Julia recently became Development Director with the Pennell Initiative for Women s Health a new charity aimed at championing the health rights of women during the menopause and beyond. She now writes and broadcasts widely on relationship problems. Julia s currently Agony Aunt for Candis magazine and BBC Wiltshire Sound and has contributed to Essentials and Best magazines, the BBC Education Web Site, New Woman, The Mirror, The Daily Mail, and The Express. She s also written a number of books and regularly contributes to national radio and TV programmes.
Many women suffer from difficulties in reaching an orgasm during sex at some time in their life.
There are two different categories of orgasm difficulties primary and secondary. Primary anorgasmia means that the woman has never experienced an orgasm, either in masturbation or in sex with a partner. Secondary anorgasmia means that the woman has experienced orgasm at least once before perhaps in a previous relationship or through masturbation but does not have an orgasm during sex now. Some kinds of anorgasmia depend on the particular situation that the woman is in. For instance, she may be able to have an orgasm through foreplay, but not during penetration, or she may be able to masturbate to orgasm but does not reach orgasm with a partner.