Lying awake?
In case you've been sleepless over the evolutionary purpose for the female orgasm, it turns out:
Whew! That takes the pressure off. There's more fun stuff in the article about performance expectations and patterns, but you'll have to read it for yourself.
The female orgasm, she said, "is for fun." 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. Rather, Dr. Lloyd says the most convincing theory is one put forward in 1979 by Dr. Donald Symons, an anthropologist. That theory holds that female orgasms are simply artifacts - a byproduct of the parallel development of male and female embryos in the first eight or nine weeks of life.
Whew! That takes the pressure off. There's more fun stuff in the article about performance expectations and patterns, but you'll have to read it for yourself.
posted by fabulous girl at
11:06 PM
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Off topic but absolutely stunning graphic design here.
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Anonymous, at 2:43 PM
We humble fishies thank you...
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The Cynical Idealist, at 3:59 PM
Funny that. It seems that the male's is also! A coincidence? I think not.
What other absolutely stupid studies should we fund?
-c
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camarooned, at 9:51 PM
And don't get me wrong. Males can team up with males, and females with females, or males and females can each fly solo or play in any even or odd numbered combination of themselves to make exploiting this natural quirk that much more fun. I swear we North Americans fill our working weeks so full we are largely blind to the cheapest stress-relieving, humanity-building forms of exercise around.
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camarooned, at 9:55 PM
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