It's usually upstaged by the vagina, which is usually left in the dust by the attention that the penis gets. So, to walk into an art exhibit all about the clitoris was pretty amazing even for a sex educator! The artist, Sophia Wallace, in her ongoing mixed media project, aims to:. Wallace's focus on the clitoris and female pleasure serves to question and counteract the history of misinformation regarding women's bodies and the concomitant oppression therein.
The clitoris has 8, nerve endings (and nine other things we learned from a new artwork)
Ambiguous genitalia is a birth defect where the outer genitals do not have the typical appearance of either a boy or a girl. The genetic sex of a child is determined at conception. The mother's egg cell contains an X chromosome , while the father's sperm cell contains either an X or a Y chromosome. These X and Y chromosomes determine the child's genetic sex. Normally, an infant inherits 1 pair of sex chromosomes, 1 X from the mother and 1 X or one Y from the father. The father "determines" the genetic sex of the child. A baby who inherits the X chromosome from the father is a genetic female and has 2 X chromosomes.
Clitoroplasty is the surgical creation of a clitoris in transgender women as part of sex reassignment surgery , restoration in the case of procedures reversing the damage caused by female genital cutting , or surgery to change clitoral size for women and girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia. As part of reassignment surgery for trans women, there are several ways to create a clitoris from existing tissue. The most common method in practice is to separate the penile glans from the paired erectile tissues, and reduce in size to simulate a clitoris.
The Glitoris — a gold, scale model of a clitoris by artist Alli Sebastian Wolf to raise awareness of female sexuality. Photographs: Alli Sebastian Wolf. Wolf will settle for a world with equality on toilet walls, where there are as many clitorises graffitied as penises. And now that the giant, golden clitoris has got your attention, here are 10 facts Wolf wants you to know.