These “new” clitoral structures are analogous to the bulb of the penis, part of the approximate half of the penis that is located internally. Given that all genitalia arises from the same indifferent embryonic organs in both males and females, and both the penis and clitoris arise from the genital tubercle, I’m surprised this is such a big deal to “discover”.
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Well - I learned something new today.
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Actually I think it kinda does, a lot of the time.
You can talk about the functions that you know a given organ performs without shooting your mouth off, but if you start to talk about the organ in terms of what it’s for, IMO you better use a speculative tone. Evolution is simply too clever by half for us to be able to figure out exactly what it’s up to 100% of the time.
Consider those evolved electronic circuits that feature odd little oscillators, apparently not hooked up to anything, like an appendix. Anyone who looks at the circuit and knows their electronic theory would assume with certainty that these anomalies can simply be pruned off the circuit, but no.
Evolution can discover things we don’t know about electronics, just like that. And anyone with an education worth a damn knows that the complexities of electronics are like an exercise in pure simplicity next to the machinations of DNA.
Just look at some of the stuff we’re starting to discover via transplant recipients with strange stories of altered tastes… it goes to show how we need to avoid the mistake of confusing bits of reality with our far more discrete labels for it. Hubris is a recipe for finding out fewer things, in less pleasant ways.
y’all know what to do when anybody spreads legs, right? scream real loud!
i’m pretty sure this was a different medication, much earlier than sildenafil/viagra
That’s how Billy Crystal got pregnant.
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There’s a term, which I forget what it is, which I think is sort of similar to what you’re talking about. It’s when one uses an anthropomorphized metaphor for the “desires” of inanimate substances, e.g. “hot air wants to go up” or “oil and water don’t like each other.” As long as you don’t take it literally, it can be a useful way of explaining things. Of course evolution doesn’t have a purpose (as far as we know,) but that doesn’t mean that the organs it has “given” us don’t. Everything is there for a reason; nobody rides for free.
AHAH!
I knew something so complicated couldn’t be so small! Science! YOU FAILED ME!
The inner clitoris looks like the Venus symbol,
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Coincidence?
The clitoris, after all, is the only organ that exists purely for the purpose of conveying pleasure
Two words:
Men’s nipples.
See a synopsis of the history of the periodic disappearance and rediscovery of the human clitoris, illustrations, contemporary art, and many articles at: http://afterdinnerparty.com Researchers over the last decade such as Helen O’Connell deserve a great deal of credit, as does Odile Buisson, a French gynecologist, but Suzanne Gage mapped the organ and published her work in the feminist press in 1970’s. The word is getting out, finally.
Goddam. It took me forever to find this article.
But everything is not there for a reason. The appendix is the classic example, but there are hundreds of others in the human beast alone. A thorough knowledge of anatomy is the best possible argument against “intelligent design.”
It’s fantastic to find new articles and discussions about the internal clitoris. As a company, X. Treme Orgasmatronics is really interested in educating the public about the iceberg nature of the clit. We sell a tee that is intended as a walking educational tool. It has a little Dr. Who humor as well. If you have any interest you can check it out at doctorxtreme.com.
That’s Aristotle actually, which is why he set back science by about 800 years.
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