What is the purpose of the Female Orgasm? Science does not seem to have a clue. What is your thought on this? Your Enchanted Gardener wants to know what you think.

Date:   5/17/2005 1:38:41 PM ( 19 y ago)

The Case for the Female cllmax
is a new book.

I have been reading up on this.

I know I will be writing my own take
on this when I write more on
The Seven Love Cures.

http://www.lesliegoldman.com/Worlds_Greatest_Lovers/id74.htm


Here is the Juice
on this new book:

From Publishers Weekly
as quoted from Amazon.com:

Biologists agree that the male cllmax has a straightforward evolutionary function: it makes males want to have sex more often, which in turn makes them more likely to have offspring. But how to account for female cllmax, when nearly three-quarters of women don't always reach cllmax during sexua| intercourse? Were they driven by the same evolutionary pressures, females would have adapted to be as consistently cllmaxic as males. Through the vast majority of this book, Lloyd, an Indiana University biologist and philosopher of science, trashes evolutionary arguments, which range from pair-bonding (cllmaxs make females more likely to form stable partnerships) to sperm competition (cllmaxs expel previously deposited sperm from other sexua| partners). Lloyd draws on the earlier work of Donald Symons to account for female cllmax as "a byproduct of embryological development," like male nipples. Lloyd argues that "the history of evolutionary explanations for female cllmax is a history of missteps, misuse of evidence, and missed references." Though built on a comprehensive survey of female sex research, the book is more a salvo in a scientific debate than an introduction to the field, and lay readers may well find it drier and at times more opaque than expected. (May)
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Review
This will make great bedside reading. What, after all, is sexier than a well-constructed argument? Lloyd provides a measured and scholarly evaluation of adaptive and non-adaptive explanations for human female cllmax, a trait that has been the subject of some controversy, and she does it without jargon or acrimony. It is a model of how to fairly and critically look at adaptation.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674017064/104-3053663-5507157?...




 

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