In her debut book Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage, rachelegross takes us on a journey around “the organs traditionally bound up in baby-making―the uterus, ovaries and vagina,” elaborating both on what science knows, and what it doesn’t.
In fact, Marie Bonaparte and Freud were wrong about the female orgasm, as you relate in Chapter 2. There’s really no distinction between clitoral and vaginal orgasms, because, as Helen O’Connell, a groundbreaking Australian urologist, points out, the clitoris is not a single organ but a “cluster of erectile tissues” that hug the vagina and urethra. During vaginal penetration, sensation actually comes from the stimulation of the clitoris through vaginal walls.
What I took away from that research was that our conception of our own bodies—those of us who identify as women—could look very different. I found that from the Greeks to Freud, there’s been this strong tendency to divide up female genitals into separate parts. After doing this research, and talking a lot to Dr. Helen O’Connell, I took away that we were a lot more interconnected and whole than we were made out to be. The body parts we’re talking about all work together so intimately. They’re interconnected in their blood supply and their nerves, and in the sensations that they give us.” because it shows that all these tissues are intimately tied together in their fates, and physically incredibly close and touching.
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