Comparing male and female orgasms

Have you ever thought about what an orgasm feels like for the other sex?  This is something I have wondered about probably since the first time I saw a woman moaning her way to orgasm.  In fact over the years I think I've become mildly obssesed with it. This is probably somewhat driven by my lack of any orgasm. Even though I am not transgeneder I would give just about anything to experience a female body for a day.  Any women or men feel the same about wanting to experience the opposite sex?  I wonder if one gender is more interested in the other.  I have always thought female orgasms were far superior to males but lets explore a bit deeper.

I recognize that orgasm is something that can vary greatly not just between genders but also between individuals and even over time within an individual.  For the purpose of this post I'll be speaking about the overall average for men and women.  However I would love to hear about individual experiences in the comments.

To start with lets take a look at some of the common perceptions of male and female orgasms.

Male Orgasms:

• Easy to acheive
• Can be acheived quickly
• Short duration
• Only one per session
• Usually requires a rest period after
• Generally one type

Female orgasm:

• More difficult to achieve
• Takes longer to acheive
• Lasts longer
• Ability to have multiples 
• Intensity varies
• Multiple types (clitoral, vaginal, g-spot, ect)

Based on these perceptions I think even though it maybe more difficult to acheive, the female orgasm is the clear winner for overall pleasure.  Due to my issue I'm a bit biased but the thought of having a 60 second+ long orgasm sounds better than having 10 of the orgasms I used to feel.  Here is a pretty good visualization that seems to show the perceived difference (sorry does not seem to work on mobile browsers).

Even though the perceptions generally seem fairly clear, the engineer in me says back this up with data.  So upon doing some searching I was surprised to come across this article that shows males and feels are not that different when it comes to orgasm.  I found the method of measurement interesting with only muscle contractions being measured.  I think the conclusion you could draw from this is the physical aspects of orgasm are very similar between men and woman.  However I don't think it at all suggests the experience is the same.  Certainly a big part of the feelings deals with the chemicals released in the brain.  I was also very interested in the comments from several transgender people.  They all seemed to agree that even before any physical surgeries their perception of orgasm changed just by hormone therapy.  I think future studies that could include transgender individuals before and after would be very interesting.

So digging a bit deeper I came across another study that looks at brian waves.  This one suggests that the female orgasm is 10 times more powerful than the male orgasm.  They go as far to say playing back the brian waves of a female orgasm in a male brian could be such a shock it could kill him.  However they don't give any source or reasoning behind this. Without any details of the study I tend to question the results.  I wish a more thorough study of this sort was available.

So in conclusion there seems to be a few minor studies in the area of orgasm comparison, but much more research is needed.  For now I will keep my opinion that female orgasms are more pleasurable and I'll continue to obsess over them.  What do you think?