# Have you ever faked not having an orgasm? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 14, 2010, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-faked-not-having-an-orgasm/553672 "2010-09-14T01:07:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-faked-not-having-an-orgasm/553672/41 "2010-09-15T02:13:01Z")
I dunno, some of those Shakespeare sonnets on my college exams were pretty sexy. . . . _Oh, William Shakespeare, “add to thy Will / One Will of mine,” baby._ ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-faked-not-having-an-orgasm/553672/42 "2010-09-15T06:43:24Z")
> [@MichaelEmouse](#): > > > [@Nava](#): > > > > You should be concentrating on the test, of course. > > Come on, betray the Sisterhood. It’s clenching thighs, isn’t it? Your knowledge of human anatomy is quite faulty if you think a vagina is a thigh. Other than that, have a cookie. A girl would be fidgety, then she’d go completely still for an instant, then she’d sort of relax/fold down (think a “phew!” of relief), then she’d start writing furiously. That was all: no noises, no funky faces. And it was Chem Eng school. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-faked-not-having-an-orgasm/553672/43 "2010-09-15T06:49:06Z")
Oh, and bonus TMI: I didn’t even know that was masturbation until I was 22. I knew it was a wonderfully effective way to get rid of stress, but all the information I had about masturbation involved “touching yourself”, which this technique doesn’t. When I was 22, the first edition of the Premio Sonrisa Vertical of erotic literature was won by a book where that is described, and suddenly thousands of young and not-so-young Spanish women discovered that we had been masturbating for years without knowing that we did. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-faked-not-having-an-orgasm/553672/44 "2010-09-15T07:16:52Z")
I’ve never faked it, per se, but I have concealed it from my boyfriend. He was sleeping next to me and I didn’t want to disturb him. Though he might not have been quite asleep, so for all I know he DID know I was rubbing one out next to him. If he did, he never let on. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-faked-not-having-an-orgasm/553672/45 "2010-09-15T09:57:55Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > A girl would be fidgety, then she’d go completely still for an instant, then she’d sort of relax/fold down (think a “phew!” of relief), then she’d start writing furiously. That was all: no noises, no funky faces. Or she could be upset at not knowing the answer to a simple test question, ponder deeply, relax when she thought of it, then begin writing furiously to finish the test and before she forgot again. It matches your observation perfectly, but it doesn’t sound quite as sexy, now, does it? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-faked-not-having-an-orgasm/553672/46 "2010-09-15T12:54:17Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > **lorene** , there are ways for girls to masturbate by just sot of clenching down there but not actually touching themselves. I don’t know–I’ve never done it myself. > > **Nava** , if you were doing it in such a way that she could tell–like making weird faces or whatever–that does seem pretty skeevy. I wish I knew how to do that! Actually, I wish I had orgasms that were easier to come by (no pun intended) in general. It takes me 20 minutes of solid effort most of the time, and if I lose my focus, it’s gone. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-faked-not-having-an-orgasm/553672/47 "2010-09-15T12:58:58Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > > [@Nava](#): > > > > A girl would be fidgety, then she’d go completely still for an instant, then she’d sort of relax/fold down (think a “phew!” of relief), then she’d start writing furiously. That was all: no noises, no funky faces. > > Or she could be upset at not knowing the answer to a simple test question, ponder deeply, relax when she thought of it, then begin writing furiously to finish the test and before she forgot again. > > It matches your observation perfectly, but it doesn’t sound quite as sexy, now, does it? In the first two minutes of the exam, and doesn’t stop writing during the rest of the three hours? You forget that I knew all these girls and that I was one of the girls doing that. Also, in Spain women aren’t expected to scream their brains out during an orgasm or even make any noise one could hear from the other side of a closed flimsy door, the whole “living beside other people” setup invites silence. Let’s do something: I won’t tell you what your sexual experience is, and you don’t tell me about mine. **OpalCat** , one of the regrets I had about losing my virginity is that the change in configuration made this impossible for a while. Kegels helped, but I’ve never been able to do it as easily again. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-faked-not-having-an-orgasm/553672/48 "2010-09-15T13:08:25Z")
> [@evilbeth](#): > > psychic orgasms Give one to James Randi, and you’ll win a million, if he doesn’t fake not having one, that is. …See? There are completely reasonable scenarios in which you’re better off faking. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-faked-not-having-an-orgasm/553672/49 "2010-09-15T13:14:53Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > > [@evilbeth](#): > > > > psychic orgasms > > Give one to James Randi, and you’ll win a million, Hmm, now I wonder if that would be illegal under US prostitution laws… ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-faked-not-having-an-orgasm/553672/50 "2010-09-16T00:02:37Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Let’s do something: I won’t tell you what your sexual experience is, and you don’t tell me about mine. {Musicat checks forum…IMHO, check. Musicat checks message Board…SDMB, check. Musicat checks thread…“Have you ever..”,check.} Yep, we’re in the right place to tell about sexual experiences. Must be a translation glitch. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-faked-not-having-an-orgasm/553672/51 "2010-09-16T05:50:12Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > You should be concentrating on the test, of course. After reading this thread, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to concentrate on a test again. ---
**Author:** ![InterestedObserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@InterestedObserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InterestedObserver)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2010, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-faked-not-having-an-orgasm/553672/52 "2010-09-16T07:52:49Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Have you ever had an orgasm and then denied having had it to any/all individuals who had been intimately involved in the proceedings? > > Feel free to elaborate on the circumstances that caused you to do so, if you did. Um…no. Never faked HAVING one either. (female, ftr). I voted “WTF”😕 When _I_ come, it is obvious. I don’t see how I COULD fake not coming. (Nor have I ever faked, or seen how it was possible to fake, coming,at least with anyone who knew the first thing about me or female sexual response) Geez, now I’m all confused…I do know this much; never faked anything. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-faked-not-having-an-orgasm/553672.md?page=2)