Avid readers of women's magazines will, no doubt, be familiar with the latest "three tips" to their "best orgasm ever". They and their exhausted partners may, however, take comfort from the fact that a group of scientists has just found that technique is not everything. Genes, it seems, also make a big contribution to a woman's ability to reach orgasm. The researchers in question—Kate Dunn, who works at Keele University, near Stoke, in England, and Tim Spector and Lynn Cherkas of St Thomas' Hospital in London—came to their conclusion by exploring orgasmic ability in twins. Their finding, reported this week in Biology Letters, is that between 34% and 45% of the variation between women in their ability to orgasm can be explained genetically.
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