The anatomy of the feminine orgasm is demonstrated in human anatomy books such as Standring, S. (2008) Gray’s Anatomy, although the topic of feminine orgasm is often ignored. It is essential for us to be aware of the related functions of the internal and external feminine genitalia. The function of feminine inner private parts is for reproduction while the external genitalia is for sexual satisfaction.
Despite our best efforts to rid them of imperfections, our bodies are never as perfect – or as symmetrical – as we might want them to be. Yet we almost all aspire towards some degree of perfection.
Every gym in the world operates on this tragic human aspiration. This is also why – in its quest for perfection – Christian dogma excludes the body and exalts the heavenly soul.
Sadly, however, for many of us, bodily imperfections are embarrassingly obvious. Two out of every three people you meet have one foot larger than the other, usually the right one. Everyone has a shoulder a bit higher than the other, too.
Things are no better internally. Inside, our lack of symmetry is so pronounced that – at least from a purely aesthetic standpoint – one might be inclined to declare the human anatomy hopelessly grotesque.
Because the heart is off-center, one lung is always bigger than its partner. Your diaphragm is lop-sided and your liver and stomach are unevenly situated right and left in your abdominal cavity, as well.
The same disproportions may be found in the contours of our faces. We remember this almost routinely when we have our photographs taken. We have a good angle we prefer to memorialize and a bad side we tend to forget.
Sometimes, the variances can be attributed to the ancient dance between evolution and heredity. Sometimes they are the product of sheer entropy. Other times it’s just a matter of moving more, moving differently, and ensuring a wider variety of motion and muscle use.
From whichever angle you might prefer, the wonders of the human form are as much bound up in exquisite freakishness as they are consistent.
Every Orgasm is Unique
So, in many ways, every woman who grew up being told she is a special little girl has been told the truth. While it might not always be the case that she is a more talented dancer than most, her body is certainly unique in other ways.
In fact, throughout the world, no two vaginas – and no two female orgasms – look the same, smell the same, or feel the same.
That is not to say that the universally diverse human homogeny excludes the male sex. The penis and the clitoris are one and the same, after all – or, at least, they start out that way in the womb.
Human sex cells do not begin to differentiate until about the sixth week of gestation. Years beyond that, the sexually mature male’s penis performs – we all hope – erotic, reproductive, and excretive functions.
Meanwhile, the clitoris performs only one special job: that of creating an erotic sensation, which – hopefully – leads to orgasm.
The popular scientific theory is that those blissful feminine eruptions are actually a fortunate consequence of biological homology.
That is, the pleasure a woman experiences during climax is a relic from that stage in fetal development in which the penis and clitoris were indistinguishable.
“Male ejaculation, with its close tie to orgasm, is crucial to reproduction,” says the sex educator and psychologist, Emily Nagoski. “As a result, orgasm is embedded on female sexual hardware, too.”
This is all, of course, mostly well-informed scientific speculation. In many ways, the exploration of that moist, private dominion between a woman’s legs is comparable to discovering faraway landscapes. In short, it can sometimes begin as an act of pursuing fanciful notions.
There are no fixed measures to that which we can immediately discover, either – only estimates, averages, and approximates.
The typical vagina is 7.5 to 10 centimeters long with a canal that can expand wide enough to accommodate the birthing of a child.
In its entirety, the clitoris may reach as many as seven centimeters in length, perhaps longer. The glans comprise between four and seven millimeters of the whole.
This superb daughter of sexual evolution brims with free nerve endings, thus allowing the most intense sensations.
What happens when a woman’s orgasm is as intricately fascinating and mysterious as everything else about the feminine erogenous landscape.
Exploring the Erogenous Zones
The Dutch anatomist, Regnier de Graaf, first described female ejaculation in the 17th-century. In so doing, he referred to an erogenous region in the vagina he associated with the male prostate.
De Graaf made his observations public at around the same time his compatriots were funding insane explorations into what was then largely unknown North America.
In 1950, the gynecologist Ernst Gräfenberg proposed that the location of de Graaf’s mysterious zone is somewhere inside the upper vaginal wall.
In 1981, a team of scientists from the US and Canada published a study proving de Graaf’s theory of female ejaculation. But the team coined the term G-spot after Gräfenberg.
Despite the discovery, there was much debate in the scientific community as to the actual existence and location of the G-spot until 2008. That year, a team at the University of L’Aquila finally found the fabled area on the front side of the vagina, not far from the belly button.
Today, we know the G-spot is part of the female clitoral network, right around the crura. This means that when you’re stimulating the G spot, you’re actually stimulating part of the clitoris, which is much larger than previous explorers believed.
More recent scientific expeditions have yielded a second erotic zone farther into the depths of the interior. The anterior fornix erogenous zone – or A-spot – is believed to increase lubrication and stimulate intense orgasmic contractions.
To find this tender bit of tissue, head north and up past the G-spot on the upper wall of the vagina toward the cervix says, Desmond Morris.
But, as with the rest of the female anatomy (and humanity at large, for that matter), variations are to be expected with every individual woman. B
But since both areas are close to each other, you can approximate the locations of both erogenous zones by using an index finger as a probing tool.
In Pursuit of Fanciful Notions
Gently insert your finger one or two inches inside the vagina and then curl upward toward the belly button. If you feel a penny-sized patch of spongy tissue, you have found the G-spot. From this much-storied pleasure promontory, push up inside another two or so inches to locate the A-spot.
That said, discovering the physical coordinates of feminine desire is no foolproof guarantee of an orgasm. The pleasure a woman derives from sex is always bound up with her personality, which is just as distinctive, unique, and intractably elusive as her body.
Quite simply put, the more closely we analyze her physical being, the more clearly we understand that the female orgasm is no boorish physiological reaction. Women, as most lovers discover early on, are infinitely more complex than that.
Rather, hers is a delicate compromise between muscle contractions and fantasy, between grotesque flesh and divine imagination, sweaty physical contact, and – dare we say it? – incalculable love.
The female orgasm is thus a bit like a mattress that can never be straightened. When we seek to correct one side of it, we may succeed only in disturbing the other.
Yet it is only in vigorous and repeated probing and correcting that we might – if we are lucky enough – stumble on that magic moment of perfection.
Now, is there any other pursuit on earth more fanciful than that?
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