Why are women FAKING THE BIG O?

It seems many women are spending their lives pretending to be satisfied between the sheets

In Dame Emma Thompson’s sensational new film, Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, she plays a widow and former teacher called Nancy who's spent her whole life feeling unsatisfied with sex.

Her character finally reaches a climax at the age of 55, and Emma has revealed her shock at discovering that 15% of women have never had an orgasm. Ever.

And according to the International Academy of Sex Research, while 95% of men usually or always orgasm during sex, only 65% of women are hitting the pinnacle of pleasure.

Emma said recently: ‘Nobody cares about women’s pleasure. Men’s pleasure has always been made more important… a lot of men think if you just twiddle the clitoris, women go off like Catherine wheels.’

So how many of us are hiding our true desires? Woman speaks to one lady whose shock discovery unlocked the sex life she had been yearning for…

‘I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT I WAS MISSING’

Vanessa Moss, 46, lives in Derbyshire and is a mum to six children

When I met Ben in 2005, he swept me offmy feet. I’d been through a traumatic time after losing my five-yearold son, Tom, to cancer a year earlier, and my previous relationship had broken down as a result. I wasn’t in a good place, but being with Ben helped me to focus on the future instead of dwelling on what could have been.