Cuming to Consensus
Over at Pharyngula there’s a great discussion centering on the work of Dr. Elisabeth Lloyd, who wrote The Case for the Female Orgasm. I have not read Dr. Lloyd’s book, but I remember when her research was release a few months ago, and remember thinking to myself that some jackass would argue that, based on Lloyd’s assertion that the female orgasm is an evolutionary bi-product, that women aren’t ’suppose’ to achieve orgasm, or that her research is sexist and anti-feminist. It appears that my instincts were correct.
Folks - please just because we are products of evolutionary biology doesn’t mean we have to abide by some Calvinesque predetermination of life. Is the female orgasm an evolutionary bi-product of the male orgasm? Lloyd seems to make the case it is — interesting, but hardly a fact we should focus our sex lives on.
Please checkout Dr. Lloyd’s response to her critics at the Philosophy of Biology Blog
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