Book description
Why women evolved to have orgasms--when most of their primate relatives don't--is a persistent mystery among evolutionary biologists. In pursuing this mystery, Elisabeth Lloyd arrives at another: How could anything as inadequate as the evolutionary explanations of the female orgasm have passed muster as science? A judicious and revealing lookā¦
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In her compelling book, Elisabeth Lloyd examines whether or not the female orgasm is an evolutionary adaptation resulting from the process of natural selection, or rather an evolutional by-product ā like male nipples.
Ms. Lloyd examines twenty-one theories that seek to promote the female orgasm as an adaptationĀ ā from the role of orgasm in helping to facilitate the pair-bonding process to upsucking and sperm-competitionĀ ā and finds each and every one of them lacking.
As a sex therapist I receive emails daily from women who are unable to achieve orgasm via intercourse and wonder, "What can I do toā¦
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