Greetings All,

August 1st news release from ScienceDaily:  
Origins of the Female Orgasm Explained
"Female orgasm seems to be a happy afterthought of our evolutionary past when it helped stimulate ovulation, a new study of mammals shows."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160801092949.htm

Though not on lactation, this new article from Yale researchers discusses the origins of the female orgasm re: prolactin and oxytocin: "The scientists focused on a specific physiological trait that accompanies human female orgasm -- the neuro-endocrine discharge of prolactin and oxytocin -- and looked for this activity in other placental mammals. They found that in many mammals this reflex plays a role in ovulation . . . . The homolog of human orgasm is the reflex that, ancestrally, induced ovulation."

In:  Journal of Experimental Zoology. Part B, Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 2016 Jul 31. doi: 10.1002/jez.b.22690. [Epub ahead of print]
Title:  The Evolutionary Origin of Female Orgasm.  
Authors:  Pavličev M, Wagner G.

Debra Swank, RN BSN IBCLC
More Than Reflexes Education
http://www.MoreThanReflexes.org/on-learning/
http://www.MoreThanReflexes.org/webinars/

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