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Until 2009, the human clitoris was an absolute mystery

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9 pointsjseliger8 comments

Link to the original article that this is based on, which is much more informative:

http://blog.museumofsex.com/the-internal-clitoris

What is this stupid clickbait doing here? Even the article itself contradicts its own headline.

As I clicked comments on this article I felt anxious of whether I'd see some stupid derogatory comment — and there it is. The female sex organs weren't fully explored until 2009, but full acceptance of the exploration of the female body on HN is yet to come. So congratulations, you just made HackerNews feel as progressive as the locker room at the warehouse I worked at in my teens.

Whatever. The article says that they had medically imaged them in an aroused state as early as the late 90s, which contradicts the claim of the headline. That's all - and I explained that in my post.

I have no objection to exploration of the female body and was sufficiently interested in the subject beforehand to find the claim that this part of it 'was an absolute mystery until 2009' to be nonsensical.

"In fact, according to Ms. M, it wasn't until 2009 that researchers Odile Buisson and Pierre Foldés produced the first complete three-dimensional sonography of the stimulated clitoris, similar to the one shown here, depicted in profile."

Sensationalist wording is the hall mark of most journalism and isn't all that bad — it makes people read your stuff, and is used by a _lot_ of blog posts making their way to HN.(Hours are bullshit, Disrupting X, Why I hate Technology Y, etc.)

I saw that too, but mentioning the most recent development doesn't obviate the knowledge that came before that. IMHO sensationalism is that bad, and there's already too much of it on HN. but I don't think you should have been downvoted for expressing your opinion, so I gave you a vote despite disagreeing completely with you.

It's still a mystery to me.

Obvious giggles aside, this is well worth a read.

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