48 pointsby Vaslo3 hours ago8 comments
  • thtsntmyjob31 minutes ago
    Smooth muscle contractions involve the same nerves and muscles in orgasm as in childbirth contractions.

    Uterine contraction > Labour and pregnancy, In orgasm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uterine_contraction

    Birthgasm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthgasm

    In terms of evolutionary origin and adaptation and natural selection (mutation, crossover, selection), all amniotes (reptiles, amphibians, mammals) have a clitoris.

    Animal clitoris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_clitoris

  • 0x4e2 hours ago
    This article feels like it's full of no big mystery being unlocked other than the clitoris non-sexual stimulation being used as pain treatment during labor, but I'm sure not as effective as just some potent pain killer.
    • ptsnevesan hour ago
      I find it a mystery why so many nerves are there, as well as why they were positively selected for. Enough so that human women have them with huge variation in shapes and sizes but they are there.

      The idea of it being a pain killer for birth but requiring a vibrator is interesting, because I don’t think any culture developed clitoris stimulation as a child birth helper. If it did help I would expect it to change birth outcomes and thus being a source of positive selection.

      The only thing that bothered me is that gender affirming is in fact an amputation, because they gave their clitorises to science. It even took me a while to understand what the term “gender affirming surgery” meant.

      • 0x4e30 minutes ago
        Good point on the first paragraphs. The why seems to be that it’s mostly about pleasure.

        Although not essential for survival, pleasure seems to be programmed in us as a species, so the body evolving this to give women the balance of a complex pleasure organ to make up for the pain — in so many levels — they go through during birth.

        So maybe nature was like “they suffer a lot during birth and pregnancy, let’s give them a clitoris that gives them REALLY good pleasure that the male counterpart won’t be able to ever experience or comprehend.”

      • unsnap_bicepsan hour ago
        I thought that the clitoris contains all the nerve endings that would be in the male penis, just in the smaller area vs being spread out over the entire penis and penis nerves are selected for to encourage male mating.
        • hagbard_can hour ago
          In a penis the nerve endings are also mostly in the glans (head) so the difference isn't that big. Most of the parts of these two organs match somehow, just shifted around a bit.
    • NDlurker2 hours ago
      Right, mostly it's about how there are a bunch of nerves and stimulating those nerves leads to orgasm. Who doesn't know that?
      • 0x4e36 minutes ago
        I think you’d be surprised by how many people just see the vagina as a whole you stick a penis in. But agree with this not being a big mystery being unlocked.
  • thendrill2 hours ago
    Summary: men were so bad at foreplay that evolution made an external user interface for women to prepare the system for successful mating....
  • paaloeyean hour ago
    location?
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    • comrade12342 hours ago
      I think that there are maybe more slang words for clitoris than there is for penis but I'm probably wrong. Maybe someone can list them all?