The Valley Advocate: Leisure - Clit Chat: 14 Clitoral Factoids to Know. Factoid 1. The clitoris is the only part of the human body that exists solely for pleasure. Other pleasurable spots like the nipples, neck, tongue and penis all have at least one other function. 2. The clitoris is bashful, only revealing one-fourth of herself outside the body—namely, the clitoral head and its fashionable hood. The other three-fourths hide internally, including the clitoral shaft, urethral sponge, vestibular bulbs and the crura (aka the clitoral legs), which are housed inside the outer labia and can be stimulated with external pressure, causing many to moan "a little to the left.
" 3. We get hard-ons, too! While we're developing in Mom's womb, our clitoris is formed from the same erectile tissues that would've been the glans and upper shaft of the penis. So the aroused clitoris is basically an itty-bitty boner. 4. The clitoral head alone contains 8,000 nerve endings—4x as many as exist on the larger head of the penis, making it more sensitive than his entire kit 'n' kaboodle. Seven Stories Press — The Clitoral Truth: The Secret World at Your Fingertips.
The clitoris has been dismissed, undervalued, unexplored, and misunderstood for hundreds of years, but the truth is out there, and internationally celebrated sex educator Rebecca Chalker has found it. In The Clitoral Truth, Chalker offers the only mainstream, in-depth exploration devoted solely to women's genital anatomy and sexual response. Women readers everywhere—be they straight, gay, or bisexual—will learn about the countless sexual sensations and discover how to enhance their sexual responses in a more concrete way than ever before. The Clitoral Truth also examines the ways in which women are enhancing their sexual response through masturbation, the use of sex toys, videos, books, workshops, individual coaching sessions, and the Internet.
For more than 2,500 years, the clitoris and the penis were presumed to be equivalent in all respects. The Clitoral Truth investigates every aspect of this magnificent organ to see how its many parts work together to produce orgasms. What does clitoral stimulation do to your brain? Is the clitoris the target of female circumcision?
(ew) Yes, it is. They cut it off so the woman won't have any fun. Notice that male circumcision leaves most of it there. Many forms of female circumcision don't involve cutting off the clitoris. This is precisely the kind of horror I'm talking about. We silly apes were born into these bodies and until quite recently didn't even have the slightest idea how or why they worked and yet, in total ignorance, authorities presumed to tell us how to operate them. Www.norm.org/prepuce.pdf. The Art After Dinner Party: Mass Public Clitoral Action. The Clitoral Truth with Rebecca Chalker. The Internal Clitoris | Museum of Sex Blog.
Consider this: In over five million years of human evolution, only one organ has come to exist for the sole purpose of providing pleasure—the clitoris. It is not required for reproduction. It doesn’t have a urethra running through it like the penis, and thus, does not urinate. Its sole function—its singular, wonderful purpose—is to make a woman feel good! Sadly, it is precisely because the clitoris has no function apart from female pleasure that science has neglected to study it as intricately as the penis. In my last post I wrote about Princess Marie Boneparte and her revolutionary work on the female orgasm. There was however, one piece of pertinent information she was lacking that science had not yet discovered: the true size and scope of the clitoris. Try asking the next person you encounter to tell you where the clitoris is located. The scientific name for the external “little button” or “bulb” is glans. Sketch of an erect clitoris What does all this mean? Sketch of a clitoris at rest.