Wyoming women are the most satisfied with their sex lives, according to a newly-published report from Babeland, the sex toy boutique with locations in New York City and Seattle. 

Babeland determined which state’s women were most sexually satisfied through examining a host of different factors, including how often women have sex each week, how they rate their sexual experiences, as well as the number of sex shops per state and the reviews for these adult boutiques. 

Wyoming women were at the top of the stateside pleasure heap, followed by New Hampshire, Maine, Oregon, and Texas in the top five. 

Babeland found that the average Wyoming woman had sex 1.34 times per week and rated their sex life at about a 5.7 which, while not the highest, certainly outpaced states such as New Mexico (2.65) and Virginia (2.90). Their average sexual encounter also lasted over 3 minutes, compared to just 1:48 in Vermont and 1:21 in Alaska. (If you want a longer sex session, you can go to New Mexico, where women said the average sex encounter was over 7 minutes but, hey, look at that average satisfaction score again!) 

Put all together, Babeland gave Wyoming a bedroom satisfaction score of 98.99, compared to the lowest-scoring state, Mississippi, which garnered just a 1.

Bella, an employee at F Street Emporium, an adult sex shop in Casper, Wyoming, was unsure if women in Wyoming experienced pleasure “any more or less than any other state,” but said that, in a turn of conventional wisdom, many of the women who frequent the Emporium have taught her about better sex. 

“I’m telling you,” Bella said, “I’ve learned some tips and tricks from them.” 

She said that wands and roses, a term for clitoral stimulators, are most popular among patrons. “A lot of them just want small ones that can get them on the go,” Bella said. 

Wyoming boasts about 1.91 adult shops per 100,000 people, per Babeland’s report; given that the state has just under 600,000 people, per the latest U.S. census, that means there are about a dozen shops statewide. 

Babeland’s study comes just one year after another sex shop, The Lion’s Den, found that Wyoming residents ranked third in terms of people who think about sex the most. 

Despite its small population, Wyoming residents do come out to the Emporium hoping to get off. “Some days,” Bell said, “ the door’s about ready to fall off the hinges.” 

Speaking on the report, Babeland’s sex and relationship expert Lisa Finn emphasized that no single factor can determine how good a woman’s sex life is.  

“Frequency doesn’t determine satisfaction,” Finn said in a statement accompanying the report. “You can be having sex daily that doesn’t feel satisfying, or only have sex once a month and it’s incredible – what matters is whether or not we are experiencing pleasure during those moments, and if we’re not getting it, that we’re communicating and advocating for it.”  

A large part of Wyoming’s triumph in the overall index was due to its relatively high number of self-pleasure searches (879) per 100,000 women (remember, given the state’s population, that’s about 300,000 people we’re talking about). That means the women of Wyoming are taking sexual pleasure into their own hands at almost double the rate of most other states. 

To that end, Finn said that it’s a positive sign that so many women are searching for masturbation-related tips. 

“That shift toward openness is directly connected to better sex because women who know their own bodies feel more empowered to explore, and can use their knowledge of their bodies and pleasure to communicate their needs and wants to their partners,” she said.

When asked about whether she believed Wyoming women experienced the most bedroom pleasure in the United States, Cheryl Parlette, the owner of Cherries Lingerie, an adult boutique in Casper, Wyoming, said she believed the calculation might be “off key” due to Wyoming’s relatively low state population, but that at her sex store, she sees plenty of satisfied clientele. 

“The women that come in here and buy toys are definitely the happiest women in Wyoming,” Parlette said. 

Parlette said that she teaches every curious woman who walks through her doors — Cherries is located in a mall, across from a Dick’s Sporting Goods — about how to pleasure herself. 

“I highly educate any woman that comes in who doesn’t know what the heck she’s doing,” she said. “I explain to them what their main pleasure zones are, I explain to them which products I have that will take care of that. Or if you just want an all out, have a great time and cum until you can’t see straight, I have that too.” 

Parlette said that it’s important to understand that pleasure differs from woman to woman. 

“You must understand that some women are strictly clits, some are strictly inside, you gotta hit the very tip top of it — there’s no one set thing,” she said. “There just isn’t.”