The organ
has indeed gone throug 
h several phases, a period of scientific progress.
h several phases, a period of scientific progress.
1 - In XVIe century, the discovery
In 1558, it
is the great discovery. The anatomist Colombo speaks, for the first time, of
the clitoris. It essentially describes its ‘erogenous function’. "We have to wait
until 1600 for the first graphic representation, it was already very close to
reality, we could see the glans, the body and the two pillars.
2-
1850, the big step
In 1850, the
studies of the anatomist Georg LudwigKobelt are published in French.
There are
great discoveries on the clitoris: the vestibular bulbs, . "He also
understood, following the nerves, that the clitoris grouped a very large amount
of nerve endings," adds Jean-Claude Piquard.
In medical
writings published in the XIXe century, the sexologists greets a great knowledge
of the organ. "He was known and recognized as an organ of female
pleasure." At the time, female "sexual spasms" are considered
necessary for increasing fertility .
3-1880 The
tumble :
Only around
1880, medicine discovered that procreation is linked to the meeting between the
sperm and the egg, and that the egg depends on the menstrual cycle, not at all
female pleasure .
4-The
slow understanding, until 2017
It is the
Australian urologist Helen O'Connell who comes to break the omerta, in 1998.
She decides to publish a detailed drawing of the clitoris, which one can
observe here.
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