Brain & Behavior
A Woman's History of Vaginal Orgasm is Discernible from Her Walk:
In the sample of healthy young Belgian women (half of whom were vaginally orgasmic), history of vaginal orgasm (triggered solely by penile-vaginal intercourse) was diagnosable at far better than chance level (81.25% correct, Fisher's Exact Test P < 0.05) by appropriately trained sexologists. Clitoral orgasm history was unrelated to both ratings and to vaginal orgasm history. Exploratory analyses suggest that greater pelvic and vertebral rotation and stride length might be characteristic of the gait of women who have experienced vaginal orgasm (r = 0.51, P < 0.05).
Hm. Remember when I said "science" was normative???
H/T FuturePundit
Comments
Dammit, that's arthritic midgets crossed off my list of potentials.
Posted by: Todd Unctious | September 5, 2008 4:46 AM
the term is "little person." interrogate your height privilege!
Posted by: razib | September 5, 2008 4:51 AM
Who is this Bar Rafaeli person you've taken to illustrating every other post with?
Posted by: chris y | September 5, 2008 5:47 AM
But which way is the causation?
Is it that their hips are constructed differently, making vaginal orgasm more likely, or that having a vaginal orgasm makes them walk differently?
the images I'm getting in my head are disturbing and arousing in equal measure (full disclosure: there's a belgian girl I've had something of a crush on since I was 15)
Posted by: wazza | September 5, 2008 6:44 AM
So, if it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it probably is a duck?
Personally I find myself saying "duck? that's a seagull" far too often. Blows to the head follow. I've always said duckarsing is better than no arse at all, now I'm thinking maybe it's better than no duck!
Seriously though, it would be interesting to see what effect childbirth has. Does it strengthen the strut, or kill the golden gooseberry?
Posted by: Letraix | September 5, 2008 9:32 AM
At last, someone found a way to make orgasms ponderous!
Posted by: cc | September 5, 2008 10:19 AM
Bar Rafaeli is an Israeli model.
Posted by: Amit | September 5, 2008 10:21 AM
wazza: Unless there are structural changes to the gait of teenagers caused by puberty, it seems much more likely that the ability to orgasm results from a particular type of pelvic structure(s) not the other way around.
Posted by: Levi | September 5, 2008 1:00 PM
Who is this Bar Rafaeli person you've taken to illustrating every other post with?
are you complaining?
Posted by: razib | September 5, 2008 1:14 PM
Stuart Brody has like a million of these papers in which he gets very combative about the vaginal orgasm:
Penile - vaginal intercourse is better: evidence trumps ideology
THE CLITORAL IDEOLOGY MUST BE VANQUISHED.
Posted by: Jason Malloy | September 5, 2008 1:20 PM
"appropriately trained"? Does that mean what I think? Yep... there were FOUR raters... two trained, and two assistants. I bet the assistants didn't do so well.. but was this because they were "not trained"? Or because of random chance? So... what is the probability that 2 of four raters would get 80% or better?
As a seperate issue... from table 2 we appear to have 8 women... 6 self-report as VO+ and 2 self-report as VO- if the sexologists have a fairly intuitive sense of the proportion of women who are VO+ vs VO-, then their "random choices" aren't likely to be 50% for VO+ and 50% for VO-... which would further skew the likelihood of them getting an 80% or better... Hmmm....
Posted by: peter | September 5, 2008 1:55 PM
*doh* I should read more carefully...
Posted by: peter | September 5, 2008 2:32 PM
models walk with hips forward, shoulders dropped and a steady gaze - how orgasmic is that?
Posted by: Lorna | June 30, 2009 5:59 PM
Jesus Christ! Don't believe anything this Brody guy says. He claims to have proven that clitoral orgasm causes mental illnesses (even clitoral stimulation not leading to orgasm before a "healthy" vaginal orgasm detracts from the health benefits of vaginal orgasm)and that you can't have HIV from penile -vaginal penetration! Oh, and that condom use causes mental illnesses and that the younger a woman starts having penetrative sex, the better she can handle sex later in life and that fore-play doesn't help women have orgasms...
See the pattern?
Posted by: Laura | August 14, 2009 12:05 PM