How Necessary is Foreplay for a Woman to Reach an Orgasm?

Love FeetIn what I am assuming is an Onion-style satire article (a pdf is linked about half-way down the page), the Oklahoma Partisan Real-Ass Fake-Ass News reported that a female lawmaker had backed a mandatory foreplay proposal, calling for all men to perform a minimum of ten minutes of foreplay before intercourse.  As usual, the bill was divided across party lines with one male representative claiming that the female orgasm is little more than a myth.

While this is obviously a joke, it would be nice if women everywhere across this fine and beautiful country could stand together and make sure that our sexual needs were met properly. In a study in 2008, researchers found evidence to support claims that foreplay was not actually the key factor in giving a woman an orgasm; instead, the “quality and duration” of the intercourse was the determining factor. Ok.....hmmmm, the researchers basically concluded that it was necessary to scrap the foreplay, which pretty much goes against anything I’ve ever read or understood as a woman.

 Some bloggers (obviously males under the impression that they were well-endowed), even went so far as to write that penis size was actually the most important factor in whether or not a woman would orgasm, which missed the point of the study entirely.

Long and better intercourse is of course nice, but shouldn’t we still be encouraging the guys to focus on foreplay, too? According to Dr. Phil who has actually compiled some pretty interesting stats on the subject, it takes men 2.8 minutes to reach an orgasm and women close to 15 minutes.

Most women reach orgasms through clitoral stimulation (although I understand that some are “built” a little differently), and it takes time to get enough lubrication for intercourse to become comfortable. Of course, you can always use a lubricant such as Pink, but isn’t it worth it to have the time before-hand to enjoy each other and get ready? Nevermind the fact that some women (through no fault of their own) are unable to reach an orgasm during intercourse, which makes me really confused about how skimping on the foreplay could benefit a woman’s orgasm.

I’m not a scientist, so you may want to look at the article describing the study itself in which over 2,000 Czech women were surveyed about their orgasms, foreplay, and intercourse. The results apparently did not show a correlation between the length of foreplay and the woman’s orgasms, which is again, totally unfathomable to me.