Here's something I was reading the other day I thought was cool ( I didn't write this)


my clitoris

I love my clitoris. I just appreciate its clitoral nature. There aren't really any qualities that I am aware of that make a clitoris better or worse. They are not supposed to be a certain colour or size or sensitivity; they are just good. I like that.

I say clitoris like "KLIT-o-riss," although I know people who say "kli-TOR-iss." My way seems easier to say (to me) but I don't know whether either way is the decided right way to pronounce the word.

I mostly use the whole word, but sometimes say "clit," especially when referring to piercings. "Clit" seems hipper, but it is hard to sound uptight when willing to refer to a clitoris in the first place. I think I just like the "lit" syllable, despite the fact that with the exception of lit itself, most -lit words have weird sexual connotations (clit, slit, split...).

Lately I've been finding out all kinds of clitoral anatomy, just by accident. Junior high school sex education taught me where my clitoris was (the top structure between my labia, with a little hood of pink skin over it), but only made reference to it being a small, highly sensitive nub of flesh.

While reading about masturbation using vaginal muscles in an old Germaine Greer article in The Madwoman's Underclothes, I discovered that the clitoris has an extensive internal shaft that is something like 7cm (about 3 inches) long. More recently, while flipping through a book on g-spots, I found a diagram showing this internal part of the clitoris as forked. Forked! Apparently it straddles the urethral sponge tissue, which swells during arousal.

Forked!

This forking makes sense if you think of the general female genital area, which has a split down the middle. Where men have a single scrotum with a seam down the middle, femmes have two labia, and a a split shaft for the clitoris, although the glans or head is still single.

As far as I know, the whole clitoris is erectile, and swells up when it is aroused. I very much like the fact that my clitoris has a head and a tiny little (external) shaft. I can barely see my wee shaft, even with the hood pulled back out of the way, but it can be felt under the skin when it is excited and swollen up.

The head of my clitoris apparently has as many nerve endings as the head of a penis. Both of these organs develop from the same bud of tissue in embryos. The glans tissue becomes either a glans clitoris or a glans penis. I don't know where I pick up all these tidbits about embryonic stem tissue.

I find that touching my clitoris directly is uncomfortable and makes me cringe. It is too sensitive, what with all the nerves. It is better to rub it through its little hood, through my labia or some other cushioning, or to simply move the tissue around it and let it get touched that way. Also, I find that stimulating the base of it (the shaft!) can be more pleasant than going for the head. Of course, it is so compact that these distinctions are hard to make. Also I think that touching any part of the clitoris tends to put something in contact with the rest of the organ, whether it is the object doing the touching or whether it is skin that got caught up in the adventure.

Stimulating my clitoris the right way can make me aroused, but I think it is easier to be good to my clitoris when I am already aroused because of some other activity. Any kind of rubbing or poking at my clitoris with a dry object like a finger will likely be uncomfortable. It is better to get things wet or let them wet themselves before undertaking any manual stimulation. Also, my clitoris doesn't need to be touched to become erect and excited, although it generally has to be stimulated somehow for me to have an orgasm.

I don't think too much about my clitoris; I mostly just appreciate it along with the rest of my vagina. I probably mention it more often than the other parts, because it is the only part I tend to anthropomorphisize (it's the little shaft, it makes it seem like a peg person). I have never wanted to change anything about my clitoris, or had any concept of how it related to other clitorises. It seems like they are too small to have any really noticeably variation, but I don't know for sure.

This whole size issue only occurred to me as I was reading a personal account of a gender reassignment surgery where the author, Paula, "requested a large clitoris." I had never thought about the size of a clitoris being important, but then I realised that if you were making a clit out of the relatively less sensitive glans of a penis, you might want to conserve as many nerves as possible. Then I got all fascinated with making vaginas out of penis flesh, and which parts would get made into what. It's the embryonic stem tissue all over again!
[This message was edited Mon Mar 31 16:48:54 PST 2003 by DigitalLisa]

Oh my
That's too long for me to read. but I know one thing is for sure, you do love your clitoris.

For further reading on the vagina:

http://www.myvag.net/clitoris.shtml

Credit where credit is due and all that.

the almighty button

smile... 8)

IceNine said:

Do you guys read... look what I post at the top

DigitalLisa said:

Your a little freak aint ya?

My secret

ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY CLITORIS!

LaVisHh said:

Paisley said:

Lisa, well I'll be goddamn girl, yer feeling a little glowy eh?

Blackcat said:

2 silly... Once again I didn't write this It's something I came across , could relate too and thought it was cool 2 share
[This message was edited Mon Mar 31 16:30:52 PST 2003 by DigitalLisa]

I have a headache from just reading that.

althom said:

AWWW you poor thang! :LOL:

y'all r lazy I swear, if it was about the penis everybody would read it

DigitalLisa said:

No, it's too long to read!

DigitalLisa said:

i read it!

i should give my clit a little treat...sumfin 2 make it throb...diggin thru my prince collection

very interesting reading...

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Good Ideal

DigitalLisa said:

THE PENIS!



Now that would be interesting.

DigitalLisa said:

yeah! now, what should i play...

althom said:

wee-wees, ho-hum

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Rick James

DigitalLisa said:

that'd make my clit run and hide! i want it 2 throb, dammit!!!

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

2 silly

DigitalLisa said:

you should know by now that some people are too lazy to read long threads.

i did read it that's why it thought it sounded familiar.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

how about come or when we're dancing...

Phoenixxx said:

"come" = i don't have that album

"when we're dancing..." = nah, it don't do much 4 me.

hmm...prince album...runs 2 stereo, turns on "sexy dancer"...ohhh yeah

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Play Bambi ...