(Publisher's Note: Wow! It is now sexist and misogynist and another sign of the patriarchy when men derive pleasure out of pleasuring their women. Even a man's desire to make sure that women are sexually satisfied is a selfish act of men doing so for their own sense of "Masculine Achievement". I'm more interested in the editorial decision to post such a click bait article (For clicks,.. duh!), while the study cited a bunch of results that generated a general response from both me and my wife,,... "Duh!". It was another example of doing EVERYTHING possible to cast men is a negative light. This time for men's selfish desire to maximize their sexual pleasure by making sure their women orgasm. This has followed decades of men being criticized for not caring that women are satisfied sexually. I really can't tell if this article is suppose to be funny or is an opening salvo supporting the idea that women can reduce the pleasuring of those detested 'mansplainers' by women denying themselves an orgasm.

Yeah, well,... we use to think such thoughts were dismissible outright, but the recent past observations have my Spidy Senses on edge. Just Say'n)

It's not enough that men are already having more orgasms than women. To make matters worse, a new study published in the Journal of Sex Research found — aside from deriving pleasure from their own orgasms, obviously — men also derive a specific sort of masculine pleasure from making female partners orgasm. The researchers in the study, Sara Chadwick and Sari van Anders, refer to this incredibly predictable phenomenon as a "masculinity achievement." I'm not exactly sure what that means, but I imagine a "masculinity achievement" looks something like Super Mario punching a coin out of one of those floating boxes in the video game.

The study gathered 810 men to read a story where they had to imagine an "attractive woman" either did or did not orgasm during sex with them. Each man was then asked to rate their sexual esteem and the extent to which they'd feel "masculine" after experiencing the scenario. The results are what you'd expect: Men felt more masculine and felt high self esteem when they imagined a woman orgasmed during sex with them. "These results suggest that women's orgasms do function — at least in part — as a masculinity achievement for men," researchers wrote.

Let's be clear — there's nothing wrong with feeling good about making your partner feel good (in this case, orgasming). It's nice to bring pleasure to your partner! But the researchers point out a sexist flaw in the masculinity boost thing.