**TL;DR -- Female orgasms encourage females to seek out males for a pleasurable and beneficial sensation, thus encouraging procreation. Duh.** Scientists who have been studying sex can't seem to figure out the reason females have orgasms. I saw a documentary on this once, and it left me shaking my head in disbelief. Because it's really very simple. Think of animals going into heat. The female seeks a male to relieve the burning need for sex, thus encouraging procreation. Humans aren't much different. Just because females don't squirt out baby-making juice, doesn't mean that their orgasms don't serve a biological purpose. Human females *love* orgasms. We seek them out to relieve the heat, to procreate, or simply just for fun. There's no huge scientific mystery because the answer is quite clear: This encourages an act which can result in procreation. Duh. Not only that, but [orgasms release serotonin and many other chemicals in the brain] (https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-what-happens-to-your-brain-when-you-orgasm), which has been linked to numerous mental health benefits. So now we know why it's ignorant to not know how arousal works. But why is it sexist? [Because many scientists believe there's no purpose at all](https://www.livescience.com/female-orgasm-mystery.html). Men need them to ejaculate, females don't. Therefore the almighty penis is worshiped again for its practicality, while the female orgasm is looked upon as impractical and, therefore, an evolutionary mystery. After all, why develop something that isn't essential to survival? Except that I just explained its prime function in the survival of our species. Scientists, stop scratching your heads. You just got the answer from the horse's mouth. You're welcome.

[This article] (https://www.livescience.com/female-orgasm-mystery.html) mentions a lot of the current thinking on this topic. Some highlights: - Some scientists think that the female orgasm may once have helped reproduction but are confused as to why it stuck around, considering it isn't any longer, or perhaps even wasn't ever, necessary for reproduction. (Some researchers actually think that orgasms in females do still provide beneficial conditions for conception. The article mentions that some studies hypothesize that "more sperm" can enter the female's body if she orgasms closer to the time her partner does during sex.) Regardless, evolution probably wouldn't select for a trait that uses a lot of energy for supposedly no purpose, leaving open the possibility that the female orgasm stuck around because it does have a purpose---pleasure. - The pleasure hypothesis of the female orgasm may have less to do with sex having to feel good for reproduction to be achieved and more to do with the social role orgasms played in our ancestral past. Conception happens "all the time" without female pleasure, but "ancestral humans might have engaged in sex to create more cohesive groups, smoothing over conflict and cementing their social network." In this hypothesis, the female orgasm served as a kind of beneficial "social glue," which would have had a ripple effect of aiding survival, explaining, potentially, why evolution kept it around.

For scientific inquiry of this sort, we should avoid jumping to such political conclusions. There's nothing less scientific than "Don't question it. Even questioning it is offensive." Science has a very rough history with such a phrase. Question everything.

I'm confused by the opinion. Who is claiming female orgasm is a scientific mystery? A mystery in what way?