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From: sbishop@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Evolution & female orgasm
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.190312.2398@desire.wright.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 91 00:03:11 GMT
References: <1178@ai.cs.utexas.edu> <1991Jan21.202957.10822@yenta.alb.nm.us> <5420@husc6.harvard.edu>
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In article <5420@husc6.harvard.edu>, burns@sparkle.uucp (John Burns) writes:
> 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."

Actually, in many species, the male licks or nuzzles the female's genitals
to prepare her for mating.  Dogs, cattle, goats, sheep, cats, etc.