A new study published this week in the journal Sexual Medicine suggests that the psychoactive plant and other tetrahydrocannabinol -based derivatives can help women with sexual dysfunction achieve orgasm. Female participants who consumed cannabis before sexual activity with a partner were able to reach climax more frequently and with greater ease, and felt overall more satisfied with their orgasms, researchers found.
Researchers analyzed questionnaire responses, submitted anonymously online, from over 1,000 women who had engaged in partnered sex within the past month. After weeding out for ineligible participants — those who were pregnant or breastfeeding, under the age of 18 or had used other intoxicants alongside cannabis before sex — Mulvehill’s team was left with 387 individual surveys on which to draw their conclusions.
Similarly, those who found it difficult to reach orgasm decreased by 35.4% with the use of cannabis, and while 22.8% of participants who don’t use cannabis said climax was nearly impossible to achieve, just 7.4% of participants who used cannabis felt the same. While cannabis won’t likely be dubbed a cureall for those with anorgasmia — a complete absence of orgasm — the intervention helped more than no treatment at all.