The Internal Clitoris, which wasn't properly mapped until 2009 (2011)
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“When I returned to France to treat genital mutilation, I
was amazed that they were never tried. The medical
literature tells us the truth about our contempt for
women. For three centuries, there are thousands of
references to penile surgery, nothing on the clitoris,
except for some cancers or dermatology -and nothing to
restore its sensitivity. The very existence of an organ
of pleasure is denied, medically. Today, if you look at
the anatomy books that all surgeons have, you will find
two pages above. There is a real intellectual excision.“
The fact of the matter is, though, that a body part crucial to a woman's sexual pleasure wasn't even properly documented until 2009, while a pill released solely to make men have more sex was put on the market 10 years earlier.[0] In a world where 140 million women have experienced genital mutilation,[1] and women are still shamed for having any sort of sexual experience[2] to the point where politicians[3] and even pharmacists[4] want to ban birth control, there's no way that's not indicative of a problem our culture still has regarding female sexuality.
[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sildenafil
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slut-shaming
[3]: http://www.care2.com/causes/after-banning-almost-all-abortio...
[4]: http://www.prevention.com/health/healthy-living/new-birth-co...
Edit: Of course this story disappears off the front page. Oh sure, an article about a 1912 school test and yet another log on the NSA hate fire sit up at #1 and #3 respectively, but God forbid someone posts about female genitalia. Really just proving the point.
If you want this problem to get better, it would help to blame the right thing, which is religion.
Saying it's the fault of religion doesn't help solve anything. It's individuals who decide to interpret the Bible in ways that harm women, just like other individuals can consider themselves Christian, or Muslim, or Jewish, and still support women's right to birth control.
And on what grounds are you going to claim that they should interpret their holy books differently?
There is only one valid, fundamental basis for making arguments one way or another, and that's reason. Religion is a systematic (albeit, potentially compartmentalized) rejection of reason.
Fortunately, going by reason, we can establish (with significant effort) that it is in everyone's interest to recognize certain rights for human beings, and we can institute governments to protect those rights. And, we can establish (with some effort) that hurting women is destructive and evil and malevolent.
Trying to argue from any other perspective is just saying, "It should be this way, just because."
Interesting material, though.
EDIT: And by hack, I mean get at its fundamentals, not the more archaic meaning of hack (color me embarrassed by insensitive language)
In the great tradition of Revenge of the Nerds (1984) [1], we have been hacking the clitoris for a long time.
I especially am a fan of this: https://github.com/scanlime/arduino-lelo-remote
Hack the Clitoris!
In which the protagonist commits rape by fraud, dressing up in a costume of Betty's boyfriend, then having sex with her under false pretenses? Probably not the best movie to shine as a star of anything good sexually. (The peeping tom crap too)
It's my interpretation that the protagonist in question provides oral sex to the lady and stimulated her clitoris in ways her jock boyfriend never thought or knew how to. It's my understanding she definitely enjoyed that. It is also my understanding that she was not too pleased to find out who was behind the mask at first.
It's further my understanding that Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987) [1] intimates that they then became something of an "item" (in today's terms that means they dated!).
Finally, it's my understanding that it's a fun movie and not a manual for life.
Her reaction and enjoyment at a later time is immaterial: It's rape (or sexual assault, depending on jurisdiction) to have sex this way.
Rape and sexual assault are something you can pick out before you engage in them.
>it's a fun movie and not a manual for life.
It certainly can be a fun movie and have misguided lessons for people. Many old pieces of art do this, but are still enjoyable in other places. That said, the bad parts should still be pointed out clearly as bad, even if it taints enjoyable experiences of our youth. They aren't harmless. They normalize this crap and convince young fools this type of thing is fun instead of criminal.