Type O
Type O is a font inspired by and made to bring awareness to the issue of the orgasm gap. It is also serves to celebrate female anatomy and female orgasms with it’s forms being inspired by female anantomy, the increased blood flow to the vagina during arousal, and female sexuality. The typeface has two styles built into one font. About 65% of the letters are in a thin form and the other 35% are in a rounded form to visually represent that statistic that only 65% of heterosexual women report usually or always reaching climax.
The term orgasm gap represents how in cishet relationships, there is a considerable difference between the number of orgasms men and women are having. Heterosexual women are the demographic having the least amount of orgasms during sex. Out of a survey of 52,500 adult Americans, 95% of heterosexual men usually or always climax while only 65% of heterosexual women usually or always climax. In another study, only 42% of heterosexual women reported feeling satisfied after sex with their partner, and in another study, 81% of women reported that they did not feel comfortable asking their partner for more orgasm and only 12% feel that an orgasm is an ultimate goal during sex.
Why is there an orgasm gap? I found that there is a lack of understanding of the women’s anatomy by both women and men, which suprised me, and that the study of the female orgasm in science is historically male-dominated. It is also due to effects of the patriarchy, the portrayal of women in films, the amount of unrealisitic porn, and how the narrative for what sex in a heterosexual relationships is supposed to look like is more focused on the man.
Four x Thirty-Four Exhibit poster desinged in collaboration with Belle Anderson and Audrey Davis.
The term orgasm gap represents how in cishet relationships, there is a considerable difference between the number of orgasms men and women are having. Heterosexual women are the demographic having the least amount of orgasms during sex. Out of a survey of 52,500 adult Americans, 95% of heterosexual men usually or always climax while only 65% of heterosexual women usually or always climax. In another study, only 42% of heterosexual women reported feeling satisfied after sex with their partner, and in another study, 81% of women reported that they did not feel comfortable asking their partner for more orgasm and only 12% feel that an orgasm is an ultimate goal during sex.
Why is there an orgasm gap? I found that there is a lack of understanding of the women’s anatomy by both women and men, which suprised me, and that the study of the female orgasm in science is historically male-dominated. It is also due to effects of the patriarchy, the portrayal of women in films, the amount of unrealisitic porn, and how the narrative for what sex in a heterosexual relationships is supposed to look like is more focused on the man.
Four x Thirty-Four Exhibit poster desinged in collaboration with Belle Anderson and Audrey Davis.