#977 - Dr Robert King - Why Does The Female Orgasm Exist?

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Dr Robert King is a psychologist, professor at University College Cork, and researcher on the evolutionary function of female orgasm. What makes the female orgasm so mysterious? For generations, men across the globe have sought to decipher it, and many women share their curiosity as well. So why does the female orgasm even exist? What’s its evolutionary purpose? And have scientists like Dr. Robert King finally cracked the code? Expect to learn what most people don’t understand about the female orgasm, why women have multiple orgasms and men don’t, the biggest predictors of the female orgasm, how much female desire of men is driven by other female’s desire of those men, what women want in men sexually, if penis size and length are as bog of factors as men tend to think, if there are similarities in reproductive anatomy across males and females, and much more… Sponsors: See me on tour in America: ⁠https://chriswilliamson.live⁠ See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: https://chriswillx.com/deals Get 35% off your first subscription on the best supplements from Momentous at https://livemomentous.com/modernwisdom Get up to $350 off the Pod 5 at https://eightsleep.com/modernwisdom Get a 20% discount on Nomatic’s amazing luggage at https://nomatic.com/modernwisdom Timestamps: (0:00) How Do You Get into Studying the Female Orgasm? (2:23) What Does Sex Research Look Like? (4:42) Misconceptions About the Female Orgasm (11:16) How is the Female Orgasm Adaptive? (24:38) What are the Biggest Predictors of Female Orgasms? (28:26) Intrasexual Competition (46:27) Catherine Salmon and the Dark Romance Genre (52:42) Romanticisation of the Lesser Man (54:45) Does Size Matter? (58:59) Why is Ease of Orgasm So Varied? (01:11:22) Do Orgasms Differ Depending on Sexual Relationships? (01:16:19) Characterising Modern Sex Culture (01:27:23) Find Out More About Dr Robert Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: https://chriswillx.com/books Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: https://tinyurl.com/43hv6y59 #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: https://tinyurl.com/2rtz7avf #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/3ccn5vkp - Get In Touch: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How do you get into studying the female orgasm?
0:04.0	It's just going to go to dive straight in.
0:06.5	Okay, so my background was I was a school teacher for 20 years.
0:10.2	And I was interested in psychology and math.
0:13.2	That's what I taught.
0:14.4	About 20 years ago, I came across a really interesting book.
0:17.8	My woman would call Elizabeth Lloyd.
0:19.5	It was a bias in the science of evolution. I was on
0:23.4	holiday in Thailand. I read it. The book told me that female orgasm did nothing, had no
0:29.2	function. And to say I was surprised would be an understatement. And I got interested. And I started
0:37.1	studying evolutionary biology and I approached
0:40.0	some prominent figures in the field and said I think I haven't I you seem to have an issue here
0:43.8	studying this subject I think um and it it you know just sort of I I'm obviously quite a nerdy kind
0:52.5	of character I delve into these things.
0:54.3	I read the original stuff.
0:55.6	And once I started reading the original stuff,
0:57.1	it became obvious that there were two very distinct traditions of studying human sexuality,
1:01.9	particularly female orgasm.
1:03.2	One of them went down this strange route of saying it did nothing.
1:06.2	And another one which had been somewhat sidelined,
1:09.6	suggested that she had some really interesting
1:11.1	functions. What was your intuition? What was it that you thought early on, this seems to be a
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