Hallazgo: Clitoris rivaliza tamaño del pene

Desde hace muchos siglos los anatomistas han sido en su mayoría hombres. Ellos han disectado, estudiado y publicado sus hallazgos sobre el cuerpo humano, pero eso empieza a cambiar. Y ese cambio de mirada ha detectado errores de interpretación. Uno de los más grandes ha sido el haberse equivocado en el real tamaño del clitoris, y pensar que como las mujeres no tenían un organo sexual grande envidiaban al pene masculino. Parece ser que también Freud se equivocó, porque una doctadora australiana llamada Helen O´Connell ha descubierto que el clítores es mucho más grande de lo que se pensaba. Lo que se ve del clitoris, es solo la parte visible, ya que es solo la punta de una pirámide. Copio de BBC News:

Time for rethink on the clitoris

By Sharon Mascall

Dr O'Connell's finding has forced a rewriting of medical texts

For two millennia it was a "little hill" - the meaning of kleitoris, its root word in Greek.

But an Australian urologist, Dr Helen O'Connell, has revealed that the clitoris is shaped more like a mountain than a hill.

Her work is forcing a re-write of anatomy books and a rethink among medical professionals.

The findings could also have repercussions for women coping with continence problems.

The clitoris rivals the penis in size.

"The vaginal wall is, in fact, the clitoris," said Dr O'Connell, who is based in Melbourne.

"If you lift the skin off the vagina on the side walls, you get the bulbs of the clitoris - triangular, crescental masses of erectile tissue."

The idea had been that the clitoris is more than just its glans - the "little hill" but Dr O'Connell discovered the mistake 17 years ago.

Frustrated that she kept failing a medical exam, she went back to the anatomy books for answers. She discovered they were wrong.

"They left it out," she said. "It boils down to rivalry between the sexes: the idea that one sex is sexual and the other reproductive.

"The truth is that both are sexual and both are reproductive."

The Australian Doctor's Fund - a medical policy think tank - is demanding more time for anatomy in Australian medical schools.

The teaching of basic sciences - including biochemistry, pathology and anatomy - is so inadequate, it says, it has made a submission to the Australian federal government, demanding an overhaul of doctors' training.

But Dr O'Connell believes the quality of training is just as important as the quantity.

"Pelvic anatomy is not that easy to display or have interpreted," she said.

"Most people struggle with dissection-based images. They are quite confronting."

Dr O'Connell prefers to work with magnetic resonance images (MRI) to define the true size and shape of the clitoris.

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By imaging the pelvises of healthy humans - rather than dissecting dead ones - she has found that the live clitoris is even larger than she first thought.

"There's nothing quite like the shape of a clitoris," she said.

"The glans are dense with nerve endings and receptors - all the vibration and sensation is there."

The bulk of it is shaped like a pyramid, she said.

Its base forms the external genitalia or vulva; its triangular "walls" are wrapped around the urine-carrying tube known as the urethra and the vagina.

When aroused, the whole structure becomes engorged.

"Helen has gone to significant effort to confirm what we suspected," said Dr Margaret Davy, director of gynaecological oncology at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in South Australia.

"The original anatomists weren't interested in the clitoris. The penis was much more interesting.

"It was bigger and you didn't have to wear your spectacles to see it."