Of course, thereâ€™s nothing smart about faking it. So it would be a fairly wise faking strategy to moan since men already tend to associate moaning with orgasm.â€ Â€œThere isnâ€™t a lot of research in this area,â€ says Kristen Mark, a sexuality researcher at Indiana University, â€œbut weâ€™re bombarded with images through mainstream media that tell us moaning is associated with orgasm and sexual pleasure. So is female vocalization during sex just a performance for a guyâ€™s benefit? (After all, Meg Ryanâ€™s over-the-top moans were meant to prove a point to â€œHarryâ€ that men are easily duped by a fake orgasm.) Women also reported making noise to relieve boredom, fatigue and pain/discomfort during sex. Â€œWhile female orgasms were most commonly experienced during foreplay, copulatory vocalizations were reported to be made most often before and simultaneously with male ejaculation,â€ write the researchers. Instead, 66% said that they moaned to speed up their partnerâ€™s climax, and 87% stated that they vocalized during sex to boost his self-esteem.Īre female orgasms really just a 'bonus'? The researchers found that many of the women did make noise, but not necessarily while they were having an orgasm. In the study, they asked 71 sexually active heterosexual women between ages 18 and 48 for more details about vocalization during sex.

Last year, Gayle Brewer of the University of Central Lancashire and Colin Hendrie of the University of Leeds published their research on the topic - technically known as â€œcopulatory vocalizationâ€ - in the Archives of Sexual Behavior. Loudly.īut is this just cinematic license, or is there really something to noisy sex?Įxperts wondered the same thing. Read more from him on his website,Â GoodInBed.Īll you have to do is watch nearly any depiction of female orgasm on screen to get an idea of how a woman is â€œsupposedâ€ to react during sex.įrom 'When Harry Met Sally' to 'Sex and the City' to your basic porn film, women in the throes of passion arenâ€™t just shouting their ecstasy from the rooftops - theyâ€™re moaning with pleasure. Ian Kerner, a sexuality counselor and New York Times best-selling author, blogs about sex weekly Â on The Chart.

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