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The Clitoris: A Recent Discovery in Human Anatomy (NSFW)

PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:48 am
by Project Willow
[On edit: I renamed the thread because it needed more attention and bumping.] :partyhat

Previous title: We May finally be able to Answer Your Question, Joe
Joe Hillshoist may not have known it, but when he asked, "What is a clitoris?" in jest in 2007, it was actually a timely and appropriate question.
http://rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?p=53145#p53145

For throughout the entire history of medical science, male researchers, due only to, one might assume, their insidious and pathetic misogyny, had utterly failed to accurately map the whole of the organ, despite performing countless dissections, examinations, X-rays, scans, etc., etc., over hundreds of years.

The only organ known to exist solely to provide pleasure, this is the clitoris:

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Internal erect clitoris, front.

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Internal erect clitoris, side view.

The external little man in the boat :mad2 that people call the clitoris is actually only the glans. The majority of the organ is internal and made up of newly discovered types of tissue including erectile tissue that encircles the vagina near its opening.



These discoveries are due to just a few researchers, Helen E. O’Connell. 2005 Report Anatomy of The Clitoris
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/%7Eanthro/courses/306/articles/oconnell-etal-clitoris.pdf
“The anatomy of the clitoris has not been stable with time as would be expected. To a major extent its study has been dominated by social factors … Some recent anatomy textbooks omit a description of the clitoris. By comparison, pages are devoted to penile anatomy.”


Dr. Odile Buisson and Dr. Pierre Foldès in France.
“When I returned to France to treat genital mutilation, I was amazed that they were never tried. The medical literature tells us the truth about our contempt for women. For three centuries, there are thousands of references to penile surgery, nothing on the clitoris, except for some cancers or dermatology -and nothing to restore its sensitivity. The very existence of an organ of pleasure is denied, medically. Today, if you look at the anatomy books that all surgeons have, you will find two pages above. There is a real intellectual excision. “



http://blog.museumofsex.com/the-internal-clitoris/

The scientific name for the external “little button” or “bulb” is glans. Not to be confused with glands, glans simply refers to a small circular mass. This little structure contains approximately 8,000 sensory nerve fibers; more than anywhere else in the human body and nearly twice the amount found on the head of a penis! From reading her work, it’s clear that Marie Bonepart mistakenly thought that the clitoris was completely comprised of the glans; and because it is super sensitive and all anyone can see of the organ, her confusion is mirrored by most women today. The fact is, though, that most of the clitoris is subterranean, consisting of two corpora cavernosa (corpus cavernosum when referring to the structure as a whole), two crura (crus when referring to the structure as a whole), and the clitoral vestibules or bulbs.

The glans is connected to the body or shaft of the internal clitoris, which is made up of two corpora cavernosa. When erect, the corpora cavernosa encompass the vagina on either side, as if they were wrapping around it giving it a big hug!

The corpus cavernosum also extends further, bifurcating again to form the two crura. These two legs extend up to 9cm, pointing toward the thighs when at rest, and stretching back toward the spine when erect. To picture them at rest, imagine the crura as a wishbone, coming together at the body of the clitoris where they attach to the pubic symphysis.

Near each of the crura on either side of the vaginal opening are the clitoral vestibules. These are internally under the labia majora. When they become engorged with blood they actually cuff the vaginal opening causing the vulva to expand outward. Get these puppies excited, and you’ve got a hungrier, tighter-feeling vaginal opening in which to explore!

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What does all this mean? Well, for starters, we can finally end that age-old debate of vaginal vs. clitoral orgasms.

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They're all clitoral orgasms.

Re: We May finally be able to Answer your Question, Joe

PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:50 am
by elfismiles
Wow! Thanks for this Willow.

The video of Betty Dodson was an added bonus! Hadn't heard about her in far too long. I have one of her early books featuring her renderings of many women's vaginas. I also have a framed print of her "Two Views of Woman" picture. These were originally my grandfather's. He was a sex researcher whom I believe knew Betty before his death.

http://www.DodsonAndRoss.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Dodson

Re: We May finally be able to Answer your Question, Joe

PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:20 am
by slomo
I know, you're reading my name and thinking, slomo is the last person here at RI qualified to comment on the clitoris.

It strikes me that the failure to consider the clitoris demonstrates not so much a hatred of women, but a hatred of pleasure.

Re: We May finally be able to Answer your Question, Joe

PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:53 pm
by JackRiddler
slomo wrote:I know, you're reading my name and thinking, slomo is the last person here at RI qualified to comment on the clitoris.

It strikes me that the failure to consider the clitoris demonstrates not so much a hatred of women, but a hatred of pleasure.


Surely it's a twofer for hatred.

Re: We May finally be able to Answer your Question, Joe

PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:58 pm
by JackRiddler
But my first comment should have been this:

This is the most exciting thread ever, intellectually as well as, um, literally. And I thank you for introducing me to the real shape of the clitoris.

Re: We May finally be able to Answer your Question, Joe

PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:01 pm
by MacCruiskeen
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The ankh, also known as key of life, the key of the Nile or crux ansata, was the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic character that read "eternal life", a triliteral sign for the consonants ʻ-n-ḫ. [...]

The origin of the symbol remains a mystery to Egyptologists, and no single hypothesis has been widely accepted.[...]

E. A. Wallis Budge postulated that the symbol originated as the belt-buckle of the mother goddess Isis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh

Re: We May finally be able to Answer your Question, Joe

PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:04 pm
by annie aronburg
Saw that and thought the same thing, Mac.

Maybe this is just really old news.

Re: We May finally be able to Answer your Question, Joe

PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:23 pm
by JackRiddler
elfismiles wrote:I also have a framed print of her "Two Views of Woman" picture. These were originally my grandfather's. He was a sex researcher whom I believe knew Betty before his death.


Can one see this picture online? Not easily ga-gagulled.

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Re: We May finally be able to Answer your Question, Joe

PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:38 pm
by crikkett
annie aronburg wrote:Saw that and thought the same thing, Mac.

Maybe this is just really old news.


Wow!

Re: We May finally be able to Answer your Question, Joe

PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:43 pm
by Twyla LaSarc
Wow! The ankh shape is definitely something to mull over. T'would certainly turn a bunch of mystical symbolism on it's ear...or not...poor men with only a wand, I've got an ankh dammit! LOL

Now I cannot help but wonder if our cousins in pleasure, the bonobos, are blessed with such structures as well.

Thanks Willow!

Re: We May finally be able to Answer your Question, Joe

PostPosted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:48 pm
by Project Willow
Thanks Elfis. Beautiful drawings and paintings by Dodson.

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JR, I've also found it very exciting! :evilgrin

That is interesting about the ankh symbol. At first I thought the circle part might not be fully joined except during arousal, there is a septum between the two sides, but it looks to work anyhow.

The corpus cavernosum clitoridis is one of a pair of sponge-like regions of erectile tissue which contain most of the blood in the clitoris during clitoral erection. This is homologous to the corpus cavernosum penis in the male; the body of the clitoris contains erectile tissue in a pair of corpora cavernosa (literally "cave-like bodies"), with a recognisably similar structure.


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Re: The Clitoris: A Recent Discovery in Human Anatomy

PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 2:47 am
by Hugh Manatee Wins
WTF??

I recently cited in an RI thread the 1938 movie, 'The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse' as an example of how old psyops is.
And now...THIS???

Just a coincidence, I'm sure....right.

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Re: The Clitoris: A Recent Discovery in Human Anatomy

PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 2:58 am
by AhabsOtherLeg
Bookmarked.

Re: The Clitoris: A Recent Discovery in Human Anatomy

PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 2:59 am
by slomo
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:WTF??

I recently cited in an RI thread the 1938 movie, 'The Amazing Doctor Clitterhouse' as an example of how old psyops is.
And now...THIS???

Just a coincidence, I'm sure....right.

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Because the clitoris did not exist before the CIA... :roll:

This cannot be fer reel*.

I think we've been misinterpreting Hugh. I think he's really a very highly evolved satirist. We are just not smart enough to get his jokes!

*I will admit that when I saw that Hugh had posted to this thread, my first thought was, "This oughtta be good..."

Re: The Clitoris: A Recent Discovery in Human Anatomy

PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:07 am
by Project Willow
I think it must be a joke, either that or he was joking in the pm he just sent me.

If the post is a joke, it's actually kinda funny in a refreshingly self-deprecating way.