It speaks to the complexity of sex that many women still take pleasure in sex despite being unable to reach orgasm. For example, one woman, a 40-year-old who has been married for 12 years, has had three sexual partners in her life, and never once climaxed. But she still enjoys being intimate with her husband. For a long time, she lived resigned to her condition, although she and her husband made multiple attempts to find a solution.

Recently, though, she gained a newfound determination to fix her problem and finally achieve sexual satisfaction. “No matter how old I get or how long [my husband and I] have been together, I am determined to master my own sex orgasm…I deserve to orgasm during sex just as much as he does,” she proclaimed. With this goal in mind, she has taken it upon herself to correct her issue, through any means necessary.