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The Sex Talk You Never Had With Your Parents
by Jason Kehe and Katie M. Palmer
Science Date of Publication: 02.18.15.
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It’s time for a talk. The talk. Yep, S-E-X. Sure, your parents probably busted out the anatomy books when you were a kid. That goes there, those do that, etc. (Yuck!) And you may have taken some sex ed classes in school, or had frank discussions with your doctor. But here’s a dirty secret: When it comes to human sexual anatomy—the wellspring of civilization—there’s a shocking amount people don’t know. Not just civilians. Scientists!
Part of it’s practical: Sex is really hard to study. Even today, with sensors and MRIs showing us what goes on when we’re getting it on, sterile labs aren’t exactly the coziest places in the world to examine our bodies. But much of the problem is also cultural: Until the Kinsey Institute, broaching the subject of sex at all was almost universally taboo. In other words, we humans don’t know our bodies as well as we think. (Remember Sophia’s very educational vagina lesson on Orange is the New Black?)
So we decided to own up to our igannance—and take it one step further: We’re a dude delving into the depths of the vagina and a lady sizing up the science of the penis. There’s more to anatomy than gyno charts and tutorials—we discovered a bunch of myth-busting, pleasure-validating developments in the field. And we want to talk about them.
Jason Kehe: So yes, we’re proceeding from the assumption that we don’t know much about human sexual anatomy—but let’s perhaps qualify that by considering this: Is it actually the case that we basically grasp the penis, but the real mystery is the (uh, largely ungraspable) vagina?
Katie Palmer: Sure, there are still people arguing—scientists arguing, in the medical literature—over the most basic parts of the female anatomy. There’s one father-daughter research team out of Italy that recently published that the female vaginal orgasm is a myth, because the G-spot doesn’t exist. Which has problems on so many levels.
CONTINUE READING: www.stumbleupon.com/su/2BxgRU/
The Sex Talk You Never Had With Your Parents
by Jason Kehe and Katie M. Palmer
Science Date of Publication: 02.18.15.
Getty Images
It’s time for a talk. The talk. Yep, S-E-X. Sure, your parents probably busted out the anatomy books when you were a kid. That goes there, those do that, etc. (Yuck!) And you may have taken some sex ed classes in school, or had frank discussions with your doctor. But here’s a dirty secret: When it comes to human sexual anatomy—the wellspring of civilization—there’s a shocking amount people don’t know. Not just civilians. Scientists!
Part of it’s practical: Sex is really hard to study. Even today, with sensors and MRIs showing us what goes on when we’re getting it on, sterile labs aren’t exactly the coziest places in the world to examine our bodies. But much of the problem is also cultural: Until the Kinsey Institute, broaching the subject of sex at all was almost universally taboo. In other words, we humans don’t know our bodies as well as we think. (Remember Sophia’s very educational vagina lesson on Orange is the New Black?)
So we decided to own up to our igannance—and take it one step further: We’re a dude delving into the depths of the vagina and a lady sizing up the science of the penis. There’s more to anatomy than gyno charts and tutorials—we discovered a bunch of myth-busting, pleasure-validating developments in the field. And we want to talk about them.
Jason Kehe: So yes, we’re proceeding from the assumption that we don’t know much about human sexual anatomy—but let’s perhaps qualify that by considering this: Is it actually the case that we basically grasp the penis, but the real mystery is the (uh, largely ungraspable) vagina?
Katie Palmer: Sure, there are still people arguing—scientists arguing, in the medical literature—over the most basic parts of the female anatomy. There’s one father-daughter research team out of Italy that recently published that the female vaginal orgasm is a myth, because the G-spot doesn’t exist. Which has problems on so many levels.
CONTINUE READING: www.stumbleupon.com/su/2BxgRU/