Lori Malépart-Traversy, while getting her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at Concordia University in Canada, created an adorable, humourous and extremely informative animated short documentary film in 2016— Le Clitoris. The film addresses the biological and historical know-hows of one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented organ of the female anatomy: the clitoris.
The clitoris is a small organ located at the top of the vulva, just above the urethra and the vaginal opening. The head of the clitoris is estimated to have more than 8,000 sensory nerve endings and hence, is quite sensitive. The sole purpose of the existence of clitoris is to provide pleasure.
Yes, that’s right. It exists purely for pleasure. As the film correctly points out, women are lucky to have the only organ in human body dedicated exclusively to pleasure, however, it also points how the existence and eminence of this pleasurable organ has been obscured over the years. Women can achieve sexual pleasure through the clitoris itself but with the invention of concepts like the ‘vaginal orgasm‘, given by Sigmund Freud, women’s sexual pleasure had been forced to become dependent on penetration.
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Contrary to what most women and men believe, and are shown endlessly in porn, the vaginal penetration isn’t the essence of sexual pleasure for women. The clitoris is. But since the primary focus of sexual intercourse is male pleasure, the penetrative aspect of it is given much more importance. Malépart-Traversy’s film is an attempt to change just that.
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The short film discusses how in ancient Greece in the Middle Ages, the female orgasms were encouraged for better fertility. Up until the 19th century, the Catholic Church too advised women to have orgasms to help release sexual tension. But starting in the 1800s, doctors began rallying against women’s orgasms and incorrectly termed it as causing terrible diseases, like Hysteria, and termed clitoris to be completely useless to female sexuality. Freud’s concept of ‘vaginal orgasm‘ pushed the clitoris further into what Malépart-Traversy called the ‘clitoral obscurantism‘. And even today, so many people fail to realise the truth about the existence of the clitoris. It is merely reduced to being included in foreplay, instead of being given due importance for the female orgasm.
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Those doctors were not wrong tho, it IS a pretty bad design in the biology and a needless organ as well on top of it.
If clitoris was well fused with internal walls of vagina, not only every female orgasm would be easy to ahieve, but also likely efficient, i mean look at every single other primate that do exists, humans might be the only one that know the clit even exists as well.
And that even due to human being able to judt manually able to operate on genitals, unlike the majority of mammals, so it simply would sense to clit to be fused with walls rather than being collective point of the pleasure on a particular small area, that is untouchable unless it is done manually.
And without education, even discovery of that would remain a mystery to possibly both of the genders.
Back the what happened could be well justtified
Hand has nothing to do eith feminity or female sexuality, its not like clitoris were suddenly put a drop of HCL on as girls got old, now that was an actually issue, that happened along like male circumcision, but that simply did not last long.
I see, people who state facts have to moderate rheir comments, because facts hurt feelings.
I’ve heard and believe the “theory” that when a woman orgasms at the time, or right after a man cums inside, that the woman’s orgasm pushes the sperm up further helping get it to the cervix.
Also, if a man has already orgasmed and you continue to rub yourself with the semen that is on the outside while he’s still going, the orgasm is intensified and it makes my clit have a slight tingly feeling and my orgasm is that much better. All in the name of baby making !!!