Cannabis helps improve women’s orgasms: Study

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If the woman in your life is ready to get lit up, then it may be time to spark up.

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A study published recently in the journal Sexual Medicine suggests that cannabis can help women who are dealing with sexual dysfunction achieve orgasm.

Female study participants who took cannabis before engaging in sexual activity with a partner were able to reach climax more frequently and with greater ease, researchers found.

The women also shared that overall, they felt more satisfied with their orgasms.

For author Suzanne Mulvehill, executive director of the Female Orgasm Research Institute and founder of the Women’s Cannabis Project, the study was personal.

“I was interested in this topic because it was cannabis that helped me overcome my own orgasm difficulty, something I tried to overcome for more than 30 years, seeing four sex therapists in this time frame and trying other treatment modalities,” Mulevehill told PsyPost.

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“I wanted to research if other women who had orgasm difficulty were also benefitting from cannabis.”

Researchers based their conclusions on 387 surveys after eliminating hundreds of ineligible participants (those who were pregnant and breastfeeding, under the age of 18 or had used other drugs besides cannabis).

They determined that women who previously struggled to orgasm benefitted from a nearly 40% increase in climax frequency due to cannabis, while a whopping 88.8% of participants said they reached orgasm more frequently with cannabis, compared to 63.3% without it.

The respondents who said they seldom or never climax went from 36.6% down to 11.4% with the use of pot.

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“The largest group of women with orgasmic dysfunction ‘almost always or always’ orgasm with cannabis before sex and ‘almost never or never’ orgasm without it,” Mulvehill noted.

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“Whereas women without orgasmic dysfunction tend to orgasm with or without cannabis before sex.”

Researchers also determined that those who found it difficult to reach orgasm decreased by 35.4% with the use of cannabis.

Meanwhile, 22.8% of participants who don’t use cannabis said climax was nearly impossible to achieve, while just 7.4% of the women who used cannabis felt the same.

Perhaps the main takeaway is the pleasure that came with cannabis, as the participants’ satisfaction levels nearly doubled, skyrocketing from 43.6% to 86.1%.

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“My research, which was the first to dichotomize women with and without orgasm difficulty, supported 50 years of cannabis and sex research revealing statistically significant results that cannabis helps women who have orgasm difficulty and improves orgasm frequency, ease, and satisfaction,” Mulvehill said.

Mulvehill hopes to eventually develop and get approved a cannabis-based prescription medication that treats female orgasmic dysfunction.

The researchers noted that the duration of cannabis use before sex did not significantly affect the results, indicating that the drug could benefit both new and long-term users.

However, while the study showed promising results for a significant majority of participants, it was not effective for all, Mulvehill noted.

“About 4% of the women with female orgasmic dysfunction in the study used cannabis before sex and did not yet experience an orgasm, revealing that cannabis did not help all women orgasm.”

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