Better Symmetry Means Better Orgasms

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Page 447 of the text states that people prefer faces that are more "averaged" and symmetrical. This goes for more than just how we see people. According to a study of 86 heterosexual, sexually active couples, women have less orgasms is their partner's face is asymmetrical.
So as odd (and maybe slightly awkward) as it may be, women are more likely to have an orgasm with a male partner who has a symmetrical face.

There may be Biological and Evolutionary explanations to this phenomenon.
As I learned in one of my Biology courses, the female orgasm assists with transportation of sperm (via muscular contractions inside of the vagina) so that they have better access to the egg they need to fertilize.

As mentioned in the book, we sometimes see asymmetry and other facial imperfections as clues that our partner's genes are inferior.
We want to mate with people who have good genes so that our offspring will have a better chance of survival. So if women are with a mate who they think posses those genes because of their facial symmetry, then the women are more likely to orgasm and get those sperm over to the egg.

Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/000334729580014X

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I found your post to be very interesting and definitely unique. It actually does make sense with the data you provided that women would orgasm (better chances of reproducing) with men would they would rather have children with. I noticed however, this study was only using 86 couples and I am wondering if perhaps the data would be different using a larger sample. I am also curious as to how strong the results were, was it a large percentage of women orgasming with symmetrical faced men, or were the results barely off from average.

Nice thinking!! Way to take it to ze next level. Alternative hypothesis for the outcome of the study with 86 couples: perhaps those with average faces are more used to being attractive, thus more confident, thus more comfortable in bed, and thus are more capable, per se?

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