#3243. “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t”: Women’s accounts of feigning sexual pleasure

September 2026publication date
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Abstract:
Faking orgasm has been identified as a common practice among women and feminist scholars have probed the connections between the socio-cultural meanings associated with faking and heterosex. Using a feminist critical discourse analytic approach, we attend to the dilemma that was frequently evoked in women’s accounts. Participants explained that feigning sexual pleasure was done in order to protect their partners’ ego. However, participants also talked about faking orgasm as being problematic in the sense that it was “deceitful” and “dishonest”. As a way of negotiating this dilemma, participants made a distinction between exaggerating sexual pleasure and faking orgasm. The research discusses women’s negotiation of the limited constructions of “real” pleasure.
Keywords:
Faking orgasm; feminist critical discourse analysis; heterosex; orgasmic imperative; women’s sexuality

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