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Is it true that if a man could experience a female orgasm

Discussion in 'Tilted Life and Sexuality' started by Strange Famous, Aug 23, 2012.

  1. Alistair Eurotrash

    Location:
    Reading, UK
    Interesting hypothesis, Skip, but it doesn't tell the full picture.

    There is also a biological reason for women to have sex with many partners. We see it in nature, too. The female will mate with as many partners as possible and let the best able sperm fertilise her eggs.

    That old "biological imperative" argument works for the goose just as well as the gander.
     
  2. Joniemack

    Joniemack Beta brainwaves in session

    Location:
    Reading, UK
    Is "best" a requirement? I would think any able sperm reaching the egg at the right moment will do the job. A woman with one able bodied sperm providing partner is just as likely to get pregnant with him as she is to get pregnant by one of multiple partners, providing she's ovulating and her egg is ready to be fertilized. For a woman to get the benefit of the fastest and most motile sperm available by way of intercourse with several different acceptable partners, she would have to have all this activity with the 48 -72 hour period she suspects she is ovulating.

    If promiscuity in men can be attributed to the biological drive to spread their seed to as many women as possible, the same wouldn't necessarily apply to women who have but one egg a month to concern themselves with. There is no benefit to finding the most motile one from a selection of partners in what's a very narrow time window when a single partner, with able sperm but who's been selected by her for attributes far more important than exceedingly quick sperm motility, will suffice.

    If women engage with multiple partners, it's not for procreation purposes though it could contain the purpose of narrowing down a field of acceptable mates towards the goal of finding one to procreate with. Complete with all the attributes necessary to protect her and a child as well as sexual compatibility.
     
    Last edited: Aug 26, 2012
  3. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    There is also, in human evolutionary terms, the concept of the human female's loss of estrous, physiologically speaking, wherein she has more "power" (as it were) to garner from males a stronger and longer-term contribution to procreation than a simple sperm deposit.
     
  4. Alistair Eurotrash

    Location:
    Reading, UK
  5. Joniemack

    Joniemack Beta brainwaves in session

    Location:
    Reading, UK
    I still think the downsides, for a women, outweigh the benefits though may not have early in human history when getting the species up and running and diversified was a more important factor than it is today.

    Are biological imperatives still running the show despite the evolutionary change in our circumstances? Are modern men truly driven to promiscuity based solely on an unconscious call to spread their genetic material? Evidently, hormones in both men and women operate the same way they did tens of thousands of years ago, so maybe our sexual activity and choices are still dominated by the same ancient, biological bus drivers . I don't know.