Erogeneity

Anticlimactic Research

milhayser | September 30, 2011

A new paper published in the journal Animal Behavior tackles the origin of the female orgasm—does it have gender-specific advantages, or is it merely a byproduct of male adaptations? Having polled 10,000 twins about their orgasmic tendencies, researchers found "no significant correlation between opposite-sex twins and siblings" and therefore concluded that "selection pressures on male orgasmic function do not act substantively on female orgasmic function." PZ Myers writes "the logic of this experiment falls apart at every level." He points to the inevitable biases that affect self-…