Professional Documents
Culture Documents
KAMASUTRA IN PRACTICE: The Use of Sexual Positions in Czech and Slovak Citizens and Its Association With Female Orgasmicity
KAMASUTRA IN PRACTICE: The Use of Sexual Positions in Czech and Slovak Citizens and Its Association With Female Orgasmicity
net/publication/323701419
CITATIONS READS
0 180,062
4 authors:
Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects:
Power Distribution and Relationship Quality in Long-Term Heterosexual Couples View project
All content following this page was uploaded by Lucie Krejčová on 12 March 2018.
BACKGROUND METHOD
The description of various sexual positions during sexual intercourses has been a The sample of Czech and Slovak heterosexual citizens (9196 men; mean age
topic of popular books. Numerous studies described association of sexual posi- 31.41/8145 women; mean age = 31.64) marked at the detailed list of 13 sexual
tions with orgasmic behavioral displays in primates. In humans, different posi- positions (ranging from missionary techniques to woman on the top variants)
tions are supposed to have diverse impact on female orgasm potential. In the depicted as black-and-white silhouettes (Img. 1), how often did they experienced
representative Swedish sample of women (Fugl-Meyer et al., 2006) the greater such position in life (never - more than 100 times), how pleasant is a position (1
repertoire of sexual techniques (e.g. manual stimulation, oral sex) was a predictor not at all pleasant – 4 very pleasant), and the percentage of intercourses while
of good orgasmic function. However, sexual positions during intercourse were used each position in 5 years (0 - 100 %). VOC was assessed as proportion of
not specified. Studies focused on use of sexual positions across population and penile-vaginal intercourses with stable partner leading to orgasm (1 never – 7
its contribution to sexual functioning are needed. almost always). Gender differences in frequency and attractiveness were tested
using nonparametric Man-Whitney test. The predictive value of age, frequency of
use of various positions during intercourse and pleasantness of positions on VOC
RESEARCH QUESTIONS was tested using linear regression model (backwards method).
1) to assess the frequency of use of various sexual positions in heterosexual
Czech men and women
2) to explore gender differences in pleasantness of sexual positions
3) to test the association between the positions used and female vaginal
orgasm consistency (VOC). Img. 1
A B C D E F G
H I J K L M
RESULTS Fig. 1
The most used position is our sample was missionary position (Fig. 1.). We found 80
80
significant gender differences in pleasantness of all 13 positions (the highest 70
difference found in positions when men receives oral sex from woman and
60
lowest in missionary position) (Tab. 1)
50
VOC with stable partner (in women) was significantly predicted by age (B = 0.029, 40
p < 0.001), the percentage of use of positions: woman on top E (B = 0.05, p = 0.01);
30
I (B = 0.04, p = 0.015); standing back p. J (B = 0.03, p = 0.033); man penetrating
from behind H (B = -0.04, p = 0.02) and pleasantness of positions: missionary A (B 20 40 43
35
40
30
= 0.298, p < 0.001); standing face to face p. C (B = 0.117, p = 0.01); woman on top 10 21
14
E (B = 0.209, p = 0.01); man penetrating from behind H (B = -0.140, p = 0.039); oral 4
10
5
10 10
0
sex on woman K (B = -0.149, p = 0.005); oral sex mutual L (B = 0.083, p = 0.079); A B C D E F G H I J K L M
oral sex on man M (B = 0.110, p = 0.022). Final model: N = 2482; R = 0.295; R 2 =
0.87, p < 0.00001. Tab. 1
the frequency of use of various sexual positions and techniques during foreplay M 7850/6897 8735.69 5824.16 -48.56
(e.g. positive association with woman on top positions and negative with man L 7411/6653 8333.61 5583.15 -44.49
penetrating from behind position) and its perceived pleasantness (e.g. positive F 6617/5942 7318.50 5123.53 -36.05
association with pleasantness of missionary p. and negative with pleasantness of
D 6930/5901 7387.91 5274.61 -35.63
oral sex in women) is associated with female orgasmic potential during inter-
E 8078/7201 8493.27 6682.81 -30.79
course. These are findings with application in sexual therapy.
J 7166/6415 7423.61 6084.34 -22.12