Nothing mystifies the world quite like female pleasure. Even in 2022, the very words feel at odds beside one another. Because we don’t live in a society that even understands it, let alone celebrates it. Take the “orgasm gap”, which is the subject of the first episode of Cara Delevingne’s new BBC Three documentary, Planet Sex.
For those who don’t know, the phrase relates to the fact that 95 per cent of men climax during sex compared to just 65 per cent of women. In truth, I think that statistic is far too high, as does Delevingne. But in these supposedly progressive times, why is it that female sexuality is still so widely misunderstood? And why are we no closer to closing the orgasm gap?
