The anthropologist Margaret Mead concluded in 1948, after observing seven different ethnic groups in the Pacific Islands, that different cultures made different forms of female sexual experience seem normal and desirable. The capacity for orgasm in women, she found, is a learned response, which a given culture can help or can fail to help its women to develop. Mead believed that a woman's sexual fulfillment, and the positive meaning of her sexuality in her own mind, depend upon three factors:1: She must live in a culture that recognizes female desire as being of value;2: Her culture must allow her to understand her sexual anatomy;3: And her culture must teach the various sexual skills that give women orgasms. Naomi Wolf
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Female sexuality is the area of life where women are taught right from wrong. The sexual experience is portrayed as something that needs to be learned and happens through practice, but the real truth is that everyone has their own idea of what sexual experience should look like. An orgasm can mean so many different things for so many different people, and that includes men. If you are a woman who enjoys masturbation, for example, you may find that there are certain positions or positions that work better for you than others. While this maybe just an aspect of your sexual enjoyment, you may find that it's completely normal to not be able to orgasm during certain types of sex.

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