Evolutionary functions of an orgasm...Achieving orgasm, brain imaging studies show, involves more than heightened arousal. It requires a release of inhibitions engineered by a shutdown of the brain’s center of vigilance in both sexes and a widespread neural power failure in females. When a woman reached orgasm, something unexpected happened: much of her brain went silent.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... asmic-mind
Although theories have been put forward to try and explain the “evolutionary” purpose of these electrochemical reactions during sexual encounters orgasms still remain something of a phenomenon. According to evolutionary biologists orgasms evolved to encourage physical intimacy and intercourse and thus keep the species reproducing, but if orgasms are an evolutionary mechanism why do some female fish expel their eggs and leave the male to fertilize them without any intimacy? Where is the incentive for a fish?
Desmond Morris and his book the naked ape suggests that the female orgasm evolved to encourage physical intimacy between male and females in order to reinforce bonding.
Spoken like a true ape there Desmond...Morris suggested that the relative difficulty in achieving female orgasm, in comparison to the male's, might be favorable in Darwinian evolution by leading the female to select mates who bear qualities like patience, care, imagination, intelligence, as opposed to qualities like size and aggression, which pertain to mate selection in other primates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgasm#Evo ... of_orgasms
Despite all the attempts to explain orgasms as an evolutionary function involving various bodily actions and processes such as aiding fertilization etc... no one has been able to explain why we experience these intense electrochemical storms that generate widespread neural blackouts in the guise of what can only be described as short-circuiting pleasure.
Any thoughts
JJ
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