The History of the Clitoris
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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The Limitations of Terms for the Clitoris
I love that umbrella of the love gods and I never thought of it as being something that, yeah, that opens up. So I think language can be a very slippery thing in terms of just because they don't use the word clitoris doesn't mean that it's there. The emphasis on female pleasure is very true but why do we insist on if we just talk about the vagina this is also part of the erasure of the clitoris? If you use the word for the vagina you don't have any reference points for any other parts of the vulva or the clitoris. That becomes incredibly hard when you're having conversations about again female pleasure and sex education i'm always trying to
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