Things certainly have improved, but I’ve had some difficulty getting Wikipedia editors to remove the incorrect claim that the clitoral glans is 1.5–2 cm long. Then again, I suppose it shows we have come a long way if I’m complaining about this.

Clitoral neurovascular anatomy is still largely absent though, which is scary because most cosmetic genital surgeons perform surgery without consideration of the dorsal nerve of the clitoris. However, Williams Gynecology and Williams Obstetrics were updated to include some coverage of this anatomy in 2016. And Netter was updated this year. But this is an unreasonable timeline considering doctors have been doing female genital cosmetic surgeries for 4 decades, and the first modern adult study containing mention of the dorsal nerve was published around 2005.

At least as of 2007, porn was a better resource for understanding normal vulvar anatomy than Wikipedia or any medical sources. When OB/GYNs were telling me I looked normal with my labia minora completely amputated, it was porn that made me realize this was not a normal aesthetic at all. Many of the women in porn actually look like the before pictures on labiaplasty surgeons websites.

It’s easy to market an ideal of invisible genitalia in a culture where we don’t really even acknowledge vulvas exist in colloquial language.