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Misconceptions

Before we can start to understand sexuality, we must first dismiss the many misconceptions and assumptions that dominate popular beliefs.

Women respond to real-world erotic triggers as men do

Women depend on a lover to stimulate them to orgasm

The function of foreplay is to assist with female arousal

Women are proactive lovers due to their own arousal

Women are constantly aroused and orgasmic with a lover

Women orgasm from clitoral stimulation (cunnilingus)

Women orgasm from vaginal stimulation (intercourse)

Women can masturbate themselves to orgasm with a lover

Women masturbate as commonly and as frequently as men

Women are driven to engage in intercourse just as men are

Women experience arousal and orgasm as easily as men do

Women have the exact same sexual needs that men have

Identifying the erroneous assumptions about sexuality