Sex is a method for reaching a sensual objective, which, when achieved gives satisfaction. During sex what is important is to experience that sensual satisfaction, and it may not be necessary to go through every stage of the sexual response cycle.

Causes of Reduced Orgasmic Pleasure

Orgasmic pleasure is considerably reduced in drug abuse (brown sugar in particular), myopathy, alcoholics, neuropathy and anxiety disorders.

Though different people describe orgasm in different ways, and call it by different names, in essence they all agree that it is a state of supreme pleasurable satiety where there is a feeling of ‘enough and nothing more’.

It is interesting to note that different people in the diversity of their ethnic, socio-cultural and linguistic backgrounds are united in the expression and description of their orgasmic experience, which they unanimously agree, is, in essence, a sense of supreme pleasurable satiety and ecstasy.

No. Local genital stimulation is not mandatory for reaching orgasm. The female anatomy provides for multiple erogenous zones any of which may be stimulated to reach orgasm.
In fact, it has been observed that in the event of absence or trauma to the external genitalia, existing alternate erogenous zones become more sensitive and new ones develop. Some women can reach orgasm by nipple stimulation alone. I have come across women with absent vaginas who are able to reach orgasm satisfactorily by alternate means.

In a study carried out on ritually circumcised South African women, Hanny Lightfoot Klein reports that these women had retained their orgasmic capacity in spite of the local genital mutilation.

There is not any difference between ‘clitoral orgasm’ and vaginal orgasm’. An orgasm may be more or less satisfying depending upon several Factors, but whatever be the means of stimulation, ultimately “All roads lead to Rome.”