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I’m a lesbian who used to fake orgasms: I felt like a fraud

It’s a running joke in the lesbian community that we’re better at making women come than men are. And it’s true. Studies have found that women who have sex with women are around 80% likely to have an orgasm, while women who have sex with men are approximately 60% likely to come.

I came out as a teenager, so I took that fact for granted. Instilled in me through the real and virtual conversations around me,

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