New Study Says That Women Fake Orgasms To Assuage Their Male Partner's Fragile Ego

Women faking orgasms is a topic that has been discussed over and over again for a long time now. In fact, it is a common joke among straight women that they have to fake an orgasm in order to make their partner feel like they are adequate. However, sometimes, they do it just so that the act is over because cis-het men do not really understand what's going down there. There are memes and jokes about it all over the internet too.

Now, a recent American study has concluded that women regularly hype up the sexual performances of their male partners, if they perceive that they are fragile psychologically when it comes to their virility.

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The study says that some women are even ready to fake orgasms, thus relegating their own pleasure to the background. When it comes to the bedroom, many men are obsessed with their performance "obligations."

Female partners sometimes feel "obliged" to compliment their male partners, or even fake an orgasm with the sole purpose of pleasing their egos. Published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, the research compiles several surveys on how women seek to help their partners feel masculine, particularly if their ego is fragile.

One survey of 283 women found that the more women think their partner's masculinity is threatened, the more anxious they feel and the less they communicate with them about sex.

According to another survey cited in the study, women who earn more money than their partners are twice as likely as others to fake orgasms. A reaction that underlies the idea (obviously still widespread) that the fact that a man in a heterosexual couple earns less money is equivalent to an attack on his virility.

"These women privilege what they think are the needs of their partner at the expense of their own sexual needs and their satisfaction," outlined lead author Jessica Jordan of the University of South Florida.

A woman's tendency to take care and consider the needs of those around her and try to please them can be associated with the idea of mental load. However, men are negatively impacted by toxic masculinity.

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A concept used in psychology to designate the societal pressures that weigh on men. In particular that of "being manly" or, when it comes to sex, having an impressive performance.

While sexual (mental) charge and toxic masculinity are two very different sociological phenomena, what they have in common is that they harm both genders in how they relate and communicate.

"When society creates a standard of masculinity that is impossible to maintain, no one wins," said Jordan.

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