This is a 3D model of a clitoris – and the start of a sexual revolution
It looks like a tulip emoji, but this anatomically accurate clitoris will aid education and debunk myths that have repressed women’s sexuality for centuries.
Considering all the technological, medical and scientific achievements humans have made, this seems to have taken a long time. The distribution of this model has been possible due to 3D printing technology; but even three-dimensional MRI scans, which previously produced the most accurate representations of the clitoris, only became available in 2009.
But it was worth the wait. The truth is, you might struggle to gain pleasure from a tool you don’t even know you have. In 2016, women finally know without speculation what the whole of their sexual organ looks like; and for many it won’t be quite what they imagined.
You may be wondering, what’s the big deal? Is the clitoris not the “small, sensitive, erectile part of the female genitals at the anterior end of the vulva”, as Oxford Dictionaries defines it? And isn’t the real issue simply whether it brings a woman sexual gratification?
Well, decide for yourself. The popular opinion seems to be that the 3D printed clitoris resembles a wishbone.
But the important thing is that it debunks myths that have repressed female sexuality for centuries. For one, it refutes the dictionary/textbook education that wrongly asserts the clitoris is the size of “a fingertip”, a “pea” or that it is small. We can now clearly see that the clitoris includes two shafts (crura) which are actually about 10cm long. Not only can we visualise that the clitoris is more than what the eye perceives; with the visual model we can also now get a mental image of how it encircles the vagina, making penetrative sex potentially orgasmic. This means that a demystified discussion about the female orgasm is possible at long last.
Article:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/15/3d-model-clitoris-sexual-revolution-sex-education-womens-sexuality
Photograph: Company handout
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Most useful for men too. Knowing more about female anatomy, replaces mysticism with facts, and struggling misconceptions with precise action.Thou one might like to use a winding road rather than a straight one. Enjoy the ride AND the destination.
ReplyDeleteKind of sextoy including batteries ;-)
ReplyDeleteIt is similar to the male organ, those two glands seem testicles.
ReplyDeleteJay Gerlach It's a loaded question. One might equally question why males must orgasm to ejaculate, why could it not be a voluntary act.
ReplyDeleteThere is a meme which I believed until about 5 minutes ago that the female orgasm helps with conception rates. But apparently maybe, maybe not
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-06/why-orgasming-doesnt-help-you-conceive
This picture of the structure is interesting, but I wonder what the distribution of nerve cells is throughout the clitoris. I think that's likely a better indicator of how significantly sensation and gratification are localized at the tip.
ReplyDeleteAnecdotally I'll mention that on more than one occasion I've been instructed to focus my attention more effectively. ;)
thanks for posting this, it's extremely interesting. I'll be thinking about this a little next time I use mine. :-)
ReplyDeleteBryce Etheridge a more recent theory suggests that although orgasms don't play a direct role in ovulation in some recent species (such as primates), the orgasm for women is an evolutionary hold over from when it did.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/new-theory-suggests-female-orgasms-are-evolutionary-leftover
On a side note, it's interesting, that as ovulation became independent of orgasms, the clitoris migrated away from the vagina. I've always leaned towards believing that female orgasms were evolutionary selected for because they enhance bonding and an incentive to reproduce - as with men. But the fact that the clitoris has moved seems to indicate otherwise.
Sean Walker Having lived with a uterus, and then without one, I found that during orgasm the uterus spasms, which could very well be a mechanism for drawing the semen deeper into the organ to facilitate better fertilization. Without a uterus, the orgasm is significantly less eventful.
ReplyDelete... so orgasms are only a way to squeeze out and in the semen ?
ReplyDeleteJean DAVID clearly not, or no babies would result from rape, but it does increase the chances of fertilization.
ReplyDeleteWorth point out since it wasn't mentioned in the article (and we are somehow having an adult conversation about sexual organs on the internet without anyone going off the rails)
ReplyDeleteI've read that the sections of the clitoris that line the vaginal walls are made of vascular tissue and engorge with blood during arousal, similar to a penis. Intuitively this would tighten the vaginal canal and increasing physical contact. I believe these would be the Red sections of the model.
Jean DAVID Yes, but not only see that your woman enjoys with orgasm , even if you have not had an orgasm the mind makes you have!
ReplyDeleteThis is how the internal erect clitoris looks like. Let's stop with assumptions.
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Corina Marinescu Thank s Corina for this explanation!
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ReplyDeleteI'm glad you feel better.
Corina Marinescu thank you! It looks like
ReplyDeleteI won't be dying of cancer just yet.