Rumours: Female Orgasm

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August 25, 2011

01:35

Note: Adult content

An orgasm is pretty much the most awesome feeling on the planet - a toe-curling, jaw dropping, heaven of an experience. But, one out of three females struggle to achieve this little nirvana. Which may not be a surprise, because, after all, there isn't much point for a girl getting off.

The male orgasm is necessary for fertilization and reproduction. The female orgasm doesn't seem to have an obvious biological purpose. But, evolution doesn't occur just for kicks, every evolutionary step has selective pressures acting on it. And this is where researchers are stumped...what is the evolutionary purpose of the female orgasm?

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YOUR COMMENTS

gimmeabreak on May 27, 2010

Here's a shout out to evolution... gimme a break. Ever think that GOD might have had something to do with it? Science fails to explain when God explains everything.

Ugimmeabreak on May 27, 2010

LOL you cant be serious with your god thing, you'r trolling right?

cjeam on May 27, 2010

Does my comment really have to go below the dumbass one? I mean, honestly.

Woop for orgasms! You go evolution!!

sureIllbite on May 27, 2010

No. I don't think god has anything to do with it. Science is the search for answers, not answering EVERYTHING with "god did it". god not capitalized on purpose. Why are you even on a science site anyways?

magnum on May 27, 2010

Well, do you know that boos can crash beer cans?

Source: http://j.mp/boob-crusher

Now that's science.

orgasmin on May 27, 2010

Is that why all my ex-girlfriends call me saying they love me every time they are in need?.. huh....

searchforknowledge on July 05, 2010

so let me get this straight if you believe in science you can't believe in God i would say that's pretty narrow minded. Just because God created something doesn't mean can not figure out what makes it tick. We are creating many different things from the resources that we were given. Some of these things harm us and a lot of them help us I think that is science and with out it where would we be?

Notagod on August 09, 2010

With all the evidence against It, if you have a god you're not doing it right. If god would have wanted females to orgasm It would have said so in the bibel.

Forget the god(s), do the science, its the only way to find the answers.

JustaGirl on November 05, 2010

Its pretty simple if you think about it. Women have orgasms because it enourages them to have sex. It ensures future offspring. Its the principal of behaviorism. If you are rewarded for certain behaviors, you are more likely to do them. You do not have to be rewarded every time, but you will continue to have sex in persuit of the reward.

M Thomas Harding on February 01, 2011

I didn't realize that last question was still up in the air. Incentive seems like a pretty good explanation to me.

And gotta laugh at Mr./Mrs. God-of-the-gaps there. Science has not uncovered everything about the natural world, but it's a bad idea to attribute every remaining mystery to God. You'll end up with egg on your face every time we solve one.

Mort_Q on February 01, 2011

There doesn't "need" to be a reason for the female orgasm... it just doesn't need to be selected against.

Chris Buzon on February 01, 2011

*so not true* - LOL

Though I am all for asking "Why?" - the really important question is "Why NOT?" (especially for the 1/3 who have a tough time getting there).

mr winky on February 06, 2011

you mean a women has one also ? news to me .oh i think god is a E.T.

umm on December 12, 2011

Women and men both orgasm purely for the satisfaction of the sexual experience. If sex isn't pleasurable for both parties, why should we reproduce? If it is a pleasurable experience, we will go back for more. We get horny, we have sex, it feels good... then comes pregnancy and thus, offspring... more sex, more offspring!

Torah Kachur December 21, 2011

Mort_Q - Good point, the female orgasm could also just be an artifact of sharing similar neural networks to men. After all, the penis is anatomically just an enlarged clitoris.

Mac on December 24, 2011

There is no more evidence for evolution than for a supernatural creator. There is evidence against the evolutionary theories that have been developed and NO evidence against a supernatural creator. This does not mean that no one will ever come up with an evolutionary theory that at the least has no evidence against it.
Cosmic evolution requires that the entire universe ("everything") be self-existent or self-created from nothing, from the primordial speck of no dimensions: a geometric point. Everything that is has to be as it is because it is inherent in the God speck.
It takes less faith to believe in a preexistent God, a creator, than in any of the theories of evolution that have been developed so far.

Torah Kachur December 25, 2011

@Mac - not sure what that comment has to do with the Female Orgasm. Except most women at least appear to believe in god during an orgasm, as measured by the frequent "Oh God's".....

On a more serious note, the evidence for evolution is enough to fill books, libraries, large shopping malls..... so what exactly is your evidence against evolutionary theory?

Michael Patrick on January 20, 2012

The vaginal contractions do actual assist in moving the sperm along to its intended target, the eggs. The contractions are actually preformed in a wave like motion assisting with the progression of the sperm.
G spot: no evidence to support it. Period.

MP at redtaillight

Michael Patrick on January 20, 2012

So you are almost on target with your comments.
A little clarity
The bonded pairs are bonded with Oxytocin. Correct, But the release of this oxytocin is continually released throughout the entire sexual experience for the woman. For men, it is released at the time of his ejaculation. Hence, you are partially correct. Oxytocin is released during the entire experience including and during her orgasm.

The retention of the relationship for the bonding pair is for two to three years as it is related to the oxytocin.

However, the long-term bonded pair relationship is tied to vasopressin not oxytocin.

The oxytocin is believed to be needed to keep the man committed to the mate for the critical time of child development when the mom needs the assistance, typically the first 2 to 3 years of the new child's life. After that time the oxytocin levels drop off greatly in the man as it related to this particular mate.

MP at redtaillight

James on March 16, 2012

The point is that if it feels good girls will be more likely have sex and pass on their orgasm genes to a next generation. Or it is just that if you get the orgasm genes it may be not that you have selection pressure to keep these genes running. But rather that there is no selection pressure not to have it.

James on March 16, 2012

This discussion, and hence my latter answer, are the same as why do men have nipples?

Ken on April 29, 2012

So where's the video of the girl riding the geyser!