Indeed, this organ, inessential to reproduction and yet utterly crucial to a woman’s sexual function—and which doctors have largely treated as either insignificant or sinister when they weren’t congratulating themselves for discovering it—serves in many ways as an avatar for the uniquely difficult relationship that the medical system has, and has always had, with women’s sexual health. Despite the initial assessment of women’s anatomy as inherently inferior, inverted, and other, medicine was ultimately forced to recognize the importance of the parts of a woman that produce eggs and hormones,
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