Human babies require at least two and preferably more adults to take care of them. While we can expect some males to have a sexual strategy in which they don’t provide caregiving and instead rely on e.g. the baby’s grandparents, the mother’s friends, or the mother’s husband who has been deceived into thinking the baby is his, it is probably going to be way more common for human males to provide the caregiving themselves.
Since short-term satiation after orgasm (the ‘refractory period’) is much less of an issue in women, it’s at least reasonable to expect that they might have far less long-term orgasm satiation as well. Which is not to say that loss of relationship energy is not a problem more broadly (the stereotype of “lesbian bed death” indicates as much!), just that we shouldn’t necessarily expect orgasms to be the causal link in that case.
What is the source of the evolutionary pressure? I don’t see the connection.
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Human babies require at least two and preferably more adults to take care of them. While we can expect some males to have a sexual strategy in which they don’t provide caregiving and instead rely on e.g. the baby’s grandparents, the mother’s friends, or the mother’s husband who has been deceived into thinking the baby is his, it is probably going to be way more common for human males to provide the caregiving themselves.
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So, your hypothesis is only about men? Are you proposing that only women should have orgasms?
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Since short-term satiation after orgasm (the ‘refractory period’) is much less of an issue in women, it’s at least reasonable to expect that they might have far less long-term orgasm satiation as well. Which is not to say that loss of relationship energy is not a problem more broadly (the stereotype of “lesbian bed death” indicates as much!), just that we shouldn’t necessarily expect orgasms to be the causal link in that case.