Clitoris is not a dirty word – but society's fear of it has disastrous consequences
People still tiptoe around the word as if the mere mention of something that exists purely for female pleasure is obscene
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Why do women fake orgasms?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that most heterosexual women have faked an orgasm at some point in their life. According to one survey, conducted by the trusty academic journal Cosmopolitan, 67% of women have pretended to climax.
There are lots of obvious reasons why women faux-gasm – they don’t want to hurt their partners feelings, for example, or they’re just tired and want to go to sleep. However, according to a another big
