What Is the Point of the Female Orgasm?
Climax Quarter the VillainA new study examines "orgasmability" to determine whether it serves a purpose or is just an evolutionary accident There may be few questions of human sexuality more rancorous than those about the female orgasm. Scientists agree that women probably started having orgasms as a by-product of men having them, similar to how men have nipples because women have them. As Elisabeth Lloyd, a philosopher of science and theoretical biologist at Indiana University put it in her 2005 book The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution: "Females get the erectile and nervous tissue necessary for orgasm in virtue of the strong, ongoing selective pressure on males for the sperm delivery system of male orgasm and ejaculation." But why we ladies still have orgasms is hotly debated. Male orgasms exist, it's widely believed, to encourage men to spread their seed. On face...