Evidently Todd and Lulli Akin believe that a woman must have an orgasm to become pregnant.
Gloria Shur Bilchik wrote in Occasional Planet (8/25/2012):
Akin’s magic-womb theory is an idea that was floating around during America’s colonial period.
According to the Los Angeles Times:
In those days, prior to modern medical understanding of conception, women were considered to be “more amorous” than men, and it was believed that both partners needed to have orgasms in order for conception to occur.
Nicholas Culpeper’s 17th century midwife manuals espoused that it was a woman’s “womb, skipping as it were for joy” that produced “in that pang of Pleasure” the “seed” needed for conception to occur. If both husband and wife were not properly in love and enjoying sex, conception would fail, he asserted, because “the woman, being averse, does not produce sufficient quantities of the spirits with which her genitals should normally swell.”