andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> One sociobiological explanation why women have the
> clitoris placed so that they don't orgasm during
> intercourse is so that they can see if men are
> willing to go out of their way to please them. A man
> who only selfishly wants his own pleasure and
> doesn't care about his partner's is not likely to be
> a very good mate in general for her.
I would think it doubtful that any significant anatomical changes occurred (species wide) since the original emergence of biologically modern humans. Hence the just-so story you tell, if correct at all, would have had to take place within an earler -- probably _much_ earlier -- homo species. {Where is the clitoris of Bonobos located?)
Carrol
P.S. Up until early 19th century (in the west) it was believed that female orgasm was necessary for impregnation. When Mary Therese. Empress of Austria, consulted her physician as to how she could conceive, he recommended that her husband "tickle" her clitoris prior to intercourse. See Thomas Laqueur, _Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud_.