Previous research has shown that women’s orgasms function as a masculinity achievement for men. Less clear is whether men’s orgasms function as a gendered achievement for women. In the present study, we explored this question via an experimental design by randomly assigning 440 women (M age = 32.29, SD age = 11.91) to read a vignette in which they imagined that an attractive man either did or did not orgasm during a sexual encounter with them. The women then rated their feelings of achievement, failure, femininity, and masculinity in response to the scenario along with how much they would attribute the situation to themselves or to the man partner. Results showed that women experienced men’s orgasm presence as a femininity achievement and men’s orgasm absence as a femininity failure. There were lesser impacts on women’s feelings of masculinity. Feelings of achievement and failure were stronger for women who attributed the scenario more strongly to themselves. Further, greater sexual assertiveness in general predicted stronger feelings of achievement in response to men’s orgasm presence and greater feminine gender role stress predicted stronger feelings of failure in response to men’s orgasm absence. Together, findings highlight that men’s orgasm seems to function as an achievement for women; however, the connection to femininity (which is less valued and prescribed differently compared to masculinity) denotes that men’s orgasms for women are a different gendered experience with different stakes compared to women’s orgasms for men.

先前的研究表明，女性的性高潮对男性来说是一种男性气质的成就。不太清楚的是，男性的性高潮是否对女性来说是一种性别成就。在本研究中，我们通过实验设计探索了这个问题，随机分配 440 名女性（M 年龄 = 32.29，SD 年龄 = 11.91）阅读一个小插曲，其中她们想象一个有魅力的男人在性行为中要么达到高潮，要么没有达到高潮。与他们相遇。然后，女性根据场景对成就、失败、女性气质和男性气质的感受进行评分，以及她们将这种情况归因于自己或男性伴侣的程度。结果显示，女性将男性高潮的存在视为女性气质的成就，将男性高潮的缺乏视为女性气质的失败。对女性男性气质的影响较小。对于那些将这种情况更多地归因于自己的女性来说，成就感和失败感更强烈。此外，一般来说，性自信程度越高，男性高潮出现时的成就感就越强烈，女性性别角色压力越大，男性高潮缺失时的失败感就越强烈。总之，研究结果强调，男性的性高潮似乎对女性来说是一种成就；然而，与女性气质的联系（与男性气质相比，女性气质的价值较低，规定也不同）表明，与男性的女性高潮相比，女性的男性高潮是一种不同的性别体验，具有不同的风险。