Learning how to increase orgasm has fascinated people for centuries. For every geeky scientist who spends the night in a lab, there are some really interesting characters. One of the more unusual characters was simply called Narjani. She would change sexual research permanently with her discovery of the types of vagina teleclitoridiennes, mesoclitoridiennes and paraclitoridiennes.
Narjani was (Obviously) a pseudonym. The researchers’ real name was Princess Maria Bonaparte (yes, she was related to Napoleon). Princess Bonaparte spent most of her life without orgasms. This was not for lack of trying, as she not only had a husband but also several lovers. Frustrated, she became convinced that something must be physically wrong with women who couldn’t orgasm. She began one of the most comprehensive quests in the history of sex research: to measure the exact anatomy of as many female subjects as possible. What she discovered would change everything.
The three types of vagina
While they may sound like creatures from Jurassic Park, the three types of vaginas, teleclitoridiennes, mesoclitoridiennes, and paraclitoridiennes almost perfectly predict which women can orgasm from penetration and which can’t. Marie divided the women into each of these groups based on the distance between the clitoris and the vagina and whether the test subject could freely orgasm from intercourse alone:
If the distance was one inch (between two and three centimeters) the woman was teleclitoral. Marie wrote that a fifth of women fell into this group. This was unfortunately as these women rarely have orgasms during intercourse. Marie was also teleclitoral and, like other similar women, spent most of her adult life without orgasm.
On the other hand, there were the paraclitoridians, who easily had orgasms during intercourse. Princess Bonaparte admitted to being “vagina envious” when she wrote about the lucky women who, because the clitoris and vagina were closer than an inch, enjoyed the man’s pelvic thrusts directly on their clitoris and were able to enjoy the orgasms that she lacked. It seems that Marie got a little carried away when she announced that sixty-five percent of women had these advantageous genitalia: most modern researchers put the figure closer to thirty percent.
The remaining women were the mesoclitoridiennes who could occasionally reach orgasm from penetrative intercourse. For these women, their partner’s skills made all the difference. These women had a distance between their female erogenous zones of about an inch.
The ‘rule of thumb’ and how to increase orgasm in all vagina types
If you can’t figure out how big an inch is, you can make an estimate using your thumb (most people’s thumbs are about an inch thick). Later, a sex researcher named Kim Wallen would invent an ironic ditty: “If the distance is less than the width of your thumb, you’re likely to cum.”
So all is doom and gloom for teleclitorides, right? Not really! Refusing to give up, Princess Bonaparte conducted a series of bedroom experiments on five different lovers. She discovered that she could have an orgasm much more easily if she sat face to face.
Similarly, many commentators have pointed out that although a raised clitoris makes it difficult to orgasm during penetration, it makes it much easier for your partner to stimulate the clitoris during oral sex. Similarly, during intercourse, your partner can easily finger your clitoris (Tip: use lots of lube) and give you an orgasm that way.
Knowledge of vagina types is quite advanced, but for those who are interested, it can be a way to tailor the sexual experience uniquely to your partner and give her the first orgasm she’s ever had.
