Yet another Hacker News

We're unlocking the biggest mysteries of the clitoris

40 points Vaslo 2 hours ago 9 comments

forgotmypw17 1 hour ago | parent

0x4e 1 hour ago | parent

This article feels like it's full of no big mystery being unlocked other than the clitoris non-sexual stimulation being used as pain treatment during labor, but I'm sure not as effective as just some potent pain killer.

NDlurker 1 hour ago | parent

Right, mostly it's about how there are a bunch of nerves and stimulating those nerves leads to orgasm. Who doesn't know that?

ptsneves 25 minutes ago | parent

I find it a mystery why so many nerves are there, as well as why they were positively selected for. Enough so that human women have them with huge variation in shapes and sizes but they are there.

The idea of it being a pain killer for birth but requiring a vibrator is interesting, because I don’t think any culture developed clitoris stimulation as a child birth helper. If it did help I would expect it to change birth outcomes and thus being a source of positive selection.

The only thing that bothered me is that gender affirming is in fact an amputation, because they gave their clitorises to science. It even took me a while to understand what the term “gender affirming surgery” meant.

unsnap_biceps 21 minutes ago | parent

I thought that the clitoris contains all the nerve endings that would be in the male penis, just in the smaller area vs being spread out over the entire penis and penis nerves are selected for to encourage male mating.

hagbard_c 13 minutes ago | parent

In a penis the nerve endings are also mostly in the glans (head) so the difference isn't that big. Most of the parts of these two organs match somehow, just shifted around a bit.

thendrill 59 minutes ago | parent

Summary: men were so bad at foreplay that evolution made an external user interface for women to prepare the system for successful mating....

paaloeye 22 minutes ago | parent

location?