Hi friends, welcome back to the show.

My guest today is David Putz.

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?

What predict the sort of partner who'll 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 vermitability

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

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