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0x4e • yesterday at 8:17 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Good point on the first paragraphs. The why seems to be that it’s mostly about pleasure.

Although not essential for survival, pleasure seems to be programmed in us as a species, so the body evolving this to give women the balance of a complex pleasure organ to make up for the pain — in so many levels — they go through during birth.

So maybe nature was like “they suffer a lot during birth and pregnancy, let’s give them a clitoris that gives them REALLY good pleasure that the male counterpart won’t be able to ever experience or comprehend.”


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skeledrew • yesterday at 9:19 PM

Pleasure is essential for - generational - survival. Species would've died out already if there was no upfront benefit to sex.