FACTS: FUN AND OTHERWISE

Just a few to begin with…

• Women have the only human organ said to exist solely for pleasure — the clitoris.

• However, the first scientific paper to provide a correct medical mapping of the clitoris — proving there was another 90% to the organ under the skin, and just not the “button” above it — was not published until 1998. Which, in a sense, makes the clitoris younger than Seinfeld and Friends.

• The tip of the clitoris alone has around 8,000 nerve endings, the penis some 4,000 and the vagina, very few. (In fact, vaginal biopsies can be performed without anesthesia.) So calling the entirety of female genitalia a vagina is to define it by that which gives males, not females, the most pleasure.

• Anatomy books used to describe certain aspects of female genitalia as “a failure of male genital formation” — as recently as 1985. So the majority of the population was seen a failure, and the minority a success?

• Humans are among just a handful of mammals on the planet whose females can have sex always, and not just when ovulating/in heat. With fertile women ovulating just a few weeks a year, for just part of their entire sexual lives, this means females are having exponentially more recreational, than procreational, sex.