[lbo-talk] New Sex drugs

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com, Sun May 29 09:04:09 PDT 2005:
>Is it possible that female orgasm and male nipples come from the 
>same source, i.e., that males and females are basically the same 
>type of critter but that the extra X chromosome or the substitute Y 
>chromosome triggers various developments that make us differ?

As Stephen Jay Gould put it in his essay "Male Nipples and Clitoral 
Ripples," "Males and females are not separate entities, shaped 
independently by natural selection.  Both sexes are variants upon a 
single ground plan, elaborated in later embryology" (_Bully for 
Brontosaurus_, p. 127).  There is no mystery of female orgasm from 
this structuralist point of view.  The penis and the clitoris are the 
same thing, hard-wired for pleasure.
-- 
Yoshie

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