Subdeacon Joe Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 How could this have been overlooked? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-did-scientists-wait-so-long-to-study-the-snake-clitoris-180981750/ "The first attempted description of hemiclitores in lizards and snakes dates all the way back to 1886, when they were described as little more than “shallow invaginations” on the reptiles. Decades of silence followed, even as biologists continued to pontificate on the significance of hemipenes in male lizards and snakes, closely related reptiles collectively called squamates. A 2014 review of studies focused on animal genitals, for example, found that researchers focused on male genital anatomy alone in more than half of the sample studies between 1989 and 2013, with less than 20 percent considered female genital anatomy alone during the same period. Even more recently, less than a decade ago, biologists continued to insist that the hemiclitores of female lizards and snakes served little to no function, just as experts on human anatomy long ignored the clitoris and assumed that whatever biological relevance it has is secondary to cisgender men’s anatomy. As University of Adelaide biologist Megan Folwell and colleagues noted in an Integrative and Comparative Biology paper last year, however, the anatomy and behavior of male snakes is only half the story—if even that. " Shocking! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 What would lead to anyone even considering this subject? 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot, SASS #13748 Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 Imagine going through life explaining how you got your doctorate and that your thesis was on snake clitorises and reptile vaginas. Doctoral Thesis Title: “How the cold blooded have hot sex?” 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 9 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: What would lead to anyone even considering this subject? Probably a closet Ophidiophile. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 Youse guys is weird. I like that. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 I was just skimming that article that Joe posted, when I get down near the bottom and I see the phrase "cis-gendered men". That's when I realized that the article had been written by a total flipping moron, and I was so glad that I had not actually read it. 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 Haven't seen those terms since a reptile class at Texas Tech where one task was to prepare museum specimens. Asthe hemipenes is of taxonomic importance the organ was everted so that, presumably, a taxonomist could examine them at later dates. There, I confessed. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 So now female snakes and lizards will feel empowered, probably get to vote, break glass ceilings, etc. I kinda feel sorry for the males. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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