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AnSionnachRua  ·  3966 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What do woman want?

Small point with regards to this one line:

    the story of the so-far elusive hunt for a Viagra-type aphrodisiac for women
Viagra and related drugs aren't 'aphrodisiacs' - they don't make you horny, they just make it really easy to get an erection.

I do wonder about how the perpetuation of ideas about monogamy has shaped us. Sometimes I think the whole "free love" thing would be really cool, and I wonder how much of our jealousy and possessiveness is natural and how much cultural. Who knows.

It's also interesting to note that there are far more asexual women than men.

I remember reading a few years ago in Paul Ehrlich's Human Natures (a good read) that there has probably been little evolutionary pressure making women more prone to orgasm, as 'anecdotal evidence' attests. Hehehe.