Tuesday, May 17, 2005

"Don't Be Alarmed, Biff. Mommy and Daddy Are Just Testing a Theory. Go Back to Bed"

"Among the theories that Dr. Lloyd addresses in her book is one proposed in 1993, by Dr. R. Robin Baker and Dr. Mark A. Bellis, at Manchester University in England. In two papers published in the journal Animal Behaviour, they argued that female orgasm was a way of manipulating the retention of sperm by creating suction in the uterus. When a woman has an orgasm from one minute before the man ejaculates to 45 minutes after, she retains more sperm, they said.

Furthermore, they asserted, when a woman has intercourse with a man other than her regular sexual partner, she is more likely to have an orgasm in that prime time span and thus retain more sperm, presumably making conception more likely. They postulated that women seek other partners in an effort to obtain better genes for their offspring.

Dr. Lloyd said the Baker-Bellis argument was 'fatally flawed because their sample size is too small.'"


Why is it that every time a discussion of the female orgasm comes up, someone mentions my fatally flawed sample size?

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