Why women evolved to have orgasms--when most of their primate
relatives don't--is a persistent mystery among evolutionary
biologists. In pursuing this mystery, Elisabeth Lloyd arrives at
another: How could anything as inadequate as the evolutionary
explanations of the female orgasm have passed muster as science? A
judicious and revealing look at all twenty evolutionary accounts of
the trait of human female orgasm, Lloyd's book is at the same time
a case study of how certain biases steer science astray.
Over the past fifteen years, the effect of sexist or
male-centered approaches to science has been hotly debated. Drawing
especially on data from nonhuman primates and human sexology over
eighty years, Lloyd shows what damage such bias does in the study
of female orgasm. She also exposes a second pernicious form of bias
that permeates the literature on female orgasms: a bias toward
adaptationism. Here Lloyd's critique comes alive, demonstrating how
most of the evolutionary accounts either are in conflict with, or
lack, certain types of evidence necessary to make their cases--how
they simply assume that female orgasm must exist because it helped
females in the past reproduce. As she weighs the evidence, Lloyd
takes on nearly everyone who has written on the subject:
evolutionists, animal behaviorists, and feminists alike. Her
clearly and cogently written book is at once a convincing case
study of bias in science and a sweeping summary and analysis of
what is known about the evolution of the intriguing trait of female
orgasm.
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