Don't surgeons ever see it and wonder what it is?I think the articles suggest that you can really only see how it works when it's erect? And probably not too many surgeons operate on aroused women. To see it, you have to have MRI technology, and then you have to have someone who is curious enough about the anatomy of female sexual pleasure to think to look at how the clitoris works. The first thing has been around for a while, but the second one only occurred recently.
The sad fact is it wasn’t until the 1990’s that researchers began using MRI to study the internal structure of the clitoris. By then, the intricate details of the penis were already well known.That's still pretty late, but I remember several mass media articles over the past few years about the anatomical revelations from O'Connell. Betty Dodson was even drawing a reasonable approximation of the full structure of the area a few years ago (NSFW; NSFDS).
Urologist Helen O’Connell of the Royal Melbourne Hospital set out to better understand the microscopic nerve supply to the clitoris using MRI, something that had already been done for men with regard to their sexual function in the 70s. In 1998 she published her findings, informing the medical world of the true scope and size of the clitoris. Yet ironically that same year, men in America began popping Viagra to cure erectile dysfunction.
In 2005 The American Urological Association published one of Dr. O’Connell’s reports on clitoral anatomy. The report itself even states, “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.” The report also mentions how seemingly impossible it is to understand the internal structure of the clitoris with just one diagram. Several are required to truly get a comprehensive understanding of it.
"[Masters and Johnson] also proved that when applying a certain amount of friction to a woman's clitoris it gave her emence pleasure."posted by lapsangsouchong at 3:29 PM on January 21
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