Jessica Pin
2 min readDec 2, 2018

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This just isn’t how people work. Most people don’t get outraged by anything that doesn’t directly affect them. Most people will go to nearly absurd lengths to justify that the status quo is right and just, no matter what it may be.

Consider that most women not only are not outraged that the neural anatomy of the clitoris is omitted from OB/GYN literature. Most actually do not care at all.

Shouldn’t it outrage women that female sexual medicine isn’t based in a reasonable level of understanding of anatomy and physiology?

Shouldn’t it outrage women that, when it comes to female genital cosmetic surgeries, the standard of care is lower than for surgeries on noses, ears, eyelids, etc? When it comes to the vulva, professional organizations sanction surgeons doing surgeries they are not trained to do on anatomy they don’t know.

Shouldn’t it outrage women that the anatomy of the clitoris is never shown in remotely comparable depth to that of the penis? Shouldn’t it outrage them that, though the nerves of the clitoris are just as easy to dissect as those of the clitoris, almost no one bothers? Consider that a harmed patient (me), has to push for the first peer reviewed study to actually show these nerves (not published yet).

It outages me because my clitoris was denervated due to pervasive ignorance of vulvar anatomy.

But the sad truth is people, women included, do not care about what doesn’t affect them. How much do you care about systemic medical negligence where vulvar anatomy and sexual function is concerned? If you don’t have a problem that has caused this to affect you, my guess is not a lot.

People care about their own interests.

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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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