I had a HS science teacher tell us this. Which honestly seemed progressive by US public school sex ed standards.
At the risk of coming off like a total ignoramus It’s not totally off base right? The structures develop from the same starting point so the male/female genitalia have analogs of each other I thought.
It’s very reductive, sexist since it takes the penis as default organ and the article says that’s how it’s described in Gray’s anatomy, the book that doctors use and students learn from of the human anatomy.
I agree that it’s reductive and not the way doctors should be learning this stuff. And I do see how it might imply a default view to some so I will just state the obvious corollary:
The penis is just a large version of the clitoris.
I had a HS science teacher tell us this. Which honestly seemed progressive by US public school sex ed standards.
At the risk of coming off like a total ignoramus It’s not totally off base right? The structures develop from the same starting point so the male/female genitalia have analogs of each other I thought.
Ovaries/testes, scrotum/labalia, clitoris/penis.
You are correct.
Good question, I always assumed it had the same nerve endings as a penis but that’s it?
It’s very reductive, sexist since it takes the penis as default organ and the article says that’s how it’s described in Gray’s anatomy, the book that doctors use and students learn from of the human anatomy.
I agree that it’s reductive and not the way doctors should be learning this stuff. And I do see how it might imply a default view to some so I will just state the obvious corollary: