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CrispyQ

(36,482 posts)
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 11:47 AM Sep 2013

Found this via Miss Representation's FB page.

"The clitoris is not a button, it is an iceberg."

You have to check out the images:
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According to a 2011 post by Museum of Sex blogger Ms. M, the internal clitoris (highlighted in yellow in the images above) is a complex erectile structure consisting of two corpora cavernosa (that are said to wrap around the vagina when erect), two crura (erectile bodies that branch out from the clitoral body), clitoral vestibules or bulbs, and the clitoral glans (the part that you can see).


Cliteracy 101: Artist Sophia Wallace Wants You To Know The Truth About The Clitoris

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/cliteracy_n_3823983.html

New York artist Sophia Wallace wants you -- and everyone you know -- to be cliterate.

"It's appalling and shocking to think that scientifically, the clitoris was only discovered in 1998," Wallace told The Huffington Post from her Brooklyn studio last week. "But really, it may as well have never been discovered at all because there's still such ignorance when it comes to the female body."

The clitoris, described as the only human body part that exists solely for pleasure, is not merely a little "button" hidden between a woman's legs, but rather a large, mostly internal organ many people don't know about, Wallace explains.


and this...

One of the most fascinating of Wallace's "100 Laws" references the story of a French doctor named Pierre Foldes who, thanks to recent research into the anatomy of the clitoris, came up with a method of repairing the damage caused by female genital mutilation. By removing scar tissue from the vulva and lowering -- and revealing -- a portion of the internal clitoris, he has been able to restore pleasure to thousands of women who have been circumcised.


Good for him!

And then there's the "Clit Rodeo." Oh my. You have to read it.

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seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
1. i KNOW. and the visual, ya we women are visual also, go figure... really helps to define experience
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 11:56 AM
Sep 2013

fascinating. and crying shame i am as old as i am, and it is 2013, and we are jsut seeing this and hearing it talked about. and wowsers....

the clitoris was only discovered in 1998


that is hard to believe if it is true and another hard to believe cause of experience, lol.

thank you for this post

CrispyQ

(36,482 posts)
4. Hey, when it's all about the men . . .
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 12:05 PM
Sep 2013

Remember years ago when they came out & said taking a baby aspirin a day is good for your heart? My doctor reminded me that many medical studies are done on just on men, then they take the results & say it's good for everyone. Hopefully that has changed. ???

Good to see you.

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
7. thank you. and yes, this though is more so about "all about men" then anything i have witnessed.
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 12:07 PM
Sep 2013

i mean fuckin for real.... 1998 before they even figured out the clitoris? crazy. that takes all about men to an absolute extreme

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
9. Very good with many of those points. ONE doctor... To fix damage done.
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 12:20 PM
Sep 2013

And ya, the four minutes and males expected to climax with No stimulation to their sex organ. See how hard that one is.

I am a gal of the 70's, 80's. just true to self so wasn't any issues. But reading this shines a different light.

ismnotwasm

(41,995 posts)
11. That actually horrified me
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 12:46 PM
Sep 2013

It said his technique is being learned by others, but--- damn, One. Fucking. doctor.

redqueen

(115,103 posts)
13. Those are fantastic!
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 03:02 PM
Sep 2013

I was mostly on a different board when this research came out. It was a riot discussing the myriad implications of all of the issues covered on those graphics and the (at the time) most recent example of the manifestation of sexism in science and research.

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