The female orgasm has puzzled evolutionary biologists like Yale professor Dr. Günter Wagner for a long time: if it doesn't serve reproductive purpose like the male orgasm — which releases sex cells, ...

As ingenious as humans are, there’s always evolution to put us in our place. Just as we descended from a bag with teeth, the peak of sexual pleasure, the orgasm, has equally visceral evolutionary ...

The female orgasm has been a complex and difficult-to-study and understand phenomenon for centuries. Now researchers have come up with an easier way of studying female orgasms using rabbits. They ...

Researchers used rabbits and antidepressants to search for a link between orgasm and ovulation in female mammals. Image Credit: Aubord Dulac, Shutterstock Share The list of humankind’s scientific ...

A very weak paper in PNAS has attracted some attention lately: An experimental test of the ovulatory homolog model of female orgasm The paper aims to be a test of the hypothesis that the human female ...

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Editor’s Note (10/01/19): This story was updated after publication to include comments from Raúl Paredes, director of the Juriquilla unit at the National Autonomous University of Mexico’s National ...