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The History of the Clitoris

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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The History of the Clitoris

I did with my research decide to stick with Western culture because that's what I was most familiar with. There were scientists in other cultures using words like tentigo or cholomela that kind of referred to the clitoris and this is something I think would be really interesting to talk about. The mismatch that we have in the West and the dominant culture which is led by the church anatomists, male medical men philosophers, increasingly sought to deny the clitoris. Even if a scientist did come along and say, hey I've discovered this thing that kind of silenced it, but actually there's a very spectacular culture.

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