DO WOMEN HAVE WET DREAMS, TOO?
Dear Alice,
I'm a sixteen-year-old girl. Do females have wet dreams like
boys??
asking
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Dear asking,
You betcha. In 1953, Alfred Kinsey, Ph.D., the famous sexuality
researcher, found that nearly 40 percent of the 5,628 women he
interviewed experienced at least one nocturnal orgasm (orgasms
during sleep), or "wet dream," by the time they were forty-five
years old. A smaller study published in the Journal of Sex Research
in 1986 found that 85 percent of the women who had experienced
nocturnal orgasms had done so by the age of twenty-one... some even
before they turned thirteen. In addition, women who have orgasms
during sleep usually have them several times a year. Dr. Kinsey and
his colleagues defined female nocturnal orgasm as sexual arousal
during sleep that awakens one to perceive the experience of orgasm.
Girls and women who don't have orgasms in their sleep, or who don't
know whether or not they've had them, are perfectly normal. It may
be easier for men to identify their wet dreams because of the
"ejaculatory evidence." Vaginal secretions could be a sign of
sexual arousal without orgasm.
Similar studies find that a much higher percentage of boys and men
experience wet dreams. This, combined with a greater focus on male
sexuality by science and the public in general, are probably two
big reasons why we don't hear very much about women's nighttime
orgasms. In fact, Alice thinks this is the first time this question
has been posed here. Thanks for asking.
For some more information about wet dreams, read Dry up my wet
dreams! in Alice's Sexuality archive.
Alice
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