Researcher wants to unravel the origins of female orgasm

Female orgasm continues to be the subject of many questions and even considered by many to be a mystery. There are thousands of women who have not yet “climaxed”, whether with a partner, a partner or alone, and some say that a large portion of the female population will never have an orgasm in life.

That the questions, curiosities, and mysteries are many, no one questions, but there are evolutionary biologists who are more concerned with the "why" than the "how." For the first time, evidence was found that female orgasm is an adaptation of a mechanism already observed in other animals in which sex serves as a stimulus for ovulation.

The Complexity of Orgasm

Complex, orgasm involves a set of neurological triggers, which makes the process of "evolution" difficult as we know it, and it is even responsible for a process of "natural selection." Who has orgasms is more likely to have healthy children, explains science. Although women do not necessarily need an orgasm for conception, reaching it more often can encourage sex, increasing the chances of having children.

Interested in knowing the deep origins of female orgasm, Dr. Mihaela Pavlicev of the University of Cincinnati, I deeply understand the impact it has on reproductive efficiency. She explains that some animals maximize reproductive efficiency by expecting sex to ovulate, a kind of "trigger". Rabbits are one of those species that do not want to "waste biological effort" and they have a legendary breeding ability.

Photo: Pixabay

Orgasm in women and other mammals may have common origin

Pavlicev then studied the influence of inhibitors by treating rabbits with fluoxetine, a known selective serotonin receptor inhibitor known to interfere with human orgasm.

Rabbits participating in the researcher's study were 30% less likely to ovulate after copulation when treated with fluoxetine. Further tests also showed that the drug affected the central nervous system and not directly the ovaries. The researcher concluded that sex stimulates orgasms in women and ovulation and rabbits via similar neuroendocrine pathways. Thus, orgasm in both is very likely to have a common origin.

Pavlicev had already developed an earlier study and concluded that the first eutherian mammals ovulated only from sex. In addition, the study suggested that while many close relatives of humans do not have female orgasms, ovulation stimulation is through sexual pleasure.

The doctor's current research still leaves many doubts, and one that has long hovered: why is orgasm so easy for some women and difficult for others? The answer has not yet come, but surely further studies will be developed to solve this "mystery."