Discoveries like these can just be very interesting (two clitorises certainly seems pretty unusual!), but making it political is absurd.
Discoveries like these can just be very interesting (two clitorises certainly seems pretty unusual!), but making it political is absurd.
It's emblematic of the fact that female bodies are woefully under-studied. There still aren't any treatments for menstrual cramps; all you get is ordinary painkillers. Women are routinely excluded from studies, partly to protect their fertility (as if men aren't also fertile) and partly to remove a variable -- and the results will be applied to women without ever studying that variable[2].
So yeah, getting somebody to study the evolutionary history of the clitoris is kind of a big feminist deal. It is political, because women have been excluded in so many ways for so long.
[1] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/why-is-the-clit-so...
What do you mean by this? It takes 2 people of the opposite sex to make a baby.
That’s kind of suggestive.