The anatomical bible Gray’s Anatomy was just one of many to remove the clitoral label from their diagram of female genitalia. Other textbooks significantly undersold the clitoris’ size, the extent of its nerve supply, or only deigned to mention the external glans, accompanied by a cursory explanation of its form being merely a ‘small version of the penis’. It wasn’t until 1998 that the pioneering Australian urologist Helen O’Connell published the first detailed anatomy of the human clitoris and began a noisy campaign for accuracy in medical texts. The rest of the animal kingdom lags way
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