Missionary position is so popular because it really brings couples closer together. However, sexologists have recently revealed a variant of this position which is capable of heightening the pleasure that women get from it.
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By moving just a few centimetres back, the base of the man’s penis is able to brush and rub against his partner’s clitoris. According to a study published in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 56% of women that don’t normally orgasm in missionary position claim that they do so more often when they use this this ‘coital alignment technique’.
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Psychologist and sexologist Megan Fleming from the United States, as quoted in the HuffPost, explained that most women need clitoral stimulation to reach orgasm.
‘Roughly two-thirds of women don’t have an orgasm with penetration alone. CAT (the coital alignment technique) offers direct pressure and rocking and grinding that gives women additional clitoral stimulation,’ she explained.