Jessica Pin
1 min readJun 10, 2018

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Women who have undergone even the most extreme forms of female genital mutilation have the remaining clitoral body, bulbs, and crura to contribute to sexual pleasure.

The point of my article was to say understanding the anatomy is important. Women who have undergone FGM still have clitorises. Only the glans and maybe distal body of the clitoris are removed. My result is actually functionally equivalent to FGM involving the clitoris but not infibulation.

Women experience pleasure from sex primarily via their clitorises, whether they orgasm or not. I never equated voluntary and pleasurable consensual sexual activity with orgasm. But the clitoris is most responsible for pleasure during sex, and given that the primary reason women engage in sex is for pleasure, it is unlikely much sexual activity would occur consensually without pleasure being a motivator.

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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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