Written by Amanda Elser, senior, journalism, Pennsylvania State University
College Magazine’s sexpert Dr. Robin Sawyer shines some light on the big concerns of size and climax. He answers your burning questions that will, without a doubt, open the door for new conversations with your partner or friends on these popular topics. So enjoy and send in your follow up sextions…we mean questions.
College Magazine: Do guys really think about sex all day?
Dr. Robin Sawyer: I’m not sure that guys think about sex all day (they sometimes think about food or football), but I’d suggest they do think about sex every day! The most recent, comprehensive survey on adult American sexual mores published in the mid ‘90s reported that 54 percent of men and 19 percent of women think about sex daily. I think that college men and women would definitely increase that percentage.
CM: Does size actually matter?
RS: In male/female sex—a woman’s physical sexual response is primarily derived from clitoral stimulation. Additionally, the vagina has no nerve endings on its inner two-thirds. So given those two facts, a man providing stimulation and whose penis is at least 2.5 inches long when erect should be able to get the job done!
CM: What is the most common sex mistake that men make?
RS: Most men believe that women should achieve orgasm every time they have sex. The new millennium man is a sensitive guy who, after watching Entourage and reading his girlfriend’s Cosmo realizes that women have orgasmic needs, and damn it, he’s going to keep hammering away until she reaches Nirvana. Men need to realize, that unlike their sexual response pattern that permits an erection in under five seconds, even women who do orgasm regularly are not necessarily going to achieve climax every time. Guys need to get off the ego train and understand it’s not their technique that’s at fault, it’s just one of those days…or nights. That’s why so many women fake orgasm. In my class one of my male students asked women why they fake orgasm—the response, “To make it stop!”
