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File this under “No Duh.” A new study out of Britain indicates that women with higher emotional intelligence have more orgasms.
[The study] quizzed more than 2,000 female twins, aged between 18 and 83, about their sex lives. The women were asked to rate their ability to reach orgasm on a seven-point scale, ranging from ‘never’ to always’.
They also filled in a questionnaire designed to gauge their emotional intelligence and covering traits like self-expression, empathy and contentment.
Those most in touch with their feelings also had the most orgasms, the Journal of Sexual Medicine reports.
Lead author, psychologist Andrea Burri … said: ‘Emotional intelligence seems to have a direct impact on women’s sexual functioning by influencing her ability to communicate her sexual expectations and desires to her partner.’
Here’s what kind of annoys me about this: The Daily Mail is running the study under the headline “Intelligent women have better sex, study reveals.” That’s not what this study says. It says women with higher emotional intelligence have more orgasms. Emotional intelligence is not the same as IQ.
Another thing that bothers me about this headline is the implication that orgasm frequency determines the quality of your sex life. Don’t get me wrong — orgasms are awesome — but isn’t it possible to have a satisfying sex life without having multiple orgasms each night? I know a lot of women struggle with the ability to reach orgasm — and I feel for them, I really do — but I get frustrated with this sense that if we’re not reaching climax every single time, something’s broken, or we’re not really enjoying it. It’s one (of, admittedly, many) reason that women fake orgasms — because our partners feel like if we didn’t come, we didn’t have a good time. Why the pressure? A roll-around in bed with someone you adore can be a great time even if you don’t wind up getting off.
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“Emotional Intelligence” is so fuzzy that all it’s good for are cheesy pop news bits–like this one.
Agreed.
Frankly, it’s the Daily Mail, which every single morning features on its cover articles about how immigrants or the government are destroying Britain. I wouldn’t expect any intelligence from them.
But immigrants and the government ARE destroying Britain!
Jkjk I kid. XD I’m ignorant to foreign things (except the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, which I could recite).
oh jeese
the first thing i thought when i read the headline was “more intelligent women must just be better at imagining they’re doing someone ELSE”
i hate myself
and my imagination
What exactly do they mean by emotional intelligence??
I hate these Cosmo-type articles. They’re designed to make women feel inadequate and buy some ridiculous product/book to “fix” them. Yawn.