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5 Post author: NancyLebovitz 13 October 2010 02:07PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 15 October 2010 11:16:05PM 0 points [-]

It's evidence that female orgasm is doing something adaptive (and distinct from what it does in men), even if we don't know what. While it's good to be skeptical of particular ev-psych stories and to acknowledge the cases where we don't yet know the mechanism of causality (e.g. humans' musical sense), the presumption ought to be that complex adaptations rarely arise for no reason.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 16 October 2010 12:47:54AM 0 points [-]

Part of the hypothesis is that variations which give a significant advantage should be close to universal.