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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-28-06 01:43 PM
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Time for rethink on the clitoris (BBC)
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For two millennia it was a "little hill" - the meaning of kleitoris, its root word in Greek.

But an Australian urologist, Dr Helen O'Connell, has revealed that the clitoris is shaped more like a mountain than a hill.

Her work is forcing a re-write of anatomy books and a rethink among medical professionals.
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"The sex industry has known about this for some time," said Fiona Patten from the Eros Association, Australia's adult retail and entertainment industry body.

"You only have to look at the adult products on the market to see that they are not designed to find some tiny button at the top of the vagina.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5013866.stm

Whether you have one or whether you don't, enjoy reading about it. The anatomical diagram does not much help the article, FWIW.
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