<snip>Studies show that symmetrical men have the shortest
courtships before having sexual intercourse with the women they date.
They invest the least money and time in them. And they cheat on their
mates more often than guys with less well-balanced bodies. So much for
the beleaguered bonding hypothesis, which wants us to believe that
women with investing, caring mates will have the most orgasms.
The women who took part in the study were no saints, either. They
sometimes faked orgasm. Their fakery was not related to male symmetry.
Faking, however, was more common among women who reported flirting with
other men. Clearly earlier theories were not too far off the mark when
they proposed that a man looks for cues of sexual satisfaction from his
mate for reassurance about her fidelity. Faking orgasms might be the
easiest way for the woman with many lovers to avoid the suspicions of
her main partner.
Baker and Bellis found that when women do engage in infidelity, they
retain less sperm from their main partners (their husbands, in many
cases), and more often experience copulatory orgasms during their
trysts, retaining semen from their secret lovers. Taken together, these
findings suggest that female orgasm is less about bonding with nice
guys than about careful, subconscious evaluation of their lovers'
genetic endowment.<snip> Psychology Today; The Orgasm Wars
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