Aussie researchers develop world-first way of measuring sexual satisfaction - and it reveals one very common yardstick for bedroom performance is VERY overrated

  • Researchers at Southern Cross University in NSW developed the new formula
  • More than 1000 people anonymously completed a sexual satisfaction survey 
  • It found that measuring frequency and amount of orgasms can be misleading 
  • Men had higher expectations that they would be able to pleasure their partners

By Alana Mazzoni For Daily Mail Australia

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Australian researchers have come up with a world-first formula for measuring how satisfied people are in the bedroom. 

Researcher Dr Desirée Kozlowski and honours student Doug Williams from Southern Cross University in northern NSW have developed the groundbreaking new method.

Dr Kozlowski told the Gold Coast Bulletin the frequency or amount of orgasms doesn't necessarily reflect someone's satisfaction. 

'Normally in questionnaires on the subject, male rates of orgasm are so high when compared to female they cease to be a measure of satisfaction,' she said.  

Researchers asked more than 1000 people to anonymously complete a sexual satisfaction survey questionnaire.

So far the survey has shown that men had higher expectations when it came to orgasms, but there was no difference in overall satisfaction with orgasms

So far the survey has shown that men had higher expectations when it came to orgasms, but there was no difference in overall satisfaction with orgasms

Men had higher expectations that they would be able to pleasure their partners, but women had higher experiences of satisfying their partners in the past

Men had higher expectations that they would be able to pleasure their partners, but women had higher experiences of satisfying their partners in the past

Questions ranged from what people's sexual history and experience is like, to their expectations in the bedroom and how much importance they place on different aspects of sexuality.

So far the survey has shown that men had higher expectations when it came to orgasms, but there was no difference in overall satisfaction with orgasms.

Men also had higher expectations they would be able to pleasure their partners, but women had higher experiences of satisfying their partners in the past.  

'When it came to women there was a higher importance on sexual health, power sharing during sex, and avoiding fears. Men placed higher importance on feeling they had performed well,' Dr Kozlowski said.

Research also found an 'orgasm gap,' revealing that men experience more orgasms than women from heterosexual sex - but only when their sexual experience involves a man. 

The gap goes away for women who have sex with other women or when they masturbate. 

Same-sex intercourse and self-pleasuring results in the same rate of orgasm as men, and they take about the same time to climax. 

'Some have tried to explain this away with ideas that women are somehow incapable of orgasm to the same extent as men, or are just not interested, but those arguments don't hold up,' says Dr Kozlowski. 

Researcher Dr Desirée Kozlowski (pictured) and honours student Doug Williams from Southern Cross University in northern NSW have developed the groundbreaking new method

Researcher Dr Desirée Kozlowski (pictured) and honours student Doug Williams from Southern Cross University in northern NSW have developed the groundbreaking new method

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