Why Does The Female Orgasm Exist? - Dr Robert King - #977

How do you get into studying the female orgasm? Um, let's just gonna go to dive straight in. Um, okay, so my background was I was a school teacher for 20 years. Um, and I uh was interested in psychology and maths, that's what I taught. About 20 years ago I came across a really interesting book by a woman called Elizabeth Lloyd.

Uh it was uh uh bias in the science of of evolution. I was on holiday in Thailand. Uh I read it. Um the book told me that female orgasm did nothing, uh, had no function, and uh to say I was I was surprised would be uh an understatement and uh I I just I got interested and I started studying evolutionary biology and I approached uh some prominent figures in the field and said, I think I have an eye you seem to have an issue here.

uh studying this subject, I think, um, and it it it I'm you know, it just sort of I I i I oh yeah, I'm I'm obviously quite a a nerdy kind of character. I I delve into these things, I read the original stuff, and once I started reading the original stuff, it became obvious that there were two very distinct traditions of of studying um human sexuality, particularly female orgasm. One of them uh went down this this strange route of saying it did nothing and another one which had been somewhat uh sidelined uh suggested actually had some really interesting functions. What was your what was your intuition? What was it that you thought early on, huh, this this seems to be a fruitful area to research more into?

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