Do Female Orgasms Help With Conception? New Study Says No
Climax Benjamin Rondel / Getty Images Another blow to a compelling evolutionary theory. Let me just say this first. Just because it might not have an evolutionary function-or at least one that science can find-doesn't mean it's not important, okay?? Okay. Now for the news. A new study has found no correlation between female orgasms and fertility. This undermines one popular hypothesis for why, evolutionarily, women have orgasms. Women may be more likely to conceive when they orgasm, according to the theory, thus passing on their ability to their offspring. But if frequent orgasmers don't have any more kids than infrequent orgasmers, then it doesn't matter. Sigh. The study is just one in a long history of biologists, psychologists and other scientists seeking to explain the evolutionary origins of female orgasms. Most of the hypotheses people have come up with have been difficult to measure-like, umm, the idea that women's orgasms "upsuck" semen...