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Researchers and My Uncle Claim Foreplay is Overrated
According to a survey based on 2,300 women, foreplay has little or no significance when it comes to the likelihood of having an orgasm. What seems to matter is the duration of intercourse, 16.2 minutes on average. It should be noted that this study was done with Czech women. When a similar study was done with US women the average length of intercourse was a limp 7 minutes. Way to go team USA! "In contrast to the assumptions of many sex therapists and educators, more attention should be given to improve the quality and duration of intercourse rather than foreplay," say Professor Stuart Brody of the University of the West of Scotland, and Professor Peter Weiss, from Charles University, Prague.
Going back as far as the 1970s, it's been found, over and over, through studies, that the vast majority of women do not, I repeat, do not orgasm as a result of vaginal intercourse. Best results I've heard are only 30% of women can orgasm through vaginal intercourse alone, and some quote results as low as 10-15%. Women need clitoral stimulation in at least 70% of cases either through cunnilingus or through fingering to be able to achieve orgasm. I don't know who did this survey, but either they've selected a large number of women who don't fit the profile, or there is some aspect of female sexuality that is different there.
Further, women need foreplay if for no other reason than to allow them to be receptive to intercourse (as in allowing the vagina to relax) and to lubricate properly. Don't know where these people got their results, but I suspect there's something not quite right about them. Or perhaps if intercourse goes on this long it might be entirely different.
The lessons of history teach us - if they teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.