I’d like to recommend to everyone who has a vulva (or loves someone who has a vulva) to run, don’t walk, and get the book Women’s Anatomy of Arousal by Sheri Winston.
Winston’s book was honored as the best of the year by AASECT, the American Association of Sexuality Educators. She deserves it – Sherri seems to have found and returned to all of us our clits.
The tiny head of the clitoris, says Winston, is only “the tip of the volcano.” Winston explains that “central to women’s extraordinary, complex and elegant arousal system is …the erectile network” including the clitoral head (mons), shaft, clitoral legs and vestibular bulbs.
Why don’t we all know this? Winston explains in the portion of her book entitled “A Brief History of Genital Amnesia and Female Sexuality.” Before the patriarchal culture had a hold on Western civilization, women were considered very lusty people. The anatomy and medical texts of the time included our proper body parts. With the advent of Puritanism, women were idealized as chaste and virginal. “By the 1800’s,” says Winston, “all parts responsible for arousal and orgasm were gone from the pictures and texts in many anatomy books, while the reproductive structures remained.”
Out-fucking-rageous.
Let’s increase the cliteracy of the world. Get the book and share it widely!