Raise your hand if you ever heard the word “clitoris” in school? No one? What about at home? Hmm. Not many, huh? Well, despite the cultural shame around sex and our bodies that many of us grew up with, we must soldier on and learn about our sex organs and how they works because *everyone* deserves pleasure and education.
Especially when it comes to the clitoris. It’s one of the most miraculous and incredible pieces of human anatomy, well, ever, and it’s long been ignored and misunderstood. (Related: Is Squirting Real? What to Know About Female Ejaculation)
Shockingly, the medical community didn’t know about the full internal structure of the clitoris until urologist, Helen O’Connell, M.D., figured it out while dissecting cadavers (she published her work, “The Anatomy of the Clitoris,” in 1998). But it wasn’t until 2005, when MRIs were done of the clitoris, that its full structure was finally revealed, and not until 2008, that we finally had the first 3D images of the clitoris. Yep. You did read that correctly. 2008. Are you cringe-smiling yet?
If you feel like you have a murky understanding of what and where your clitoris actually is (and isn’t), read on for four crucial facts every single human person needs to know about the clitoris. Your orgasm depends on it.
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