Amazing stuff! However, this research is dated from March 2026, but has not come to my attention until now.
Notice how prevalent feminist ideology shines through in the context of this research! E.g. "Clitoris is one of the least studied organs" or "Cultural taboos around female sexuality". Is this not e.g. largely true for the penis too? E.g. is this some form of the infamous "penis envy" or phallic fantasies?
What is the first thing that comes to the mind of these Dutch researchers? Gender affirming surgery! Gross! Appalling!
From the abstract:
"The clitoris is one of the least studied organs of the human body [???]. The detailed anatomy of the clitoris is challenging to address through a gross dissection, as most of its parts are embedded internally, surrounded by pubic bone and several pelvic organs.
While clinical imaging methods such as magnetic resonance imaging can capture the gross 3D morphology, they lack the spatial resolution required to resolve the detailed structures.
In this study, we generated micron-scale computed tomography images of the female pelvises, leveraging a synchrotron radiation X-ray source. This unique data revealed the complex trajectory of the dorsal nerve of the clitoris, the main sensory nerve of the clitoris.
Notably, the nerve trunks within the clitoral glans were revealed, with the maximum diameter ranging from 0.2 to 0.7 mm. They showed a tree-like branching pattern projecting towards the surface of the glans.
We also revealed that some branches of the dorsal nerve of the clitoris ramify to innervate the clitoral hood and mons pubis.
Finally, the posterior labial nerve, a branch of the perineal nerves, was shown to innervate the surroundings of the clitoris and the labial structures.
These findings have an immediate impact on operations performed around the vulva area, such as gender-affirmation surgery and reconstruction surgery after genital mutilation."
Scientists Just Made the Most Complete Map of the Clitoris’s Sensory Nerve Network. Here’s What They Found (Smithsonian Institution news release) "Cultural taboos around female sexuality have hindered research on the organ. But a new study provides pivotal insights that can inform important surgeries and health care"
Figure 1.
Dorsal nerve of the clitoris (DNC). (A, B). Overview of the clitoris. The colour coding is as follows: the dorsal nerve of the clitoris in yellow, the corpus cavernosum in green, the venous network in blue, the corpus spongiosum in magenta and the glans in transparent grey. Axes are on the left corners, with L, R, S, I, A, and P indicating left, right, superior, inferior, anterior, and posterior directions. (C-E). Cross sections of the clitoral body from proximal to distal. Yellow outlines indicate the DNC bundles. The cross sections are taken from the planes indicated in panel B (c-e). Scale bar = 1 mm. The width of the planes in Panel B is 1 cm.
"The clitoris is larger than most people think, and much of the organ is internal."
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