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_refugee_  ·  3040 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Overdue, Under-Told Story Of The Clitoris

Who's we and why does an article about clitorises incite such a negative response from you?

From the article you're so eager to denigrate,

    A recent study found that 29 percent of female college students could not locate the clitoris on a diagram of the vulva.

I guess about a third of females over 18 (let alone 16) don't know all about the clitoris.

    This is just meant to garner attention

How terrible that anyone pay attention to sex organs.

    and money

Welcome to every published article you'll read here on Hubski today.

    There's no clitspiracy, we just don't want to talk about them all the time

"In Bruce Bagemihl's survey of The Zoological Record (1978–1997) – which contains over a million documents from over 6,000 scientific journals – 539 articles focusing on the penis were found, while 7 were found focusing on the clitoris." cribbed from wiki quoting Balcombe, Jonathan (2007). Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the Nature of Feeling Good. Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-8602-3..

Looks like the mysterious "we" doesn't want to talk about clits, but sure does love to discuss dicks a lot. I'm not saying it's a clitspiracy but I'm saying that this represents a clear pattern of gender bias in research. Gotta know all about dicks but no one cares about the wee sad clitoris. Doesn't support your theory of "we just don't want to talk about them," really. And "all the time" - jeez - this one article today is really overwhelming you, isn't it? Do you feel surrounded? Unable to go anywhere to discuss non-sexual organs? Or at least, maybe instead, some dicks?

    Anyway, this movement is ridiculous and dumb and sad,

What movement? The movement to educate women (and men) about their anatomy? The movement to learn more about the anatomy of human beings through medical and scientific exploration and discovery? The movement to talk about something that hasn't been given nearly as much attention as its male counterpart? The movement to educate the ignorant? You're right. It is ridiculous. It's ridiculous that clitorises were often not even portrayed in anatomy textbooks in the 20th century. And you're right. It's dumb. It's dumb for us as people to perpetuate ignorance and not explore and learn as much about our bodies as possible. And it is definitely, definitely, sad - sad that in some parts of the world as many as 85% of women have undergone the brutal removal or destruction of the external parts of their clitorises. It's sad that some religions and cultures today still teach that women do not have sex for pleasure and should not. It's sad that there is such a disparity in knowledge and familiarity with clits vs. dicks both in the scientific community and the populace at large.

You may have known everything that was written in this article before you read it. That doesn't make this article pointless or worthless or even wrong.

Just because you knew everything in the world about trigonometry, say, doesn't mean that the rest of us should burn our textbooks.