A recent study published in the January issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine claims foreplay doesn't contribute as much to a woman's orgasm as actual penetration.

Sigh.

Fair enough, but the results were delightfully skewered just enough so that inexperienced men giving this study the once over may think: "Oh! So all that oral really doesn't matter? Sweet!"

Ugh. We'll just say it again. Ugh. And, no. Not exactly.

The study followed 2, 360 Czech women and asked how consistently they orgasmed and the circumstances leading up to it. How long was the foreplay? How long was the intercourse? And how out of the blue was it for them to be orgasming period?

Well, according to these women, sex time was highly correlated with their O face, but foreplay not so much. Just for reference, the standard foreplay time was 15.4 minutes and the standard intercourse time was 16.2 minutes.

Well then. With intercourse spanning 16 minutes maybe we'd orgasm more frequently, too (Ouch. That wasn't very nice).

Not missing a beat, authors Petr Weiss and Stuart Brody added: "It could be that this reflects, on average, a greater appreciation of intercourse and sensuality by Europeans than by Americans." Quite a loaded statement from such an objective scientist, no?

Regardless, the statistics, as pulled from Psychologytoday. com went as such. "Women who report average intercourse length of 1 to 10 minutes, 50% had an orgasm most of the time and 28% had them in a minority of cases or never. For women who report 11 to 20 minutes, the numbers are 62% and 22%, and for the women who boink more than 20 minutes they're 72% and 13%."

So what about sex lasting longer than 20 minutes? Would that number just keep rising? We don't think so, and we're not even entirely sure it's possible to put a definite number of minutes until the female orgasm is reached. Even for theoretical purposes. Female orgasms really are an elusive and mysterious force that are often as complicated and particular as the woman they're attached to (sorry fellas).

Frustratingly, often times what works for one, won't work for another. Men should just be happy their equipment is so user-friendly.

While we'll smile and nod at the above and meet the researchers halfway by agreeing that, yes, intercourse from an attentive partner certainly won't detract from an orgasm, we gotta call their bluff on this last sentence.

"Another interesting stat: Of the women who report that intercourse usually lasts only 1-5 minutes, fully two thirds said they come with their partner at least about half the time, and 19.4% said they come "almost every time."

(Bullsh*t)