Why Women Aren't Having Enough Orgasms with Charlene Douglas
The Referral with Dr. Karan
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The Psychosexual Gap in Sexual Relationships
In 1998 a urology surgeon, Professor Helene Connell, actually mapped the clitoris. It was only in 1998 that it wasn't really acknowledged as a larger than life piece. I think for a lot of women in particular, we are sort of naturally maternal people. We want to make sure that our partner is looked after and cared for. And so there isn't that focus then on what we need in order to orgasm. There's some genital stimulation, the pedendal nerve, which sort of controls the orgasm in men. You know, that reflex arc goes up the spinal cord to the brain. The vagus nerve sits outside the spinal cord and still gave them an orgasm.
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