Most women do not experience vaginal pleasure at first coitus.

Evidence

Here we reach the crucial problem of feminine eroticism: at the beginning of her erotic life, woman’s abdication is not rewarded by a wild and confident sensual pleasure. She would readily sacrifice modesty and pride if it meant opening up the gates of paradise. But it has been seen that defloration is not a successful accomplishment of youthful eroticism; it is on the contrary an unusual phenomenon; vaginal pleasure is not attained immediately; according to Stekel’s statistics—confirmed by many sexologists and psychologists—barely 4 percent of women experience pleasure at the first coitus; 50 percent do not reach vaginal pleasure for weeks, months, or even years. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 988

Categorization

• QUESTION: These early-20th-century statistics on female orgasm merit scrutiny against modern sexological data; do contemporary studies confirm such low rates?
• XREF: connects to: Penetration, not pain, is what most marks a woman’s first intercourse.; Promiscuous defloration without deep arousal leaves women sexually uninitiated — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 986; Gender differences in sexual enjoyment are small except for two specific acts — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2357

Broader Connections

• Promiscuous defloration without deep arousal leaves women sexually uninitiated #expands (0.85) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 986
• Gender differences in sexual enjoyment are small except for two specific acts #qualifies (0.70) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2357