Understanding Sexual Response

Having only ever experienced a true sexual release through masturbation alone, I gradually came to the realisation that many assumptions about female sexuality defy common sense. Understanding Sexual Response sets out my research work, which involves asking other women how they achieve the orgasms with a lover that are portrayed in erotic fiction. I discuss the similarities and differences between my own sexuality and the equivalent male behaviours and responses that I have observed in my male lovers.

Hi, I am Jane Thomas, the sex educator and researcher. My work challenges the many misconceptions and contractions in our beliefs about the orgasms women are assumed to be capable of with a lover. I ask women and their lovers to explain the erotic turn-ons, the anatomy and the stimulation technique involved in female orgasm. I am so grateful to those few individuals who have been willing to comment. I have even learned from the universal silence and drawn my own conclusions from it.