The Female Orgasm: Why Bother?
July / August, 2009
woman who has never come In ' her life can still become great with child, so it's clearly not required to keep us around. Why then has female climax survived? Choose your favorite hypothesis:(1) Orgasm is designed to encourage a woman to copulate despite her better Judgment, given that she might get knocked up and spend nine months—and a lifetime—largely incapacitated. However, evolutionary biologist David Barash and clinical psychiatrist Judith Eve Upton, co-authors of How Women Got Their Cur...