What is the evolutionary reason for 10-15% of women being unable to orgasm? Is it a natural selection dead-end or is there a justified advantage to the human species? Or is this issue not evolution-related at all? Let’s explore the possible reasons behind this phenomenon. #evolution #orgasm #femaleanatomy #naturalselection #humanreproduction
Orgasms alert your enemies.
Evolutions entire philosophy is “if it’s half way decent and gets the job done that’s good enough”.
Basically it works well enough for the majority to not warrant evolution to do better.
There’s a lot of factors to consider.
For example, strict purity culture can lead to women developing such high levels of shame and disgust toward sex and their own sexual pleasure that they can’t orgasm.
So can we definitively blame an evolutionary reason for why a certain percentage of women can’t orgasm?
It’s far more likely that social factors are to blame. Lack of education about the female body, the belief that she should be able to orgasm solely through POV. Stress, mental health issues, overworked, purity culture, religion, misogyny, past sexual assault, feeling used, porn, sex being male focused, etc etc etc etc etc.
Evolution chooses the most convenient path to ensure the most likely chance of off spring being able to live and have more offspring. It takes two to tango but only the male orgasm is needed to make babies, some people suggest the female orgasm is a vestigial feature that increases chances of fertilization but you’d have to fact check that
Because evolution doesn’t care. Women don’t have to orgasm to get pregnant, and therefore genes get passed on.
Evolutionarily speaking there’s no reason for women to reach orgasm.
Evolution doesn’t do reason. It’s just randomness half filtered by a bias towards successful reproduction
you can check the “The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature” by Matt Ridley for a somewhat modern take on evolution (that book is already 25 years old, geez. well somebody probably have a more recent one to recommend you. but the point remains: genetics doesn’t have reasons to do anything and doesn’t necessarily works for the benefits of the organisms it evolves)
Not everything has an evolutionary advantage
Evolution doesn’t have reasons. It doesn’t plan. The question should be why are women who can’t orgasm still reproducing. Because they want kids. Or society forces them. Or many other reasons.
Biology is basically a “as long as it works, it’s good enough”. There are many other biological phenomenons that are just weird and quirky
I largely believe this will change soon and quickly, contrary to every other evolutionary trait. Women used to not have the luxury of opinion for centuries. The modern society has changed that hugely, so I believe we will head into a world of better sex overall. 100 years ago arranged marriage was the norm in many places and bad sex was no excuse to break up. Now most people have long relationships before committing to having children. If there’s no sexual chemistry, it’s not uncommon to break up.
Not being able to orgasm from penetrative sex doesn’t mean you can’t orgasm at all.
Never learning how to masturbate doesn’t mean you can’t orgasm either.
I think lack of education is more likely to be the reason than evolution.
It isn’t important for reproduction so women being able to orgasm at all is just luck.
Not every evolutionary thing has to be an advantage.
Not having an orgasm isn’t going to get you killed so if you are one of those women you’re still going to be just as successful at breeding and passing on your non organs having genes as an orgasm having person would be at passing on their orgasm having genes.
Especially when for thousands of years women were married off and the dude wouldn’t have cared if his wife orgasmed or not. Wives were property and the husband would have fucked her whether she wanted it or not.
Evolution isn’t some sentient force of nature. It’s throwing stuff to the wall and seeing what sticks. And apparently, this one sticks well enough.
If it breeds, that’s all it needs
– Evolution, 4.532BC
Evolution is nature’s C student
I’ve always thought that it makes sense that if women can easily orgasm before men do, then there is some likelihood that sex will stop at the point a woman orgasms. This would result in the man then not orgasming and not impregnating them. Women who take longer, and therefore want to carry on having sex in order to achieve orgasm, are probably more likely to then get pregnant as a result. Therefore, it would seem that it is evolutionary advantageous for women to at least take longer to orgasm than men. There will always be extremes across the population and unfortunately it would seem some women can never achieve orgasm at all. Much like others said, the female orgasm is not a requirement for fertilisation, so some women have likely evolved to not orgasm at all.
So they would keep trying?
There’s no evolutionary disadvantage to women who can’t orgasm. They can still reproduce and pass on genes.
10-15%?that seems way too low of a number
The female orgasm has interested evolutionary biologists for decades. One hypothesis is that it is an artefact of the endocrine signalling required to induce ovulation in mammals. When ovulation became automatic, the female orgasm was no longer functionally necessary, but still stuck around. Here is an [important paper](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jez.b.22690?casa_token=A0Wsxu0CwnMAAAAA%3AQlwSZZYLXX0_CeLM79XZYNuLUsKKpYKpjZnGpjKgPUij2Cb9hXNE9oWAVUXuB_ORc0JMJS6CgZWLNxff)[ ](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jez.b.22690?casa_token=A0Wsxu0CwnMAAAAA%3AQlwSZZYLXX0_CeLM79XZYNuLUsKKpYKpjZnGpjKgPUij2Cb9hXNE9oWAVUXuB_ORc0JMJS6CgZWLNxff)on it. Now, given that a female organism is no longer necessary for reproduction, the fact that women do not always experience an orgasm did not weed it out from the population.
Is this even a verified figure? Presumably many of them just haven’t found the right man/woman/hand/toy/mental space to make it happen? Sure there may be some with a “disability” like some people are deaf or blind but seems like something you could never be certain of being unable to ever do.
The reason may be 85-90% of Men ?
Legends say they haven’t found the clit.
> Or is the reason not related to evolution at all?
Men. That’s the reason.
It’s not an evolutionary thing. The women who are “unable” to orgasm should still theoretically be able to reach that point, it’s not like they’re physically incapable of doing so because of the way they and their ancestors evolved.
The causes for orgasmic dysfunction range from physical issues like diabetes, medication, or hormonal issues, to psychological issues like a history of rape, negative feelings about sex due to religion or societal pressures, lack of knowledge, or even shyness.
Evolution just means you can pass on your genes. Women don’t need to orgasm to do that. The fact that we can at all is a blessing.
I feel like we could improve those numbers if we really tried. No need to blame evolution.
This post looks familiar, yeah, women don’t need to orgasm to get pregnant. Men do to impregnate, most of the time through history. Evolution and natural selection isn’t worried if it doesn’t stop them from getting pregnant. But no expert.