FACTS: FUN AND OTHERWISE
Just a few to begin with…
Women have the only human organ said to exist solely for pleasure — the clitoris. Yet 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 only published in 1998 (by Dr. Helen O’Connell*, Australia’s first female urologist), making the clitoris younger than Seinfeld and Friends, if we’re being snarky. O’Connell wasn't able to prove the correct anatomy until 2005. [*Interview coming soon!]
The tip of the clitoris alone has around 8,000 nerve endings, the penis some 4,000 and the vagina, very few. Indeed, vaginal biopsies can be and are performed without anesthesia. In other words, referring to the entirety of female genitalia as a vagina is to define it by that which gives males, not females, the most pleasure.
As recently as the 1980s, med school anatomy books were still describing certain aspects of female genitalia as “a failure of male genital formation.” So…what does success for a species look like if half of its population - or the majority, if you’re in the West - doesn’t “fail” anatomically?
Humans are among just a few mammals whose females can have sex always, not just when ovulating/in heat.
Fertile cis women ovulate just a few weeks a year, for just part of their entire sexual lives, meaning that they’re having exponentially more recreational than procreational intercourse.
THE FEMALE ORGASM ISN’T ELUSIVE - when women are alone or with other women. When women masturbate, it takes about the same time to orgasm - four minutes - as it does for male masturbators. Also, lesbians have more orgasms than heterosexual or bisexual women.
In Medieval Europe, women were still considered to be the hyper-sexual sex, not men. As renowned writer-poet Giovanni Boccacio (1313-1375) put it: “While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman” (“Mentre i contadini generalmente assegnano un gallo a dieci galline, dieci uomini sono a malapena sufficienti per soddisfare una donna.”).