Ode to the Clit

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This will be a quick post because I'm swamped in my day job, and I'm only about 75% done with the journal article review I was hoping to finish by today, but I really want to get something up tonight.

However, just because it's quick doesn't mean you won't enjoy it. It's a music video about the clit. If you haven't already seen it, then this will be a treat. If you have already watched, then please enjoy again.

It's sparkly, weird, and has lots of clit and masturbation love, so it gets a thumbs up from me. Just the simple fact that this is all about the clit is important because we hear so very little about it compared to the vagina penis and balls. We don't hear the word enough, and it's not involved in discussion about female orgasm and sex enough, so the more times it's said, the more people who hear it, the better.

I will, because my whole thing with this blog is to get real detailed about critiquing this stuff, mention that everything in this video about the clit and orgasm is not completely grounded in scientific fact. In the Freud section of this song, there is an insinuation that orgasms caused 'vaginally' or 'inside the hole' are actually caused because the inner clitoris was being stimulated presumably through the vaginal wall (so it's all clitoral!). Problem is, a 'vaginal' orgasm (orgasm caused by stimulation inside the vagina with no additional outer clitoral stimulation) has never been observed or recorded in scientific literature. So, the idea that the inner parts of the clit are responsible for this thing that has never been observed is just a completely unvalidated hypothesis.

I think it's important to mention this because all-orgasms-are-clitoral-orgasms is kind of a popular mantra in lady-gasms talk these past few years. While on the surface it sounds about right, what it is actually doing is lumping the idea of orgasms-from-stimulation-inside-the-vagina into clitorally-stimulated-orgasms because of some hypotheses that the inner clitoral legs get stimulated through the vaginal wall during intercourse, and that's just plain not based in sound science . In fact, I think it hurts the quest for orgasm equality because it continues to normalize the idea that women could easily come from P in V, when in fact that's not the case, and we don't even know if women do orgasm from stimulation inside the vagina....but scientists and sex advisers, and feminists should be debating and investigating this, so I don't love that it gets silenced and whitewashed over by saying all orgasms are clitoral.

All that said, though, I still have lots of love for this video, and I respect any effort to get more respect for the clit and normalization of female masturbation. Plus, it's just fun. Enjoy.