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Lisa Taddeo 

Lisa Taddeo on bad orgasms

When a man asked our columnist if it was OK never to have given a woman an orgasm, it opened a debate on the complex differences between the sexes

The Sunday Times, 

A month ago, Jenni called me as she drove home from being with the man she liked. The man is about a decade younger than she is. He does shots before yoga, and when they have sex, she can hear his roommates playing Fortnite through the room divider.

He went down on me for 40 minutes, she said. It was amazing, probably the best oral I’ve ever had. Then he flipped me around, deftly but not aggressively, and he just. It was just.

Wow, I said, watching as my daughter, in slow motion, dumped a giant glass of milk onto the carpet. I could have stopped it but, weirdly, I didn’t.

At the other end of the line, Jenni said, I want to cry.


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