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The Perplexing Case of the Female Orgasm
- hartror 16y ago"All in the Mind" is a fantastic show, main site has transcripts and audio from the recent shows as well as podcasts. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/ http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/
- btilly 16y agoThere was one argument that I found amusing, because there is a much more reasonable alternate explanation for it. Roger Short: ... if you look anatomically, it’s very interesting that the human clitoris is really much, much bigger than the clitoris in any other primate, relative to body size. So I think we’ve got to say that female orgasm is alive and well for very good reasons, and it’s not just an evolutionary accident of something that happened in men. Color me unconvinced. The clitoris is the female analog of the male penis. Anatomically humans have penises that are several times larger than one would predict based on comparisons with our near relatives. When you add in all of the dirty jokes, etc, there is fairly clear evidence of sexual selection for large male penises in humans. However the genes that cause that are likely to also cause large female clitorises. Causation could theoretically go the other way - selecting for large clitorises would select for large penises. But evidence from human behavior suggests far more female interest in men with large penises than male interest in women with large clitorises.
- paradoja 16y agoThe clitoris is the female analog of the male penis. However the genes that cause that are likely to also cause large female clitorises. I highly doubt both statements. What does "analog of the male penis" mean, anyway? Do you have anything at all to support them?