[lbo-talk] evolution & the female orgasm: men cleared

[jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net]

> CB: Here's a reply on these. The critical difference  100,000's of thousands
> of years ago would have been between the humans and the precursor-human
> species. The precursors had 0% orgasm from intercourse ( this inference is
> based on modern studies that primates don't have orgasms ; see Yoshie's
> post; otherwise we are discussing how whatever prehuman species in which
> orgasm originated). 

Primates don't have orgasms? Laboratory experiments on stump-tailed 
macaques have shown them capable of physiological orgasms. Studies 
of Bonobos certainly suggests this is true of them as well. Since we can't 
ask them we have to make assumptions but having if having a series of 
contractions of the uterus that intensify until they reach a plateau, along 
with muscular contractions of the vagina, facial contortions and shouting 
can be called orgasm then primates do have them.

John Thornton