It would also be good if textbooks could update constantly with new information. Consider that the innervation of the clitoris is never shown and described in OB/GYN textbooks. This isn’t because this anatomy hasn’t been researched. It actually is even shown in some general anatomy textbooks, but, rather than increasing in detail as you would expect, it disappears as you move into OB/GYN literature.

Urology textbooks do include coverage of the innervation of the clitoris. This has occurred because all research on the clitoris has been published in urology journals or journals of sexual medicine. There is no referencing of this research in OB/GYN. They simply are not aware it exists.

One textbook on the clitoris, containing detailed photos of cadaver dissections never shown before, even came out in 2014. Until this year, after I, a patient, started spamming people with it, it had never been cited in a single English-language medical journal. I am still trying to tweet it at all the OB/GYNs on Twitter but most of them seem to assume they know what they don’t know or are simply disinterested.