{"id":3566,"date":"2013-01-13T20:17:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T19:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2013-01-13T20:17:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T19:17:35","slug":"paper-why-women-have-orgasms-an-evolutionary-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2013\/01\/paper-why-women-have-orgasms-an-evolutionary-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper: Why Women Have Orgasms: An Evolutionary Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Why-Women-Have-Orgasms-An-Evolutionary-Analysis.1007_s10508-012-9967-x.pdf\">Why Women Have Orgasms An Evolutionary Analysis.1007_s10508-012-9967-x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>apparently, female human orgasms are useful after all.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Abstract Whether women\u2019s orgasmis an adaptation is argu-<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">ably the most contentious questioninthestudyoftheevolution<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">of human sexuality. Indeed, this question is a veritable litmus<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">test for adaptationism, separating those profoundly impressed<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">with the pervasive andmyriad correspondences between organ-<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">isms\u2019 phenotypes and their conditions of life from those who<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">apply the \u2018\u2018onerous concept\u2019\u2019 of adaptation with more caution,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">skepticismor suspicion. Yet, the adaptedness of female orgasm<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">is a question whose answer will elucidate mating dynamics in<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">humans and nonhuman primates. There are two broad compet-<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">ing explanations for the evolution of orgasm in women: (1) the<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">mate-choice hypothesis, which states that female orgasm has<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">evolved to function in mate selection and (2) the byproduct<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">hypothesis,which states that female orgasmhas no evolutionary<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">function, existing only becausewomen share some early ontog-<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">eny with men, in whom orgasm is an adaptation. We review<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">evidence for these hypotheses and identify areaswhere relevant<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">evidence is lacking.Although additional research is needed<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">before \ufb01rm conclusions can be drawn, we \ufb01nd that the mate-<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">choice hypothesis receives more support. Speci\ufb01cally, female<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">orgasm appears to have evolved to increase the probability of<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">fertilization from males whose genes would improve offspring<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">\ufb01tness.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Women Have Orgasms An Evolutionary Analysis.1007_s10508-012-9967-x apparently, female human orgasms are useful after all. Abstract Whether women\u2019s orgasmis an adaptation is argu- ably the most contentious questioninthestudyoftheevolution of human sexuality. Indeed, this question is a veritable litmus test for adaptationism, separating those profoundly impressed with the pervasive andmyriad correspondences between organ- isms\u2019 phenotypes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1746,1624],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolutionary-biology","category-evolutionary-psychology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3568,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions\/3568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}