Neuroanatomy of the clitoris

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."

Neuroanatomy of the clitoris | bioRxiv (preprint, open access)

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"

Credits: Major highway of the human nervous system gets a complete road map

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."

A majority of health research focuses on men's bodies. Nonprofit FemTechAZ aims to change that. Really!

A case of junk journalism! I have seen at least one other, similar news report this week!

Feminists have been repeating this story since the 1960s or so!

Yes, for historical reasons medicine focused on male bodies in the past, but this is not true anymore for at least the past 50 years. It time to cancel this false, outdated  propaganda!

Caveat: I did not read the entire article.

A majority of health research focuses on men's bodies. Nonprofit FemTechAZ aims to change that

Resurfacing a Forgotten Icon: Shere Hite

Older folks may remember the Hite Report published in 1976! It was quite a sensation back then.

Feminists sure liked this report when it came out!

Resurfacing a Forgotten Icon | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University "There was a time when Shere Hite was everywhere in American media—and then she disappeared. The scholar Rosa Campbell is bringing her groundbreaking lessons to new audiences."

Shere Hite

The Hite Report has sold 50 million copies worldwide, making it the 30th best-selling book of all time.

Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves [Featuring Aretha Franklin] (Official Video)

Enjoy! Two voices of feminism! These two ladies came out of the kitchen singing women's lib. 😊

Behind every great man there had to be a great woman!

Girl power: Female gorillas outrank males twice their size. Really!

When AAAS tries to sell feminist propaganda as science! May we call it junk science!

Maybe these males were the old or young or was otherwise handicapped (e.g. injury) etc.!

What about alpha females or larger than normal females? This was not investigated so it seems.

"In concrete jungles all over the world it feels like men and women are constantly competing for dominance. As human women navigate gendered pay gaps [???] and modern dating culture, their gorilla cousins [???] in actual jungles have to deal with their own challenges, such as being half the size of their male counterparts. ... Now, a new study calls into question this “male power archetype” by finding that female mountain gorillas actually outrank some males.

The researchers analyzed 25 years of behavioral data collected on 55 adult mountain gorillas in Uganda to understand the power dynamics between females and males. They found that even though each group was led by an alpha male, 88% of females outranked at least one male. ..."

From the highlights and abstract:

"Highlights

• Female mountain gorillas can outrank males despite being half their size

• In our study, females won 28% of agonistic interactions against adult non-alpha males

• Females had feeding priority over males they outranked

Summary

Males have been long assumed to strictly outrank females in all but a few mammals, potentially due to male-biased size dimorphism emerging from male-male competition and female mate choice. 

However, recent work questions these traditional [feminist] views [???], suggesting that intersexual power varies along a continuum from strictly male- to strictly female-biased and is not a static species attribute.

We used a 25-year dataset to examine the intersexual power dynamics in wild mountain gorillas, considered a prominent example of strict male power.

Although the highest-ranking individual in each of the four study groups was male, 88% of females outranked at least one adult male in multi-male groups.

Females won 28% of agonistic interactions against non-alpha males, predominantly when these males were young adults or old. Our results did not support that females gain power over males due to mating-based leverage, as a byproduct of male-male competition, or due to female-female support, but they suggested that females may gain power over non-alpha males due to alpha male support and by leveraging commodities not directly linked to mating.

Females always had feeding priority on a valued monopolizable resource over non-alpha males they outranked and, in half of the cases, over non-alpha males overall, highlighting a functional component of female empowerment.

Our study questions the “male power archetype” [an invention by feminists] assumption in a hominid that exhibits extreme male-biased sexual size dimorphism and, thus, it calls for future work to investigate similar long-standing assumptions regarding the evolutionary origins of intersexual relationships across species."

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Female mountain gorillas can outrank non-alpha males (open access)

Graphical abstract

Feminist's strike demos held in several Swiss cities. Really!

What are they striking for in the age of gender equality in Western countries?

Nowadays, what the call for women's rights or inequality often comes to is a demand for 50% gender quota! Half of all best, well paid and more pleasant jobs should be reserved for women. The other, more dirty and unpleasant jobs men can do! This is also referred to as cherry picking!

Men watch out in the battle of the sexes! Gentlemen, please do not get abused and exploited by these ladies!

"“We’re demonstrating for equal pay, equal treatment and equal rights for all, and against attacks on women and gender minorities at work, in private life, in politics and even in culture,” union Syna said on Friday. Equality in pension annuities is not forgotten, “because wage inequality affects pensions”. ..."

Women’s strike demos held in several Swiss cities - SWI swissinfo.ch All over Switzerland women took to the streets on Friday: in several cities feminist associations called for demonstrations to assert their rights.

Credits: Feministischer Streiktag: Eine violette Party zieht durch Zürich – weit über zehntausend Frauen demonstrieren für Gleichberechtigung

First evidence that Snakes Have Clitorises (hemiclitores)

Sex sells in many forms and ways! So in the 21st century we are finally able to confirm that snakes have hemiclitores? The clitoris was not even hidden (non-eversible) unlike other reptiles. The abstract could have been written by a feminist! 😊

"... Now, a study published today (December 13) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B sets the record straight: the snake clitoris not only exists, it may also play important roles in reproduction. ..."

From the abstract:

"Female genitalia are conspicuously overlooked in comparison to their male counterparts, limiting our understanding of sexual reproduction across vertebrate lineages. This study is the first complete description of the clitoris (hemiclitores) in female snakes. We describe morphological variation in size and shape (n = 9 species, 4 families) that is potentially comparable to the male intromittent organs in squamate reptiles (hemipenes). Dissection, diffusible iodine contrast-enhanced micro-CT and histology revealed that, unlike lizard hemiclitores, the snake hemiclitores are non-eversible structures. The two individual hemiclitores are separated medially by connective tissue, forming a triangular structure that extends posteriorly. Histology of the hemiclitores in Australian death adders (Acanthophis antarcticus) showed erectile tissue and strands/bundles of nerves, but no spines (as is found in male hemipenes). These histological features suggest the snake hemiclitores have functional significance in mating and definitively show that the hemiclitores are not underdeveloped hemipenes or scent glands, which have been erroneously indicated in other studies. Our discovery supports that hemiclitores have been retained across squamates and provides preliminary evidence of differences in this structure among snake species, which can be used to further understand systematics, reproductive evolution and ecology across squamate reptiles."

Snakes Have Clitorises After All, Study Finds | The Scientist Magazine® Researchers visualize the snake clitoris in detail for the first time, finding evidence that the organ may be evolutionarily important for snake sex.

First evidence of hemiclitores in snakes

Figure 1. Macroanatomy of the snakes hemiclitores (not exactly pornographic, but explicit 😊)

The French Justice annuls the conviction for rape of a young man falsely accused 24 years ago

Another Me Too event! It is only the 12th time that the French Justice annuls a verdict since 1945. It took the French Justice only 5 years to correct the verdict! 

In the battle of the sexes, men better watch out!

Can you believe it took the female accuser until 2017 to admit that this man did not rape her!!! The female was actually victim of repeated incest by her older brother. I do not know the statutes of limitations in France, but I suspect her brother will not be charged anymore!

"The French Justice has finally recognized that it was a mistake and annulled his sentence. He did so after the woman who accused him in 1998 recanted in a letter. This is the twelfth case recognized as a judicial error since 1945. ...
El-Haïry’s legal nightmare began when Julie D, a 15-year-old teenager, falsely accused him of raping and sexually assaulting her in Hazebrouck, northern France. This son of a Moroccan immigrant and a French woman was 17 years old at the time. ...

El-Haïry was sentenced in December 2003 to five years in prison, with four years and two months exempt from serving. He spent a year in provisional detention ... to later have to periodically go to register with the Gendarmerie and find himself included in the judicial file of perpetrators of sexual and violent offenses.

His accuser, Julie D., has remained silent for two decades, until in October 2017 she sent a letter to the Douai prosecutor. “I confess to having lied. Mr. Farid is not guilty of anything and he never committed acts of sexual assault or rape on me. The truth is this: between the ages of 8 and 12 I have been the victim of repeated incest by my older brother, “Julie explained in her letter, which she has now allowed to recognize the judicial error. ..."

The French Justice annuls the conviction for rape of a young man falsely accused 24 years ago - Pledge Times For two decades Farid el-Haïry proclaimed his innocence to the four winds after being falsely accused and convicted in France of the rape and sexual assault of a teenager in the late 1990s, but the judges did not believe him, until this Thursday.

Harvard University: Out for Blood: Feminine Hygiene to Menstrual Equity

This subject has been covered in depth at least since the 1970s by feminists, lesbians, and others! I do not know the details on this new exhibition, but it appears Harvard University is regurgitating here well knowns!

What is menstrual equity please? This new ideological term equity is quickly attached to everything under the sun thereby becoming meaningless and a nuisance!

"Throughout the 20th century, the marketing and design of menstrual products often stigmatized menstruation as an unmentionable bodily affliction. Menstruation was wrapped in euphemism: that time of the month, a weakness, a nuisance. “Feminine hygiene” products offered sanitation, invisibility, and freedom—but at what cost? Out for Blood: Feminine Hygiene to Menstrual Equity shows how marketing and social norms around menstruation create a cultural construct with power to shape people’s lives."

Out for Blood: Feminine Hygiene to Menstrual Equity | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Obituary: Elana Dykewomon

Her self chosen last name was her lifetime program! She was also a radical feminist. According to her minute Wikipedia entry, she considered herself to be a Lesbian separatist.

Elana Dykewomon, influential author whose characters were Jewish lesbians like her, dies at 72 - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Feminist Myths about Women in Science

Recommendable! I have blogged here about this dubious Nature journal article before. It appears that the female scientist was even dead wrong on the structure of DNA and that she failed to understand critical properties of DNA.

"... In fact Franklin’s contribution was recognized from the start. Watson and Crick, at the conclusion of their discovery paper, wrote: “We have also been stimulated by a knowledge of the general nature of the unpublished experimental results and ideas of Dr. M. H. F. Wilkins, Dr. R. E. Franklin and their co-workers at King’s College, London.” Moreover, Franklin published all her DNA results, in a paper of which she was lead author, in the same issue of Nature as the Watson–Crick paper. ...
In fact, she was leader of a rival team at a different institution. Listing one’s competitors as coauthors on a discovery paper is hardly a common practice. ...
In the book [The Double Helix (1968)], Watson mocked Franklin for resisting the idea that the DNA molecule was helical ... There was much truth in this assertion: she had even issued mock memorial invitations to lament the death of the helix hypothesis. ...
Franklin wasn’t sure, even by April 1953, that both forms of DNA visible to crystallographers were helical in structure. Though she knew the famous bases of DNA—designated A, T, G, and C—must be packed inside the helices, she had no idea how they might fit together. Because she refused to build models, she never came close to Watson’s pivotal insight that A always pairs with T, and C with G, forming cross-spiral ladder rungs of equal width. Finally, Franklin had failed to understand a critical feature of her data that was clear to Crick—namely, that DNA belonged to what crystallographers call the space group C2. This means, in brief, that the twin chains of the DNA molecule run in opposite, anti-parallel directions, such that the head of one chain lies against the foot of the other. ..."

Feminist Myths about Women in Science | City Journal A Nature article traffics in debunked history to bolster claims of discrimination against women in science.

Women are Credited Less in Science than are Men

NYC woman caught on video pushing commuter into moving subway train

The kinder, gentler and the more caring gender in action! Feminism is a mirage! How does this compare with so called toxic masculinity?

"Police are searching for a woman who was caught on surveillance video pushing another commuter into a moving subway train in New York City this week.

Authorities said the woman shoved a 42-year-old woman into the northbound train at the 42nd street and 7th avenue station near Times Square about 8:15 a.m. Monday morning, according to WNBC-TV.

The woman, who immediately fled the scene, can be see standing up from a bench and abruptly shoving the woman in the back right as the train began zipping by as a crowd of people stood around them. Investigators said the suspect and the victim did not appear to exchange words before the attack. ..."

NYC woman caught on video pushing commuter into moving subway train - TheBlaze

House Democrats Pass Measure Requiring Women to Register for Draft

Equal rights means equal duties! 

Feminists are famous for cherry picking: They like gender quotas so they can get into the c-suite or high government posts! When it comes to unpleasant duties, not so much!

On this topic, I can actually agree with the Dimocrats! Either this requirement to register is scrapped for all citizens or women and men have to be registered!

However, so called conservatives don't get it either when they complain about this measure.

"The shiver that ran down your spine Thursday could have been the chill in the air—or the draft in the House.

On Sept. 23, over Republican opposition, Democrats passed a measure requiring all women ages 18 to 25 to register for the Selective Service, just as men are currently required to do. Or rather, Democrats stuffed that measure inside a gigantic, must-pass bill called the National Defense Authorization Act to soften Republican opposition with a cushion of $24 billion in increased defense spending.

House Republicans from the Freedom Caucus tried everything to remove the provision that would force young women to register for the draft. ..."

House Democrats Pass Measure Requiring Women to Register for Draft

À la Carte Feminism

Today, I discovered this expression. It is an expression I was long looking for as it describes modern day feminism quite well.

In the battle of the sexes, power hungry feminists want chief executive roles in the c suite and high profile government posts. E.g. selected gender quotas where it suits these feminists well. 

How many women work in construction or in the mining business or other still male dominated, but less attractive industries? Let the dumb males do the dirty jobs, right? When will women be drafted into military service like men? Don't bother sophisticated feminists with such petties!

Men beware! Perhaps chivalry not at any price!

Persistent Gender Inequality Regarding Military Draft Registration

If we are serious about gender equality, then women must be registered for military draft like men!

The U.S. Military Selective Service Act of 1948 exempts women from having to register for military service like men! From a gender equality perspective, this is a case of blatant sex discrimination!

Feminists obviously like to cherry pick! Yes, gender quotas for board rooms and corporate officers! Serving in the military, not so much! 😄 Makes perfect sense in the battle of the sexes! Chivalrous gentlemen wake up and watch out!

Credits to following article, which is kind of wrong on the merits as indicated in the headline, but it made me aware that men are discriminated against in favor of women:

Gender Inequality Isn't the Problem With the Draft - Foundation for Economic Education While draft registration does involve unequal treatment of men and women, the larger issue is Selective Service registration itself.

9 Inspiring Women Who Led the Way to a Better Future | Smithsonian Channel

Not recommendable! Very peculiar and selective in their choice of women! Video is also repetitive and singularly focused on black women. None of the Founding Mothers was mentioned, just one glaring omission!

So the wife of President Woodrow Wilson was actively involved in the cover up of his debilitating stroke during about the last 15 months of his second term? This is supposed to show that a Woman led the way to a better future?

I blogged here, here, and here about highly overrated Rosa Parks and the carefully planned civil disobedience act of hers.

I don't think I ever heard of Carlotta Walls. According to Wikipedia, her only claim to fame is she was one of the Nine Little Rock students. That is all!

The portrait of Hillary Clinton was almost laughable!

The short portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt was interesting! I did not know that she traveled to many places overseas during World War II, e.g. United Kingdom, Guadalcanal etc. The short portrait of Lady Bird and Betty Ford was also a a positive surprise to me.

Abtreibung in Polen: Scham, Stigma und Stolz der Frauen Unsinn

In keinem westlichen Land werden die Rechte des ungeborene menschliche Leben so geschützt wie in Polen. Was ist daran falsch?

Immer wieder die selbe feministische Propaganda seit einigen Jahrzehnten. Immer wieder fallen viel zu viele Männer darauf rein oder sind zu nachgiebig!

Abtreibungsregelungen in westlichen Ländern sind ein trauriger und schwieriger gesellschaftlicher Kompromiss.

"Der Protest gegen das faktische Verbot [??] des Schwangerschaftsabbruchs hat Polen verändert. Die Bilder der Fotografin Kasia Strek zeigen eindrücklich, welchen Preis die Frauen für die rechtskonservative Gesellschaftspolitik bezahlen."

Abtreibung in Polen: Scham, Stigma und Stolz der Frauen «In keinem westlichen Land ist Abtreiben so stigmatisiert wie in Polen»

Jane Dieulafoy, a 19th-century French archaeologist, broke the law by wearing pants.

Let me guess, this is one of those many articles that try to establish the contributions of women to science, literature etc. Like many other people, I do not remember that I have ever heard or read about Jane Dieulafoy.

Like famous men had often very supportive wives or female companions without them their lives and accomplishments would have been very different, the same can be assumed for famous women.

What seems to be clear though is that her longtime husband fully supported his wife's endeavors and her expression of masculinity/cross-dressing/tomboy. Her archaeological exploits were accomplished with her husband together. One may speculate that without her very supporting husband, her life would have been very different.

This lady certainly had an unusual life (excerpts are from Wikipedia) plus my comments (in blue):

1. "That same year [1870], the Franco-Prussian War began. Marcel [her husband] volunteered, and was sent to the front. Jane accompanied him, wearing a soldier's uniform and fighting by his side."
2. "With the end of the war, Marcel was employed by the Midi railways, but during the next ten years the Dieulafoys would travel in Egypt and Morocco for archaeological and exploration work. Jane did not keep a record of these journeys. Marcel became increasingly interested in the relationship between Oriental and Western architecture, and in 1879 decided to devote himself to archaeology."
3. "During her travels abroad, Jane Dieulafoy preferred to dress in men's clothing and wear her hair short, because it was otherwise difficult for a woman to travel freely in a Muslim country. She had also dressed as a man when she fought alongside Marcel Dieulafoy during the Franco-Prussian war and she kept dressing in men's clothing when she came back in France. This was against the law in France at the time, but when she returned from the Middle East she received special "permission de travestissement" from the prefect of police." 
   One may also safely speculate that this prefect of police was a male at that time who issued this permission to cross-dress to her! One may further speculate that women in male clothing at the time were perhaps not so rare as generally believed.
4. "It is difficult to determine Dieulafoy's motives for choosing to wear men's clothing. She wrote, "I only do this to save time. I buy ready-made suits and I can use the time saved this way to do more work" but, given that she includes many characters who cross-dress in her fiction ... she was clearly fascinated with the subject of cross-dressing and her motives appear to be more complex than mere convenience."
5. "Dieulafoy considered herself an equal to her husband, but was also fiercely loyal to him. She was opposed to the idea of divorce, believing it degraded women."
   Well that may disappoint some feminists!
6. "During the First World War, she petitioned for allowing women a greater role in the military."
   Gender equality certainly means that women like men should be e.g. drafted into military service and into combat roles. Many feminists most certainly do not like this idea to bring women in harms way, they rarely demand military service equality to the best of my knowledge! 

Jane Dieulafoy, a 19th-century French archaeologist, broke the law by wearing pants. (behind paywall) Jane Dieulafoy wore men's clothes in the 1800s, but France looked the other way. She became a celebrity, renowned for discovering ancient Persian treasures.

Jane Dieulafoy (Wikipedia)

Covid-19 expert Akiko Iwasaki fights a different virus: sexism in science

This is not about sexism or power balances anymore in the battle of sexes! This is more about achieving domination by matriarchy and subjecting men into submission! 

All gentlemen please pay attention! Don't be fooled!

"... She said a retired male professor, who was a former chief of surgery at a different university, had recently berated her in an email over a paper she wrote in Nature Medicine that called out toxic principal investigators in academia and charted how to dismantle hostile workplaces. “He told me that my kind of attitude … was ruining the lives of young men,” she said"

Most likely this female scientist is a feminist, dogmatic crusader!

At the top of her field, a Covid-19 researcher fights back against a different kind of virus: sexism and power imbalances in science To know Iwasaki is to know that she is passionate about combatting sexism, power imbalances, and toxic behavior in academia.

Disturbing video catches the moment irate woman pepper sprays family having a picnic — allegedly because they weren't wearing masks

Women do it too! Women can be violent! Welcome to the age of gender equality! Debunking the feminist ideology of the better gender!

Unless this was a premeditated video for fame and money!

"O'Brien says that the masked woman called the couple "idiots" and stuck up her middle finger at the two dining before deploying pepper spray at them and their food."

Disturbing video catches the moment irate woman pepper sprays family having a picnic — allegedly because they weren't wearing masks - TheBlaze