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From: burns@sparkle.uucp (John Burns)
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Subject: Re: Evolution & female orgasm
Keywords: orgasm, primates, mango
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Date: 22 Jan 91 13:45:58 GMT
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In _The Straight Dope_, Cecil Adams reports that female stump-tailed
macaques have been observed to climax from oral sex with each other (pp.
64-65).  In the second volume, _More of the Straight Dope_, he adds reports
of female chimpanzees masturbating with twigs and mangos, and of a male
gorilla performing oral sex on his mate.  Whatever the origins of female
orgasm, its recreational use predates humanity.

John A. Burns (burns@das.harvard.edu, burns@huche1.bitnet)
"Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it."