Most Common Orgasm Blockers and Types of Orgasm Difficulty
Learn about common patterns of orgasm difficulty and the physical, psychological, relational, medication-related, and learned factors that may interfere with orgasmic response.
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Free Orgasm Training Guides
Discover New Pathways to Orgasm Through Orgasm Training
Orgasm is not simply something that happens—or doesn't happen.
Women can learn more about their orgasmic response, recognize patterns that may be getting in the way, and explore new pathways toward greater orgasmic access.
The Female Orgasm Training Institute has created these free orgasm training guides to help women better understand orgasmic difficulty, sexual response, orgasmic learning, and the process of becoming more orgasmic.
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Understanding & Strengthening Your Orgasmic Response
Start here to better understand orgasmic difficulty, the nervous system, pleasure, sensation, and the different ways orgasmic response may be strengthened through learning and practice.
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The Neuroscience of Female Orgasm
Explore how the brain, nervous system, attention, arousal, inhibition, and learning interact during orgasm—and why understanding these systems may open new pathways for training.
View GuideTraditional Treatments for Orgasm Difficulty and Orgasmic Learning: What's Different?
Compare traditional approaches to orgasm difficulty with orgasmic learning, a framework emphasizing practice, repetition, nervous-system conditions, and strengthening access to orgasmic response.
View GuideUnderstanding and Cultivating a Pleasure Practice
Learn how intentional attention to pleasure can become an ongoing practice rather than something left to chance, while discovering more about your own patterns of sexual response.
View GuideKundalini Yoga and the Sexual Nervous System: Research on Stress, Anxiety, Trauma and Sexual Function
Explore research and practices connecting yoga, breath, movement, stress regulation, anxiety, trauma, the nervous system, and sexual function.
View GuideReconnecting Intimately: A Guide for Partners After a Sexual Hiatus
A practical resource for couples who want to rebuild sexual connection after time apart from intimacy, with an emphasis on communication, gradual reconnection, and reducing pressure.
View GuideCannabis-Assisted Orgasm Training
Cannabis may affect attention, inhibition, sensation, anxiety, and sexual response differently for different women. These resources explore the research, personal considerations, practical use, and orgasmic-learning framework surrounding cannabis and female orgasm difficulty.
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Understand Cannabis, Orgasm & the Evidence
Cannabis and Female Orgasm Difficulty: An Overview
Start here for an accessible introduction to cannabis and female orgasm difficulty, including why researchers and clinicians are exploring its potential role in female sexual response.
View GuideMedical Cannabis and Female Orgasm Difficulty: A Scientific Perspective
Take a deeper look at the scientific evidence examining cannabis, orgasm, female sexual function, and the questions researchers are continuing to investigate.
View GuideThe History of Cannabis Helping Women Orgasm
Explore the historical and contemporary relationship between cannabis, women's sexuality, pleasure, and orgasm.
View GuideHow Cannabis Helps Heal Orgasm Difficulty
Explore proposed ways cannabis may reduce inhibition, quiet distraction, increase sensory awareness, and create conditions that some women report as helpful for accessing orgasmic response.
View GuideWork Through Fear, Stigma & Resistance
Why Using Cannabis to Experience Orgasm Might Scare You
Explore fear, uncertainty, dependence concerns, cultural messages, and other emotions that can arise when considering cannabis as part of sexual exploration or orgasm training.
View GuideBreaking Taboos: Cannabis and Female Pleasure
Examine stigma and cultural beliefs surrounding women, cannabis, sexuality, and pleasure—and how those messages may influence a woman's willingness to explore her own response.
View GuideLearn to Use Cannabis Intentionally
Using Cannabis Before Sex
A practical introduction to approaching cannabis before sexual activity with greater intention, including preparation, awareness, communication, and attention to your individual response.
View GuideTop 10 Cannabis Strains for Enhanced Sexual Pleasure
Explore ten cannabis varieties discussed in relation to relaxation, sensation, arousal, and sexual pleasure, while recognizing that cannabis effects can vary considerably from person to person.
View GuideThe Cannabis Orgasm Hack No One Talks About
Explore a practical cannabis-assisted approach to noticing and experimenting with the conditions that may make orgasmic response easier to access and repeat.
View GuidePractice, Track & Learn From Your Response
Dr. Mulvehill's Personal Orgasm Training Journal
Dr. Suzanne Mulvehill spent decades experiencing orgasm difficulty before beginning her own process of orgasm training. These first-person writings share parts of that journey—the questions, discoveries, fears, experiments, and experiences that shaped her understanding of orgasmic learning.
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Breaking Through Sexual Shame — Part One
Dr. Mulvehill reflects on sexual shame, early conditioning, cultural messages, and the beliefs she began confronting during her own process of sexual and orgasmic exploration.
Read Journal EntryBreaking Through Sexual Shame — Part Two
The exploration continues with a closer look at how sexual shame can persist and what may begin to change when curiosity, permission, and self-trust replace old messages.
Read Journal EntryGive Yourself Permission and Setting Goals
A personal reflection on giving yourself permission to pursue pleasure and becoming intentional about what you want to learn, experience, or change.
Read Journal EntryTrust, Safety and Orgasm
Dr. Mulvehill explores the relationship between trust, safety, vulnerability, and her own ability to access sexual pleasure and orgasmic response.
Read Journal EntryPost-Traumatic Sex Disorder
A first-person reflection using the phrase "post-traumatic sex disorder" to explore how painful sexual and relational experiences can continue to shape sexuality long after the original experiences have ended.
Read Journal EntryMeditation, Mindfulness and Orgasm
A personal exploration of meditation and mindfulness and the role that attention, presence, and internal awareness played in Dr. Mulvehill's evolving understanding of orgasm.
Read Journal EntryFinding Answers to Heal My Orgasm: Marijuana and Orgasm
Dr. Mulvehill reflects on her complicated history with marijuana and the surprising realization that something she once associated with pain might also become part of her exploration of sexual healing and orgasmic change.
Read Journal EntryI Came With My Man
A personal account of experimenting with cannabis in a relationship and discovering new aspects of sexual response, pleasure, orgasm, and female ejaculation.
Read Journal EntryMy Cannabis-Assisted Orgasm Training Journey
Dr. Mulvehill shares the broader story of her cannabis-assisted orgasm training journey and the experiences that contributed to her developing understanding of orgasmic learning.
Read Journal EntryResearch, Advocacy & Policy Resources
Explore resources examining how research on female orgasm difficulty, women's sexual health, and medical cannabis can inform health policy and advocacy.
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Advancing Women's Health Through Science and Policy
Explore how scientific research, clinical evidence, public policy, and advocacy can come together to advance recognition of women's sexual-health conditions and treatment needs.
View ResourceA Policy Framework for Women's Health in Europe: A Model for Medical Cannabis Policy
A policy-focused resource exploring how European medical cannabis frameworks could better recognize women's health conditions and incorporate emerging evidence into decision-making.
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Reading and understanding are important. Many women can use these guides to explore orgasmic learning on their own. Others may benefit from a structured program with guidance, practice, repetition, and support to help them stay the course. Our program combines medical guidance on cannabis selection and dosing with the orgasmic learning practices Dr. Suzanne Mulvehill developed through her own journey of overcoming a 30-year difficulty with orgasm.
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Becoming Orgasmic with Medical Cannabis
Our 12-week science-based program is for women who are ready to actively train their orgasmic response through guided practice, professional support, and medical cannabis, with a care team that includes Dr. Suzanne Mulvehill and Dr. Genester Wilson-King, an OB-GYN and certified medical cannabis physician.
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