The Satisfaction of Women’s Orgasms: The Relationship Between Women’s Orgasmic Pleasure and Sexual Relationship Satisfaction in Aotearoa/New Zealand

These findings demonstrate an association between women's orgasms and their relationship satisfaction. Consistent with research in other Western populations, sex and relationship therapists working with women aiming to improve their sexual relationship satisfaction might achieve better outcomes by focusing on interventions that increase the frequency of sex and/or improve orgasm consistency. Nevertheless, reaching orgasm every time is neither necessary nor necessarily better for a woman's satisfaction, information that might help couples manage distress when orgasm does not occur and reduce a goal-oriented mindset that might hinder both orgasm and sexual pleasure.