In the last weeks of January, the last chapter of the moralization of sex was lived in Pamplona. The Mayor banned the talk about the “orgasm gap” organized by the Equality Area of the City Hall in the House of Women. As a result, about 400 people approached Katakrak to learn what was behind those keywords, the place where the conference finally took place.

It is a concept that names what happens in heterosexual sex and has become a tool for the development of thought. As Paola Damonti commented in her speech, one in five women lives collectively and that is that one in five does not experience orgasm when having sex with men.

Although to get to know all the details you have to listen to a full speech, I want to bring to the debate one of those who caught my attention: the weight of “guilt” in the construction of the identity of women. This explains that many times women seem to have had an orgasm, for example. Or if you don't have heterosexual intercourse (talks focused exclusively on them), don't interrupt it. Although it is usually said to be a personal issue, a more structured look and the use of the concept gives us a different perspective.

Behind the orgasist gap is gender inequality, as occurs in the economy. And looking from a structural point of view allows us to problematize the situation, as any other point of view, and especially non-emancipatory discourses aimed at women (especially those who say the absence of orgasms is an individual responsibility), only serve to deepen the gap. Welcome the debate on the orgasm gap!