Most also ASSUME the dorsal nerves terminally arborize prior to the glans of the clitoris, even when I’m showing them cadaver dissections. Many seem to assume that knowing detailed anatomy of the clitoris is irrelevant to OB/GYN practice, while doing surgeries that put this anatomy at risk.

It seems like OB/GYNs lack sufficient education and training in a number of areas. It seems like perhaps they are spread too thin. Could separating OB and GYN be a solution? Why were they ever combined?

Alternatively, is there a problem with OB/GYN culture that makes them especially defensive of the status quo and resistant to change? I’ve noticed, in trying to improve physician education in clitoral anatomy, urologists, plastic surgeons, and even members of specialties for whom this information is irrelevant are more receptive.

I find it bizarre that misogyny seems to be perpetuated in a field now dominated by women. There is a lot of sexism in OB/GYN textbooks, just in how women are approached. To me, they read as if they were written in Gilead, or at least decades behind mainstream culture. It is hard to understand why this is the case when there are so many women in the field.