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La frecuencia de los orgasmos femeninos depende del nivel de ingresos de la pareja

20MINUTOS.ES. 18.01.2009 - 17:18h

La posición económica de la pareja es uno de los factores que más influye en el número de orgasmos

• Son las conclusiones de un estudio británico.
• La frecuencia de los orgasmos tiene una relación directa con el nivel de ingresos de la pareja.
• El orgasmo sirve para crear lazos afectivos con una pareja "de calidad".

El dinero no da la felicidad, pero sí orgasmos: eso, al menos, parece indicar un estudio de la Universidad de Newcastle que concluye que el placer que las mujeres obtienen del sexo está directamente relacionado con la holgura de la cuenta bancaria de su pareja, según informa el rotativo The Times.

"La frecuencia de los orgasmos de las mujeres aumenta con el nivel de ingresos de su pareja", afirma el Dr. Thomas Pollet, psicólogo director del estudio, quien atribuye esta correlación a una "adaptación evolutiva".

Según esta explicación, la posición económica es uno de los factores que las mujeres tienen en cuenta de forma subconsciente al elegir pareja, ya que atribuyen a los signos de riqueza una mayor calidad como pareja reproductiva.

Soy extremadamente fiel, así que invierte en mí y en mis hijos

Aunque el estudio puede desatar polémicas, el rotativo británico lo enmarca en un amplio abanico de estudios pertenecientes a la llamada "psicología evolucionaria", que sugiere que tanto los hombres como las mujeres tienen una predisposición genética para aprovecharse el uno del otro con el fin de mejorar las posibilidades de supervivencia de sus genes.

Para realizar el estudio se utilizaron datos de más de 1.500 mujeres chinas, y los resultados parecen ser extrapolables al conjunto mundial de mujeres, sin importar su nacionalidad.

Los investigadores se centraron en el orgasmo femenino porque éste no parece tener ninguna finalidad reproductiva, sino únicamente de selección de pareja.

"Pueden incentivar la creación de lazos afectivos con un marido de alta calidad o señalar que una mujer está sexualmente satisfecha, por lo que probablemente no buscará otro hombre", sostiene el Dr. David Buss, de la Universidad de Texas. "Lo que los orgasmos dicen es: 'Soy extremadamente fiel, así que invierte en mí y en mis hijos".

Wealthy men give women more orgasms

Fuente: The Sunday Times,

January 18, 2009

Jonathan Leake, Science and Environment Editor

Scientists have found that the pleasure women get from making love is directly linked to the size of their partner’s bank balance.

They found that the wealthier a man is, the more frequently his partner has orgasms.

“Women’s orgasm frequency increases with the income of their partner,” said Dr Thomas Pollet, the Newcastle University psychologist behind the research.

He believes the phenomenon is an “evolutionary adaptation” that is hard-wired into women, driving them to select men on the basis of their perceived quality.

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The study is certain to prove controversial, suggesting that women are inherently programmed to be gold-diggers.

However, it fits into a wider body of research known as evolutionary psychology which suggests that both men and women are genetically predisposed to ruthlessly exploit each other to achieve the best chances of survival for their genes.

The female orgasm is the focus of much research because it appears to have no reproductive purpose. Women can become pregnant whatever their pleasure levels.

Pollet, and Professor Daniel Nettle, his co-author, believed, however, that the female orgasm is an evolutionary adaptation that drives women to choose and retain high-quality partners.

He and Nettle tested that idea using data gathered in one of the world’s biggest lifestyle studies. The Chinese Health and Family Life Survey targeted 5,000 people across China for in-depth interviews about their personal lives, including questions about their sex lives, income and other factors. Among these were 1,534 women with male partners whose data was the basis for the study.

They found that 121 of these women always had orgasms during sex, while 408 more had them “often”. Another 762 “sometimes” orgasmed while 243 had them rarely or never. Such figures are similar to those for western countries.

There were of course, several factors involved in such differences but, said Pollet, money was one of the main ones.

He said: “Increasing partner income had a highly positive effect on women’s self-reported frequency of orgasm. More desirable mates cause women to experience more orgasms.”

This is not an effect limited to Chinese women. Previous research in Germany and America has looked at attributes such as body symmetry and attractiveness, finding that these are also linked with orgasm frequency. Money, however, seems even more important.

David Buss, professor of psychology at the University of Texas, Austin, who raised this question in his book The Evolution of Desire believes female orgasms have several possible purposes.

“They could promote emotional bonding with a high-quality male or they could serve as a signal that women are highly sexually satisfied, and hence unlikely to seek sex with other men,” he said. “What those orgasms are saying is ‘I'm extremely loyal, so you should invest in me and my children’."