Wendie Trubow explores whether partnered sex changes orgasm's health benefits. There's no direct research comparing partnered versus solo orgasms, though both offer benefits. Novelty with a new partner boosts women's sex drive, but that's not helpful advice for people in long-term relationships.
When we're looking at the effects of an orgasm, you don't need a partner to have an orgasm. Is the partner part required or just helpful or neither?
I don't see anything. I've not seen anything from a study perspective that's really saying one versus the other. There hasn't been a good study that's like, hey, this is what happens. Orgasm with a partner. This is what happens. Orgasm with a self. A lot of the work on, you know, monogamous couples is really about, hey, let's look at all of these different things that can help the relationship be stronger so that people ultimately can have more passion. But also just better relationships, better connection, happier relationships. Right. But from the true like orgasm oxytocin thing, I mean, I don't, like I said, I don't think there's like a specific study, at least none that I've seen that I've looked at that. But I do think there are so many benefits out of masturbation and self pleasure and perhaps the same level.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
You know, it's funny because they've studied women who have been partnered for a period of time and found that the number one thing to improve a woman's sex drive is novelty, I. E. A new partner.
Yeah.
But for people who are in long term monogamous, committed relationship, that's not an option.
