What Use Is The Female Orgasm? - David Puts - #559

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hi, friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is David Puts. He's a professor of anthropology at Penn State whose research focuses on the evolution and development of human sexuality and sex differences. Apparently, women orgasm. Why they need to do it, however, has been a mystery for a long time. They don't need to in order to get pregnant, and sometimes they don't do it at all, for ages. So what use is the female orgasm? And what predicts the sort of partner who will make it happen? Expect to learn if the female orgasm is just a gatekeeper for oxytocin, whether more dominant male faces predicted earlier orgasm, why men competed for women through contests rather than sexual selection, how male-male aggression, not female selection, drove the evolved differences between men and women, whether you can tell a person's personality from their voice pitch, and much more. David is an absolute beast, and some of the work and studies that have come out of his lab are my favourites that I've learned about this year, including that epic one that Rob Henderson taught us about a couple of weeks ago about how male interpretations of formidability is a better predictor of male sexual success than female-rated attractiveness, and a ton of other ones, like the guy is a complete legend, and I'm very, very glad to have had him on. Also, don't forget that if you're listening, you should have also got a copy of the Modern Wisdom reading list, and you can get that right now by going to chriswillx.com/books. There's 100 books that you should read before you die, fiction and nonfiction, and there's explanations for why I like them, and there's links to go and get them, and you can go and pick it up right now for free, chriswillx.com/books. In other news, this episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep. 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