Women Who Prefer Longer Penises Are More Likely to Have Vaginal Orgasms (but Not Clitoral Orgasms): Implications for an Evolutionary Theory of Vaginal Orgasm

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3079-3088

  Costa, Rui Miguel ^a   Miller, Geoffrey F ^b   Brody, Stuart ^c  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intercourse; Penis length; Vaginal orgasm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLITORAL ORGASM; CLITORIS; COITUS; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; ORGASM; PENIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VAGINA; VAGINAL ORGASM;

EID: 84870612370     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2012.02917.x     Document Type: Article

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