The maladaptive western phenomenon of downplaying female pleasure
Some years back I was introduced to a "book" (I use that term only because the pages were too rough to serve as effective toilet paper) called The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution written by an alleged "feminist", "biologist" and "philosopher" (again, the terms are used very loosely here) named Elizabeth Lloyd in 2005. The central thesis of this "book" is that scientists for the past century (or longer) have given undue weight to the phenomenon of female sexual pleasure and orgasm in particular, enshrining its importance both biologically and culturally, when in fact it deserves neither. To Lloyd, only a crazy, right-wing, anti-feminist misogynist would regard the female orgasm as having any purpose whatsoever, whether evolutionarily adaptive or spiritually liberating. The fact that scientists have proposed various adaptive functions for the female orgasm (from assisting sperm transport to facilitating sl...