Where Does The Female Orgasm Come From? Scientists Think They Know

By Shanoor Seervai

It's tempting to listen to women's magazines and believe female orgasms are a small pleasure to make up for periods and pregnancy, what they might call the raw end of Darwin's deal. But a study published Monday shows that as mammals developed from solitary creatures to societal ones, ovulation became more automatic, and both the orgasm and the clitoris lost their reproductive roles.

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