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...