# Do female animals experience orgasm during sex? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 4, 2017, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-female-animals-experience-orgasm-during-sex/785848 "2017-05-04T10:39:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![obbn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d6d6ee/32.png) [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-female-animals-experience-orgasm-during-sex/785848/1 "2017-05-04T10:39:35Z")
Hello Everyone, Since the female orrgasm isn’t necessary for reproduction, do female animals have orgasms? ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-female-animals-experience-orgasm-during-sex/785848/2 "2017-05-04T11:20:51Z")
It seems so. After a detailed exposition on sexual gratification in female primates: > [@](#): > > Mel Allen manually stimulated the clitorises and vaginas of female chimps in the course of writing his master’s thesis at the University of Oklahoma, “Sexual response and orgasm in the female chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes).” (Surely he had fun describing his work at parties.) ~ One of them allowed stimulation to continue to orgasm on ten separate occasions. The author, Shaunacy Ferro, goes on to talk about lesser species: > [@](#): > > The rat does not think, I want to have a baby. Such planning is beyond her. The drive is for immediate reward, for pleasure. And the gratification has to be powerful enough to outweigh the expenditure of energy and the fear of injury from competitors or predators that might come with claiming it. It has to outweigh the terror of getting killed while you are lost in getting laid. The gratification of sex has to be extremely high. > > [Do animals have orgasms?](http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-09/fyi-do-animals-have-orgasms) ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-female-animals-experience-orgasm-during-sex/785848/3 "2017-05-04T19:59:02Z")
In animals I know well (horses, dogs, & cats), when in heat, the females display very clear ‘inviting’ behavior toward males. Often multiple males, one after another. Something (either instinct or pleasure) is inspiring them to seek out sex. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2017, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-female-animals-experience-orgasm-during-sex/785848/4 "2017-05-07T23:59:34Z")
A September 17, 1982 [Straight Dope Classic from Cecil’s Storehouse of Human Knowledge](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/55/do-female-pigs-have-six-minute-orgasms) discusses this very question. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-female-animals-experience-orgasm-during-sex/785848/5 "2017-05-08T01:02:51Z")
It might not be _necessary_ but it’s certainly adventageous. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-female-animals-experience-orgasm-during-sex/785848/6 "2017-05-08T19:06:28Z")
> [@bob\_2](#): > > … > The author, Shaunacy Ferro, goes on to talk about lesser species: > > > [@](#): > > > > …the terror of getting killed while you are lost in getting laid… is simply superb. Either he had great editors or Ferro has a great future, if necessary, as a science writer. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-female-animals-experience-orgasm-during-sex/785848/7 "2017-05-08T22:16:31Z")
> [@bob\_2](#): > > It seems so. After a detailed exposition on sexual gratification in female primates… How does one know when a female chimpanzee has had an orgasm? :dubious: Don’t need answer fast. > [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > is simply superb. Either he had great editors or Ferro has a great future, if necessary, as a science writer. Ferro is a woman.