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Female orgasm is a controversial mystery only because the adaptive significance is in some ways complicated. Although female orgasm is different from male ejaculation (semen ejection from the body), there is no doubt that the two are connected. The significance of male ejaculation is clear (which also includes orgasm)– semen joined with egg will result in fertilization. In the case of women, not all experience orgasm, which is part of the controversial mystery. However, it is considered that the conundrum of the female orgasm is why some do climax, as opposed to why some do not – only about 20 percent of women are consistently orgasmic during vaginal intercourse (The Most Important). Certain significant data shows that female orgasm is not fundamental for reproduction, unlike its male counterpart…”among the many complaints of non-orgasmic women, inability to conceive is not one” (The Evolution).
For generations it was claimed that a female orgasm had some sort of a connection with a woman becoming pregnant - it can be speculated that because the “waves of muscular contraction provide greater access of sperm to egg,” female orgasm may assist the progress of fertilization (The Evolution). However, the issue with that is that most of those contractions head in the wrong direction, to which in opposition it was claimed that during orgasm these contractions produce a “suction effect” of the semen up into the fallopian tubes.
Even if this “suction” hypothesis were an actually valid anomaly, scientists would not regard it a vigorous one. There is no cause and effect between female orgasm and pregnancy, as well as in a theory that orgasm reduces leakage of semen from a female’s reproductive tract (The Evolution). But, this hypothesis ...

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...tion because freshly transferred sperm “cannot penetrate the human egg;” the sperm first must go through capacitation, which is an “anatomic and chemical change” that lasts for about one to four hours (How Women Got). Hence, an orgasmically dictated delay during the sperm’s movement most likely makes fertilization occur more rather than less.
Obviously, there is still a lot of research to be done, but questions encircling the functions of the female orgasm are manageable. A man’s orgasm serves a function, but what about women? Is it an evolutionary byproduct or not? These questions, among many others concerning female orgasm, should be further explored. Although there are several formed hypotheses about female orgasm, and although some of them would seem likely to be, a lot of them are ambiguous and require more research to understand the purpose of female orgasm.

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