Jessica Pin
3 min readJul 22, 2019

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It’s funny how you think people don’t want to engage with me when I amassed 7200 followers in a matter of months and had thousands of upvotes on my answers — many of which you would actually be interested in and agree with if you actually read them.

I was getting 3 million views per month. That is the very definition of engagement and is more than many famous Quorans get.

Do you realize you are being emotional by objecting so much to the way I present information rather than simply evaluating the information I’m giving? You object to me contacting you here, but there’s no other way for me to contact you.

Also, I asked some valid questions that seemed to have made you uncomfortable. Where is the female POV? What does it mean that it doesn’t exist?

Also, would you honestly rather be raped than have your clitoris mutilated in a surgery performed without your consent? And why? I don’t see how a one time traumatic event resulting in no permanent physical damage could possibly be worse than a traumatic event resulting in permanent physical damage.

And if you can’t handle this question, that is because you are being emotional rather than logical. You are conforming, to a T, to the very stereotypes you object to. Your emotions shouldn’t get in the way of simply answering a question. “I can’t answer that because it’s too offensive” and “you can’t have that subjective opinion about your own experiences because it’s too offensive” are really emotional statements. You see? A logical person would just explain their point of view without any offense being relevant.

Do I get to be offended that many women clearly think rape is worse than FGM? Why or why not? I was not the one who made the first statement about which is worse. My assertion that fgm is worse was a response to a woman saying rape is worse. Why am I not a protected victim in this case? Why do I not get to be triggered and have everyone who disagrees with me banned?

Also, most experts on female sexual function and dysfunction do say that men have higher libidos. Desire issues are so much more common in women that drug companies set out to make a female viagra for women’s brains rather than genitals. Maybe this is due to physical problems getting misdiagnosed as desire issues. Certainly if a desire issue arises from a loss of clitoral function, for example, the patient will be dismissed as emotional and not properly diagnosed or treated in most cases.

Again, funding isn’t necessary for OB/GYNs to take an interest in research that has been published and speak up about its omission from textbooks and curriculums. No one did that. Why do you think that is? Many OB/GYNs have told me its not relevant to their practice. Textbook authors have told me they don’t have room for it. Urologists have told be OB/GYNs aren’t interested. One even said, “How can we get then to know the nerves when we can’t even get them to inspect patients for clitoral adhesions?” She send me a long message about how frustrated she has been. Another sent me an article about the “psychomorphology of the clitoris” and said she thinks it’s hard because people are just uncomfortable with it.

There are no other cases where basic anatomy gets excluded like this. It actually means something.

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Jessica Pin
Jessica Pin

Written by Jessica Pin

Getting clitoral neural anatomy included in OB/GYN textbooks. It was finally added for the first time in July 2019. BME/EE @WUSTL

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