We Identify Proven Pathways to Orgasm
Grounded in research, and driven by purposeful action, we help women improve their health and quality of life.
The Four Pillars
Proven Pathways to Orgasm
We identify and advance research-supported orgasmic learning pathways that help women access, learn, and strengthen their orgasmic capacity. Our work brings together science, clinical research, and women’s lived experience to expand what is known about how women become orgasmic.
Science
Our team conducts and publishes original research and brings together female orgasm research from around the world. We are working to build a comprehensive online research library that will make decades of evidence easier to find, understand, and use, while revealing the questions that still need to be studied.
Orgasmology
We are establishing and advancing Orgasmology as a scientific and professional discipline. Orgasmology is the interdisciplinary study of how orgasmic capacity is accessed, learned, strengthened, and expanded, including through the Orgasmology Framework and its state-dependent model of orgasmic learning.
Policy & Advocacy
We translate research into action. Our advocacy helped make Connecticut the first state to add Female Orgasmic Difficulty/Disorder as a qualifying condition for medical cannabis in 2024, followed by Illinois in 2025, which added Female Orgasmic Disorder. We are now working to advance legislative changes in additional states to expand recognition and access for women’s health conditions.
Did you know that up to 46% of women struggle with having orgasms?
We want to change that
Purpose and Approach
At Female Orgasm Research Institute we use the following approaches to meet our goal.
Build Awareness
Build social awareness to the enormity of the problem of women experiencing orgasmic difficulties.
Identify the Solution
Identify research that shows what helps women experience pleasure and orgasm.
Recognize Scientific Progress
Identify women’s rights to benefit from scientific progress.
Facilitate law advocacy and social change
Facilitate public policy initiatives and social change.
Facts
The Female Orgasm Research Institute is dedicated to advancing understanding of female pleasure.
From Glowm
The range and variety of women presenting with orgasmic complaints are so great that it is not always clear from the outset what treatment intervention will be most useful.
From Huffpost
From CNN Health
According to a large-scale survey of American adults, women have about one orgasm for every three a man enjoys. We call this the Orgasm Gap.
From CNN
More and more studies are shedding light on the “Orgasm Gap,” which refers to how men orgasm during sex more frequently than women.
The Guardian
While 95% of heterosexual men reported that they usually or always orgasmed during sexually intimate moments, just 65% of heterosexual women did.
From PUBMED
Among patients in an American outpatient gynecological clinic and a UK general practice clinic, 29% and 23% of women reported orgasmic difficulties.
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