Study Finds Women Are Faking Orgasms To End Sexual Encounters Of Rape

Women faking orgasms isn't news, but a new study has found that trying out one's acting skills have helped a number of women end sexual encounters, including situations of rape. These encounters also include "bad" sex, but the fact that sexual assault could be stopped is a huge step in rape research. This new study has revealed that such instances of sex came to an end due to a woman faking an orgasm, with the mentality of "getting it over with" as the underlying reasoning. Keep reading to find out more about women faking orgasms to end sexual encounters, like rape.What are the reasons you fake orgasms? Hopefully not serious reasons like this study revealed. Let us know in the comments section below.

The study. According to The Independent, this study spoke with a number of women to learn more about feigning pleasure in sexual encounters, but happened upon a bit of a revelation.

Consent. While the study hoped to talk to women about consensual sex and faking orgasms, it was never brought up as a rule in the questions. So, they learned about women faking orgasms during rape and coerced sex.

Unwanted. The researchers were simply shocked to discover the number of women in this study that faked orgasms to end unwanted sex, leading to these new findings.

Psychology. Psychologist Emily Thomas spoke to The Independent about the study and its findings, explaining that unwanted sexual encounters fall into a few categories. Rape and coercion are two of those categories.

Unpleasurable. “While some women spoke about faking orgasm in positive ways, for instance, as a pleasurable experience that heightened their own arousal, many talked about feigning pleasure in the context of unwanted and unpleasurable sexual experiences,” Thomas explained.

Struck. She continued: “Within these accounts, we were struck by the degree to which women were connecting the practice of faking orgasm to accounts of unwanted sex.”

Analysis. According to the study, the women taking part in the research never used "rape" or "coercion" when speaking to the researchers. However, what they were describing were definitely not consensual acts.

Indirect. Instead of just coming out and saying the sex was unwanted, they used "indirect" ways of describing the encounters. Saying the sex was "bad" is one way of saying it was both unpleasurable and unwanted.

Phenomenon. According to the study, instead of seeing faking orgasms as a joke of sorts, the practice is more of a complex phenomenon.

Faking. It can be used as a strategy of coping in unwanted sexual encounters, as the study has learned, but this also reveals something a little disturbing.

Silence. To "cope" is to adjust to a situation. If that situation is unwanted sex, that's not a good thing. Basically, these women can fake the orgasms to get out of rape or other situations because they feel they can't speak up.

Rape. The study found that these women live in a culture that discourages against speaking out against unwanted sex, and could even be dangerous.

Faking. “It appears that faking orgasm is both problematic and helpful at the same time,” Thomas surmises.

Faking. “On the one level faking an orgasm may be a useful strategy as it affords some control over ending a sexual encounter. We are not criticizing faking practice on an individual level. 

Conclusion. “We want to focus on the problems with our current lack of available language to describe women’s experiences that acknowledges names and confronts the issues women spoke of in our interviews.”