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From: tswift@well.UUCP (Theodore John Swift)
Newsgroups: alt.sex
Subject: Re: Sex, Babies, and Orgasm
Message-ID: <15594@well.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 90 21:49:00 GMT
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>The female orgasm may just be a side-effect of the male orgasm since the male
>of the species develops from the originally female embryo when testosterone
>(have I got the right hormone?) is introduced.

I'm not sure if it's testosterone, but it probably is.  Yes, for the first
good chunk of gestation, the genitalia (or where they will be) are very
similar
in male and female embryo/fetuses; the structures that eventually become the
ovaries or testes eventually get a message to go up and in or down and out,
but there are structures that remain similar (e.g., both the penis and
clitoris become erect when excited, etc.)  So is the female orgasm a "leftover
similarity", or is there more to it than that?  Is there a professional in
the house?
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fellow welloid slf@well.UUCP (Sharon Lynne Fisher) writes:
>>Oh really???  It also seems that the menstrual period seems to make both
>>women and men less receptive.
>Uh, speak for yourself.  I *prefer* sex during my period (well, slightly)
>because there's less chance of pregnancy and because I just tend to be
>hornier then.

someone else wrote:

>From what I understand, the menstrual period has nothing to do with being in
>heat.  That would or would not happen anyway.

From talking with several women, there does seem to be a change in horniness
that relates to menstruation, so I wonder what people here mean when they
write
"in heat", "estrus", etc:  Do you mean "fertile" "horny" or both?  If we mean
fertile, then the period woult have something to do with being in heat.  If
we mean "horny", that seems to depend from woman to woman.
-- 
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