[PatrickHenry]

Now please, gentlemen ... this is a serious article from Nature, a highly-respected, peer-reviewed science journal. Behave yourselves accordingly.

[PatrickHenry]

EvolutionPing

A pro-evolution science list with over 280 names. See the list's description at my freeper homepage. Then FReepmail to be added or dropped.

[Arkie2]

"It's a taboo subject,"

LOL! There's been nothing taboo about the female orgasm for the last 20 years! It's all some women even discuss and it's been on Broadway for pete's sake.

[bd476]

Interesting that this was published after Mother's Day but before Father's Day. Wonder which parent passes along the "best" genes.

[nmh]

Can it get anymore ridiculous than this?

So laughable!

I now click on evolution threads expecting humor.

[dread78645]

A woman's genetic make-up accounts for at least a third of her ability to climax during sex, say researchers, and may even account for as much as 60%.

Well, there goes my W & W theory.

Wine and Barry White ...

[Pharmboy]

Good...yet ANOTHER thing Stephen Jay Gould was wrong about.

[gobucks]

Medications for male erectile problems, such as Pfizer's Viagra (sildenafil citrate), have already given men more options, says London-based relationship therapist Ruth Mitchell.

Folks, look no further than this sentence. It simply fails to discuss how looking at the gene's of men brought about Viagra - oh, wait a minute. Maybe that is because Viagra was discovered outside of genetic factors! So, this article, and research, has one motive: promoting EVOLUTION, using sex as bait.

I bet the authors spent a lot of time in the magazine asiles looking at Hot Rod magazine, and noting the cars always had a pretty girl w/ them. I can see the cover of Hot Evolution now!!

[Veto!]

"It's a taboo subject," explains Tim Spector, who directs the Twin Research Unit at St Thomas' Hospital, London, and co-authored the report.

Proving once again that the old saying, "No sex please, we're British" is still true.

[Larry Lucido]

Some jeans have the same effect on me.

[anniegetyourgun]

Thanks Mom & Dad.....

[SC Swamp Fox]

So what function does the female orgasm serve?

Who cares? </Sam Kinison>

[AQGeiger]

An interesting hypothesis. I visited PubMed in order to find the paper this article discusses, and got no matches, so the paper is likely still waiting to be printed. However, that means we may not see the exact methods employed by the researchers. Seeing as the achievement of the subject of the article includes many factors that are poorly accounted for (such as mood and the level of happiness with one's partner, whether the study subjects are married or unmarried, et cetera), methodology is a concern.

[OldEagle]

"Genes drive ability to orgasm:"

I realize I might be behind the curve, but is orgasm a verb?

[Adder]

Well, thank gawd, its not my fault!

:]

[Rightly Biased]

I always told her it wasn't my fault.


But should I tell her its her parents fault?

Sounds like a bad counseling session.

[OldEagle]

"Mitchell cautions that many factors besides biology affect the ability to orgasm."

My friend ay the University of New Jersey, who studies such things claims that the intensity of a person's orgasms is related to the way a person sneezes. As we all know a sneeze can vary from an imperceptable grunt to a an uncontrollable AH CA CHOOO!!

Personally, he doesn't think it is genetics.

[eastforker]

The article mentioned twin peaks, hehehe.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I imagine it depends on how a man looks in his jeans and whether or not he makes love to the woman in his jeans. You can tell I got the audio version of this story.

[exDemMom]

Women do not need to climax in order to conceive and give birth, a fact that makes the evolutionary cause of their orgasm slightly mysterious.

I don't think it's all that mysterious. Early in development, the equipment is the same. It's the early exposure to testosterone that causes the male fetus to differentiate as a male; the "default" pathway leads to a female. There is a genetic syndrome where an XY person lacks the androgen receptors and is an infertile female. Since the equipment starts out the same, I expect the nerves and brain connections to be similar, too.

[js1138]

Beyond Seven minute placemarker.