The researchers concluded that female orgasm wasn’t a by-product of male orgasmic capacity or a means of reinforcing the pair bond, as suggested by Desmond Morris. Instead evidence suggested that, amongst humans, orgasm is more likely a cryptic means of selecting a high-quality sire for a woman’s egg. They propose that, just like those socially monogamous fairy wrens and hooded warblers from chapter three, ancestral human females may have pursued a mixed reproductive strategy, choosing partners based on investment potential and then sneaking off during ovulation to have orgasmic sex with
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