In other words, since women are not periodically receptive like other mammals, there must be some mechanism provided for arousal that can be activated at will and that will not leave women in a constant state of arousal. However, she subsequently dismisses this theory as women, again, are just as orgasmic outside of fertile periods. And this is precisely the case that remains to be elucideated. It seems that women have evolved as sexual beings, their orgasms motivate them to have intercouse and reproduce but might also have evolved to just give a woman pleasure. Pleasure in itself might be important for survival, it might even motivate survival.
Women tend to physically suffer more in life due to childbirth, menstrual cramps, etc.
Therefore, their orgasmic potential, which is not directly crucial for intercourse, might have evolved to compensate the aches and pains implicated in reproduction, which women have to endure. In which case, the release of orgasms would represent a discharge of all kinds of tensions. In conclusin, I believe that evolutionsits should further investigate about female sexuality and formulate a plausible explanation for the anatomy of the clitoris. In the meantime, it should just be accepted that women are just as sexual as men and that their sexuality can be even more independent from reproduction than men's sexuality. The Evolution of Desire , BasicBooks, New York.