Let’s talk about the Inner Clitoris
Why is the inner clit’s part in penetrative orgasms not discussed in the movie?
Because the inner clit doesn’t have a part in penetrative orgasms. OR maybe I should say this: by the time this movie was finished, the inner clitoral structure had not yet taken the place of the G-Spot in the social consciousness as the mechanism for vaginal/penetrative orgasms, so I just didn’t pay it attention in that capacity (and I shouldn’t have to now either - it’s quite frustrating actually - like we’ve gone backwards).
Neither the G-spot nor the inner clitoral structure have evidence to back up the idea that it can be stimulated to orgasm, but man oh man, in the last 10 years, the intensity that went into building up the g-spot as a vag-gasm button have moved swiftly and furiously to doing the same for various areas of the ‘inner clitoral structure'.
I assure you, despite popular discussion, the inner parts of the clitoris are neither newly discovered nor shown to be responsible for orgasms. No mind-blowing discoveries about the female orgasm have been uncovered in the last 10 years…not even in the last 40 years. We as a culture have just been ignoring and discounting the very basic information that already exists, so it seems like we don’t know much about it. Thus, when there’s some ridiculous, unevidenced assertion about how lady-gasms happen, like attributing it to the inner clitoral structure or the G-spot or the vaginal canal itself (as was the case pre-80’s), it’s gobbled up because we’re so starved for sensible, accurate information.
One could take all the arguments in this movie made against the G-Spot as vag-gasm giver and just swap it for ‘internal clitoral structure’ and it’d work about as well. I love that we’ve moved away as a culture from understanding the G-spot in this way, but I really hate that the inner clitoral structure became the new scapegoat. Pinning penetrative orgasms on the inner clitoris is as desperate and baseless as pinning it on the G-spot or pinning it on the vaginal canal itself - which was the scapegoat before the G-Spot became popular.
Anyway, I would love to add something about the inner G-spot onto the end of the movie someday because I’d hate for the information in Science, Sex, and the Ladies to be marginalized just because someone has a completely understandable, but incorrect idea that there’s new scientific information that can finally explain vaginal orgasms (again- there isn’t).
I’d include a good ol’ debunking of the idea that recent scientific advancements have somehow ‘discovered’ the inner parts of the clit and that those inner parts are now understood to be the reason for ‘penetrative orgasms’ (or what people often call ‘vaginal orgasms’). None of that is accurate, but in the last few years it’s become a (inaccurate) part of the female orgasm storyline.
Links for more detailed discussions surround how the inner clitoral structure isn’t responsible for vaginal/penetrative orgasms:
First and foremost orgasms caused from stimulation inside the vagina don’t seem to actually exist because there has literally never been physical evidence of this in all of scientific literature - and not for lack of trying. So, riddle me this - if a vaginal/penetrative orgasm hasn’t even been identified and may not even exist, how exactly could anyone be able to identify the cause of it? Anyway, read more about that HERE.
There are outright statements and lots of insinuations that the inner parts of the clit were only recently discovered and that this recent discover finally can explain where vaginal orgasms come from. No part of that is true. Here’s my summary of the Scientific Journal article that is often attributed to the ‘discovery’ of the inner clit in 1998. I also talk about all the wildly unevidenced insinuations from highly respected people and outlets about the inner-clit as vag-gasm giver. Check it out HERE.