--- Mike Ferro <fagiolaio at comcast.net> wrote:
> "But in a new book, Dr. Elisabeth A. Lloyd, a
> philosopher of science
> and professor of biology at Indiana University,
> takes on 20 leading
> theories and finds them wanting. The female orgasm,
> she argues in the
> book, "The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the
> Science of
> Evolution," has no evolutionary function at all."
>
> This kind of thing just makes Prof. Liz Lloyd look
> bad. Could be that
> her personal orgasmic potential has not evolved.
>
> Mike
A bad joke, Mike, the female orgasm is it is in fact a long-standinbg sociobiological puzzle and I don't knwo any good theories of it. But just because something doesn' have an evolutionary function doesn't mean that it isn't real or even valuable. Gould and other anti- Panglossian adaptationists have a term called "spandrels," derived from something architectural that is nonstructural, to refer to traits that are inherited but not adaptive. Could be the female orgasm is one.
If you are going to get personal, my own experience is that if a woman is regularly nonorgasmic, it's normally the guy's fault. Saw poll where some ridiculous proportion of men don't even know what the clitoris is, much less where to find it or what to do with it. Anda lot of guys think that their dick is the only sexual organ they have and if they come, the deal has been a success. And lots of guys have to ask if the girl came, which means she didn't or they weren't paying attention, don't know which is worse. I can find the figures on this, just not right now.
jks
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