“People who object to the by-product hypothesis [for female orgasm] are doing something strange: They're saying that it's hugely important to them that female orgasm turns out to be an adaptation, like vomiting, cobra venom, and the scorpion's stinger, rather than a "mere" cultural invention, like science, medicine, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

—  Steve Stewart-Williams

Source: The Ape That Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve (2018), p. 59

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