that a poor physical and emotional connection with a partner can prevent some from fully relaxing and unwinding during sexual activity.
Source: Rosbalt
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