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Though orgasms strongly predict women's sexual satisfaction, many women downplay their importance. To explain this paradox, we drew on System Justification Theory (SJT) to investigate whether and how legitimizing the orgasm gap sustains sexual inequality between women and men across four studies with U.S. participants (\n                    <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u20091967). Study 1 introduced a novel measure of orgasm gap\u2010system justification (OGSJ), showing that stronger justification was associated with lower orgasm centrality and entitlement among women, and higher orgasm entitlement among men. Studies 1 and 2 provided evidence for SJT's palliative function: irregularly\u2010orgasmic women who endorsed OGSJ beliefs reported greater sexual satisfaction despite low orgasm frequency. 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