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Emily Nagoski on the Science of Sex

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The Sexiest Thing You Can Do Is Hit the Breaks

Your largest sex organ is your skin, and literally anywhere on your body that has skin on it can be a place where erotic, pleasurable sexual sensations happen. Your brain will interpret almost any sensation as sexy and pleasurable if you are already very turned on. Only about a quarter of cisgender women are reliably orgasmic from vaginal penetration; the remaining three quarters are sometimes rarely or never orgasmic from that kind of stimulation.

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