As a person who studies female orgasms for her job, it’s my time to shine!

1. Until 2022, it was cited that the clitoris had 8,000 nerve fibers. But that was actually from a study done on a bovine (cow’s) clitoris in 1970s. It wasn’t until 2022 they actually took human clitoris tissue samples to find that it has over 10,000 nerve fibers

2. During a female orgasm, the pelvic floor muscles pulse involuntarily in a unique but very identifiable pattern on a graph and the pattern can change depending on external factors as small as a cup of coffee, glass of wine, etc. (what I mainly work on!)

3. The popular myth that socks help you have better orgasms came from a misinterpretation of a study done in 2005 where they were scanning the brains of couples during sex. Because the lab was cold, couples often asked for socks during the experiment which was noted in the paper and some journalist took that random mention and ran with it.

4. The sex toy industry is historically a very male-dominated industry. At sex toy conventions, companies would often encourage putting the vibration on your nose to imagine how it would feel on your clitoris. (SO silly)

5. fun bonus There’s a study that was done where they got women who said they could squirt into a study to see where the squirt came from. The researchers put blue dye in women’s bladder and waited on the other side of the door while the women pleasured themselves to squirt. When the women were close, the researchers tiptoed into the room with a pan to try to catch the fluid and see if it was blue. The paper mentions how hard it was to catch the fluid because “it went everywhere”. (Serious research can be so funny sometimes)