with regard to the ease or difficulty of achieving orgasm, hite's research (while subject to methodological limitations) showed that most women need clitoral (exterior) stimulation for orgasm, which can be "easy and strong, given the right stimulation" and that the need for clitoral stimulation in addition to knowing one's own body is the reason that most women reach orgasm more easily by masturbation. replicating kinsey's findings, studies by scholars such as peplau, fingerhut and beals (2004) and diamond (2006) indicate that lesbians have orgasms more often and more easily in sexual interactions than heterosexual women do.