![]() However, while the subject is taboo, Orbach wants to highlight the fact that rigorous and legitimate work went into the research. “So, the idea that someone might watch the Stephen Colbert Show and see this report, and say, ‘hey, did you know dolphins have sex for pleasure?’ at the dinner table… to take science and make it more accessible and to increase scientific literacy, is definitely a priority of scientists across the world.” ![]() “It’s really important, I think, to make science accessible to people,” she said. Orbach said she is grateful the paper has been shared, and hopes it brings a spotlight to the science. Since the paper was published, the story has been shared in the New York Times, New York Post, and was even talked about in a segment on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “It’s been highly stigmatized as something that is socially faux pas.” ![]() “Our knowledge of clitoris morphology is quite rare,” she said. Over the course of the study, the researchers observed 'Evidence of a Functional Clitoris in Dolphins’, which happens to be the name of the paper. So, that was the momentum, or the idea behind the research.” “In dolphins, they have all year, so the thought was maybe they have it because it’s a fun experience, or that there’s some sort of pleasure affiliated with it. ![]() They mate to work out social bonds and dominance relationships, and it also is important in play and social learning,” Orbach said. “Dolphins are very social animals, and they mate for reasons besides conception. Earlier this year, Orbach, along with other researchers, published a study that was inspired by previous research, indicating that animals other than humans have sex for pleasure, including dolphins. Dara Orbach is an assistant professor of marine biology at Texas A&M - Corpus Christi. ![]()
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