Female orgasm: battleground of science?

By Kathryn Doyle

NEW YORK Thu Oct 16, 2014 5:28pm BST

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hapless lovers are not the only ones who get lost down there: even sexologists cant agree on whats what, and where, among women's female parts.

At least, thats according to a father-daughter team of researchers in Italy, Drs. Vincenzo and Giulia Puppo.

In a new review in the journal Clinical Anatomy, Vincenzo, of the Italian Center of Sexology in Bologna, and Giulia, a biologist at the University of Florence, point out some problems with some of newer anatomical and physiological terms researchers have been using since the mid-1990s.

The G-spot? Out. Vaginal orgasm? Out. Female penis? In. Its the best way to refer to female erectile organs, according to the Puppos.

Sexological and sexual medicine textbooks today often neglect the embryology, anatomy and physiology of the female erectile organs, Vincenzo said.

He and his coauthor cite dozens of such publications by other researchers, largely from within the last 15 years, pointing out the use of terms like inner clitoris that are, admittedly, not very well defined in those papers.

The internal clitoris does not exist, the entire clitoris is an external organ, Vincenzo said. It is composed of an externally visible glands and body, like the male penis, and of roots, which are hidden, he said.

But to back their assertions regarding the correct terminology to use, the Puppos employ no actual subjects or data and instead use 12 diagrams, 11 of which come from their own previous publications (the 12th is from Wikipedia).

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Female orgasm: battleground of science?