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The female pleasure anatomy explained

Chloe Macintosh: Kama founder

Written by Chloe Macintosh

Chloe Macintosh

Chloe Macintosh is the founder of Kama, a sexual wellness educational platform for all bodies. She has been researching intimacy and sexuality for the past 10 years, traveling the world to meet experts and practitioners. Following her own personal discoveries of pleasure, she has made it her mission to share with the world the importance of prioritizing sexual pleasure and wellbeing as a driving force in our lives.

When it comes to female pleasure, we can get a bit fixated on orgasms and outdated beliefs around what causes pleasure. Contrary to what many of us have been told, pleasure for ourselves doesn’t come from having a tight vagina and squeezing our pelvic floor. Instead, it comes from the walls of the vagina swelling and engorging with fluids, which creates a suction effect and is most pleasurable for all parties involved. In this article, we’ll explain how this works, and the anatomy of female pleasure.

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