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Like why on earth the clitoris would be located OUTSIDE the vagina making female orgasm from intercourse alone impossible for 70-80% of women? Or why we crave junk food during our period even though it makes our cramps worse?
Clitoral stimulation isn't the only way to reach orgasm. It's a lot of fun and can get you really wet, thus making it much easier for a cock to slide into you and aiding in reproduction. And at the height of orgasm, the muscles clench and pull the sperm deeper into the body giving those little swimmers a direct path to the goods. Or maybe that's just me.
As for food cravings, I find them useful. But it took a long time to read those cravings accurately. I usually crave foods that are easy to digest, high in protein, and that purify and tone the blood. Cramps and cravings are your body's way of telling you that it needs something to aid the whole process. And it is really easy to misinterpret those signals. Your brain may think you want junk food, but your body is looking for comfort. And junk food rarely gives us that. Emotionally, yes...but not physically.
The clitoris is the homologue of the penis. Evolution has to allow us to develop male and female characteristics from pretty much the same embryonic starting point. One way of doing that is by not evolving out features that don't pose a major disadvantage (i.e. men have non-functioning nipples and women don't find them unattractive enough for us to have bred them out). Another way is to have features that take a different route at a certain stage of the development.
Evolution is utterly fascinating. I particularly find flight interesting. It doesn't seem evolutionarily possible until you realise that it often didn't develop as flight but then turned into it.
Either way, interesting post. I seem to spend most of my life thinking about it.
Evolution is so strange, I wonder about it all the time. The female orgasm doesn't even make sense. The male orgasm sends the sperm to the egg, very important to continue life. The female orgasm has no purpose. It's just something weird left over from evolution. Some women never orgasm, some don't even enjoy sex, and some enjoy it 10x more than a man ever could and have multiple orgasms.
It's confusing and it always will be.