Biology of the female orgasm
• Sexual Health
Extracts from a longish article on the possible biological causes of women's sexual sufferings.
It was two years ago that Meloy stumbled on the spinal nerve pathways that control orgasm, through this fortuitous accident. Since then, the North Carolina surgeon has been conducting clinical trials on a remote-controlled, matchbox-sized signal generator, which is implanted in the patient's buttocks. His discovery may add a tiny piece to a puzzle coming together through a flood of international sex research in the past 20 years. ...
In January this year, an Australian journalist, Ray Moynihan, wrote an editorial for the British Medical Journal, criticising drug companies' involvement in "inventing" a "new" disease - female sexual dysfunction (FSD). He attacked the companies for sponsoring seminars in which female sexual problems were renamed and redefined. A Sydney gynaecologist, Dr Jules Black, wrote to Moynihan agreeing that drug companies (aided by urologists) were "trying to create a new disease where one doesn't exist and are homing in on territory already well covered by serious sexual scientists for decades". ...
Helen O'Connell is a Melbourne urology surgeon who is surprised to find herself with an international reputation for unearthing the true glories of the clitoris. Five years ago, O'Connell published research on female sexual anatomy - involving dissection of female cadavers - which showed anatomy books don't do justice to the clitoris. Rather than simply the small visible "head", the clitoris is a much larger structure, which wraps around the vagina and urethra and includes a mass of erectile tissue that, like the penis, swells with blood when aroused. O'Connell has been working this year with colleagues in Michigan to study magnetic resonance images of the female pelvis.
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