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From: HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu (Hans C. Masing)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Evolution & female orgasm
Message-ID: <91044.132839HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 13 Feb 91 18:28:39 GMT
References: <1178@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
Organization: Penn State University
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In article <1178@ai.cs.utexas.edu>, throop@cs.utexas.edu (David Throop) says:
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>     Has women's sexual responsiveness changed since prehistoric times?
>Have our sexual practices?
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>    But it seems really odd to think that women would have evolved a
>physiological capacity for orgasm, but have evolved it in such a way
>that it couldn't be triggered (except rarely) by practices that didn't
>arise until the advent of civilization.
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>     Could most prehistoric women come to orgasm from penetration alone?
>If so, why can so few modern women?  If not, did prehistoric people
>augment penetration in a manner similar to our modern practices?  And if
>prehistoric women mostly didn't have orgasm when mating, why did the
>capacity for female orgasm evolve?
>
>David Throop
>
>

Studies have shown (and video tapes have been made) of female chimpanzees
achieving orgasm through masturbatory techniques.  It seems that if we did
evolve from the apes, that the ability to orgasm for women evelved along
with them.   Personally, I think that it's a scam so that they get 'extras'
in bed!!!  :-)  (Really, that was a joke meant in all caring and that)

Hans 'I'm gonna either get flamed or get alot of dates for that' Masing