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"ref": "2017 March 10, Jacqueline Howard, “Who orgasms most and least, and why”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2022-12-04",
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"ref": "2018 February 6, Peggy Orenstein, “The Sex Toy Shops That Switched On a Feminist Revolution”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-12-19",
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"ref": "2018 April 20, Chanan Tigay, “A Silicon Valley Pot Deal”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2022-12-06",
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"ref": "2019 March 7, RJ Skinner, “The year in sex studies: From not-so-casual relations to the problems Canadians are having in the bedroom”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 2020-02-20",
"text": "The orgasm gap has never been a secret, but more research keeps unravelling about just how deep and misunderstood it really is. A sexual survey of 1,608 heterosexual couples found that 87 per cent of husbands were consistently achieving orgasms, compared with only 49 per cent of their female counterparts.",
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"ref": "2021 February 13, Alisha Haridasani Gupta, “Emily Morse is Talking Sex to Generation Podcast”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-12-25",
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"ref": "2022 June 11, Hannah Devlin, “Orgasm gap: how Hollywood and science neglected female pleasure”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2023-02-22",
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"ref": "2023 April 26, Emine Saner, quoting Justin Lehmiller, “The rise of voluntary celibacy: ‘Most of the sex I’ve had, I wish I hadn’t bothered’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
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