Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Ministry Of Sexy Walks

Researchers at the barely known University of the West of Scotland have just released a study on the relationship between a woman's gait and the history of her vaginal orgasms. I'm no scientist, but unless she walks with her legs crossed, that's the only indicator I can measure if she's orgasmed or not.

The study was published in both The Journal of Sexual Medicine of the International Society of Sexual Medicine and the Society for Study of Women's Sexual Health, both which probably have the circulation of the informational brochures of the University of the West of Scotland.  Sixteen college aged female subjects from Belgium were videotaped from a distance while walking, and later asked to complete a questionnaire. Then, the videotapes were "assessed" by two professors of sexology and two research assistants with training in "functional-sexological approach to sexology".  As we all suspected, the sexologists chosen to assess the video tapes had no prior knowledge of the orgasmic history of these women, but miraculously, they were able to discern their history of orgasms with 80% accuracy.  That's a pretty good return for guessing.

The big finding was that the sum of stride length and vertebral rotation of a woman in motion was higher for "vaginally orgasmic women". One cause could be a woman's anatomical features may predispose her to experience vaginal organism.  Also, vaginally orgasmic women might feel more confident about their sexuality, which would be reflected in their stride.  I am skeptical about these results on so many levels, I don't know where to begin.  Sexology professors?  Obscure schools and publications?  Female orgasm?

While I am all for studying vagina, I'm not sure a woman's walk tells us more than how well she can move in whatever shoes she picked to wear.  If anything, we should be studying women on their backs, not their feet if we want to get further information about their vaginas. 

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