From: sbharris@ix.netcom.com(Steven B. Harris)
Newsgroups: sci.med
Subject: Re: Clitoris revisited
Date: 15 Aug 1998 23:49:39 GMT

In <35e4acbc.5597681@nntp.ix.netcom.com> s.meric@ix.netcom.com (Polar)
writes:

 [[quote from:
	Susan Williamson. The truth about women. New Scientist, 1 August 1998

	www.cirp.org/news/clitoris/
	www.newscientist.com/article/mg15921455.500.html
 ]]

>So why have anatomists routinely got the clitoris wrong?
>
>Part of the problem may be a Victorian prudishness about women's
>sexual organs. Then there's the fact that most of the clitoris is
>hidden inside, shielded by lots of fat and the arch of the pubic bone.
>Another obstacle to accuracy is that anatomical studies are usually
>done on the bodies of women in their 80s and 90s. Just as muscle and
>bone wither with age, so does the mass of erectile tissue in the
>clitoris.
>
>This article is from New Scientist, a weekly science and technology
>magazine based in London.


   Well, well.  Some of that "G-spot" may simply be clitoris extension
that nobody knew was there.