Oh please, this is old news. I’ve had that shit mapped for a couple decades.
The Onion, August 16, 1966:
Emphasis mine:
Almost 30 years after the intricate web of nerves inside the penis was plotted out, the same mapping has finally been completed for one of the least-studied organs in the human body – the clitoris.
As well as revealing the extent of the nerves that are crucial to orgasms, the work shows that some of what medics are learning about the anatomy of the clitoris is wrong, and could help prevent women who have pelvic operations from ending up with poorer sexual function.
The clitoris, responsible for sexual pleasure, is one of the least studied organs of the human body. Cultural taboo around female sexuality has held back scientific investigations and the clitoris did not even make it into standard anatomy textbooks until the 20th century. And in the 38th edition of Gray’s Anatomy in 1995 it was introduced as just “a small version of the penis”.
Cool work, though! Here’s the bit from the article that discusses some of the findings:
Lee and her colleagues show that some branches of clitoral nerves reach the mons pubis, the rounded mound of tissue over the pubic bone. Others go to the clitoral hood, which sits over the small, sensitive, external part of the clitoris – the glans clitoris – which is just 10% of the total organ. Other nerves reach the folds of skin of the vulva, the labial structures.
Previous research had indicated that the big dorsal nerve of the clitoris gradually diminished as it approached the glans. However, the new scans appear to show that some of what medics have been learning in anatomy is wrong and the nerve continues strongly all the way to the end.
“I was especially fascinated by the high-resolution images within the glans, the most sensitive part of the clitoris, as these terminal nerve branches are impossible to see during dissection,” said Georga Longhurst, the head of anatomical sciences at St George’s, University of London.
and here’s a link to the preprint:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.18.712572v1
“a small version of the penis”.
I had a HS science teacher tell us this. Which honestly seemed progressive by US public school sex ed standards.
At the risk of coming off like a total ignoramus It’s not totally off base right? The structures develop from the same starting point so the male/female genitalia have analogs of each other I thought.
Ovaries/testes, scrotum/labalia, clitoris/penis.
You are correct.
It’s very reductive, sexist since it takes the penis as default organ and the article says that’s how it’s described in Gray’s anatomy, the book that doctors use and students learn from of the human anatomy.
I agree that it’s reductive and not the way doctors should be learning this stuff. And I do see how it might imply a default view to some so I will just state the obvious corollary:
The penis is just a large version of the clitoris.
Good question, I always assumed it had the same nerve endings as a penis but that’s it?
But I thought clitoris was supposed to be more concentrated dick
The clitoris is not a penis, but they are homologous organs, meaning they develop from the same embryonic tissue (the genital tubercle) and share similar structures like erectile tissue and a glans. Both are highly sensitive, but the clitoris differs from the penis because it does not contain a tubular urethra for urination.
Google. I just thought it was pretty weird and ignorant to call it a little penis.
I just thought it was pretty weird and ignorant to call it a little penis.
That’s what I keep telling the ladies, but they don’t listen.
Google. I just thought it was pretty weird and ignorant to call it a little penis.
Its actually fairly validating vis-a-vis genital reconfiguration surgery for example, IMO.
Also I would assume it works the other way for trans dudes on T and their stuff tending to grow enlarged, validation-wise.
We’re really not that different, male and female. That’s the devastating (/s) truth.
Yep, there is a reason we call it a T-dick.
It’s a context thing. Like the reason calling it a tiny dick in the book context is the framing comes from a patriarchy stand point. It can’t be just the clit or a sexual arousal organ or whatever. It has to be framed in the lens of patriarchy as lesser.
Gender surgery is pretty advanced anymore.
If you want TMI as someone on small does T with one, it hasn’t just enlarged but the sensation of how it feels to be touched has changed dramatically.
To your point. Men and women are not as different as the systems of power want us to believe and is the core of actual feminism.
smacks the hood of the clitoris we can fit so many nerves in this bad boy
Ouch
The jokes just write themselves really. Honestly that’s probably why it took them so long to finally do this, they were too embarrassed to ask for funding.
I’m sorry but my friends older brother told me he knew all of the nerves years ago, so someone obviously didn’t check in on him or his warm couch. Just ask any woman in Perth, because he apparently had sex with all of them when he went there on vacation. They’re all hot surfers?
A map? A map! We finally have a map! And look at this, treasure! G marks the spot! Get a good night’s sleep, scallywags, we sail at dawn!
This is why I took the vocel pledge. Too many sweats
