Great clitoris

Takeaway: Once coaxed out to play, the clitoris can rise up, stand to attention and radiate pleasure through the entire body. For men who sleep with women, the clitoris has always been a bit of a riddle. When fully aroused, this area's desire for touch can be insatiable — and its owner can become insatiably orgasmic. In depth. If, at this point, you are thinking this will be a piece about how to get a woman into bed, turn back now.

After all, getting busy with your own bod can help you chuck unwanted inhibitions. Throw out any taboos or guilt surrounding masturbation right now. Pleasuring yourself has health benefits that go beyond the body — it can help untangle shame that affects confidence with yourself, partnered sex, or in a relationship. You may notice that stimulating in round patterns feels better than up and down, or that you enjoy stimulation using your inner labia over your clitoris rather than direct clitoral stimulation.

For the longest time I thought my oversized clitoris was wrong, abnormal and gross. The only organ in my body whose sole purpose was sexual pleasure was the thing bringing me the most displeasure. When I was a preteen, part of me thought I might be intersex.

T he results are finally in — a study in Clinical Anatomy has found that the clitoris does play an important role in reproduction, activating a series of brain effects taking as read, incidentally, that it is done right: so we are talking about a female orgasm, not about an ignored clitoris, sitting there, minding its own business. Those brain effects in brief: enhancement of vaginal blood flow, increased lubrication, oxygen and temperature, and an altered position of the cervix, which paradoxically slows down the sperm and improves their motility. From a lay perspective, this feels pretty uncontroversial.