COSMOPOLITAN UK ORGASM SURVEY 2021

1. What is your age?

2. What is your sexuality?

3. What is your gender?

4. Where do you live?

5. What is your relationship status?

6. Do you consider yourself to have a disability or impairment?

Yes
No
Other (please specify):

7. Have you ever had an orgasm?

Yes
No
I don’t know
Other (please specify):

8. How often do you orgasm during partnered sex?

Every time
Most of the time
Rarely
Never

9. Are you content with how often you orgasm during partnered sex?

Yes, I am completely satisfied
Somewhat, but I would like more
No, I am not content with how often I orgasm
Other (please specify):

10. How often do you orgasm during masturbation?

Every time
Most of the time
Rarely
Never

11. Are you content with how often you orgasm during masturbation?

Yes, I am completely satisfied
Somewhat, but I would like more
No, I am not content with how often I orgasm
Other (please specify):

12. Do you orgasm more regularly from sex with a partner or masturbation?

I orgasm more often via masturbation
I orgasm a similar amount during masturbation and sex
I orgasm more often via sex with a partner
I don't regularly orgasm through either masturbation or sex with a partner

13. Can sex be good/pleasurable without an orgasm?

Yes
No
Other (please specify):

14. How often would you like to orgasm during sex?

Every time
Most of the time
Sometimes
Never

15. Do you regularly use sex toys?

Yes during masturbation
Yes during masturbation and partnered sex
Yes during partnered sex
No

16. Do sex toys improve your chances of having an orgasm?

Yes, I can only orgasm with sex toys
Yes, but I can orgasm without them
No

17. What is most likely to make you orgasm?

Manual clitoral stimulation (external fingering, oral sex)
Clitoral stimulation using sex toys
Manual vaginal penetration (penetrative sex, internal fingering)
Vaginal penetration using sex toys
Simultaneous clitoral and vaginal stimulation
Anal stimulation
Other (please specify):

18. How often does the act most likely to make you orgasm feature in your partnered sex?

Always
Sometimes
Rarely
Never

19. Have you faked an orgasm/told your partner that you orgasmed when you didn’t?

Yes, a few times
Yes, regularly
No

Comments:

20. How often have you faked orgasms in your life?

In every relationship I have been in
In most relationships I have been in
In only one relationship
Never

Comments:

21. Why have you faked orgasms?

Didn’t want to hurt partner’s feelings
Was bored and wanted the sex to end
Was painful and wanted the sex to end
Other (please specify):

22. How often have you faked other aspects of sexual pleasure, when you weren’t really feeling it?

A few times
Regularly
Never

23. When you don’t have an orgasm during sex, how do you feel?

24. How often do you debrief with a partner after sex, and talk about your orgasms/what felt good/what didn’t feel so good?

Every time
Most of the time
Rarely
Never

25. What is preventing you from having more orgasms? (select any that apply)

26. Overall, how satisfying would you say your sex life is?

Very, I orgasm regularly
Very, even though I only orgasm sometimes
Very, even though I never orgasm
It’s okay, and I orgasm regularly
It’s okay, and I orgasm sometimes
It’s okay, even though I never orgasm
It’s unsatisfying, even though I orgasm regularly
It’s unsatisfying, and I only orgasm sometimes
It’s unsatisfying, and I never orgasm

27. Do you speak openly with your friends about your orgasms?

Yes
Sometimes
No

28. If you answered ‘sometimes’ or ‘no’ to the last question, why?

Embarrassment/shame/fear of judgement
It’s private
They don’t talk about their orgasms so I feel I can’t
I don’t feel the need to
They orgasm regularly and so I feel like my experience is unusual
Other (please specify):

29. What would you most like to know about orgasms, masturbation and partnered sex?

Powered by SmartSurvey

Use our survey software to create your survey.