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Invalidated site: The Guardian - The sole function of the clitoris is female orgasm. Is that why it?s ignored by medical science? Oct 22, 2026
Add new Web site: Live Science - In a 1st, scientists counted all 10,000 nerve fibers in the human clitoris. May 22, 2026
Add new Web site: Scholar Commons at Santa Clara University - Finding the Clitoris: Societal Clitoridectomies Created from Pushing (for) the G-spot in the 20th and 21st Centuries (PDF). Jan 01, 2026
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Anatomy of the Clitoris: Revision and Clarifications about the Anatomical Terms for the Clitoris Proposed (without Scientific Bases) by Helen O'Connell, Emmanuele Janni... Jun 21, 2025
Add new Web site: MSU Moorhead - Women and Their Clitoris: Personal Discovery, Signification, and Use (PDF). Mar 27, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC News - Don't know much about the clitoris? The International Cliteratti will help. Feb 15, 2025
Add new Web site: The Guardian - The sole function of the clitoris is female orgasm. Is that why it?s ignored by medical science? Aug 02, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - The truth about the clitoris: why it's not just built for pleasure. Jun 18, 2024
Add new Web site: Gresham College - A History of the Penis and the Clitoris. May 08, 2024
Add new Web site: Arizona State University - Embryo Project Encyclopedia - �Anatomy of the Clitoris� (2005) by Helen E. O�Connell, Kalavampara V. Sanjeevan, and John M. Hutson. Mar 28, 2024
Add new Web site: The New York Times - Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don�t Doctors Study It? Jan 03, 2024
Add new Web site: University of California, San Francisco - Department of Urology - Development of the human penis and clitoris. Nov 09, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - The Clitoris - An Appraisal of its Reproductive Function During the Fertile Years: Why Was It, and Still Is, Overlooked in Accounts of Female Sexual Arousal (PDF). Nov 07, 2023
Add new Web site: WebMD - Anatomy, Function, Care, and Conditions of the Clitoris. Jul 08, 2023
Add new Web site: Verywell Health - Where Is the Clit? An Organ for Sexual Pleasure. Mar 31, 2023
Add new Web site: Cleveland Clinic - Clitoris. Jan 05, 2023
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Anatomy of the Clitoris: Revision and Clarifications about the Anatomical Terms for the Clitoris Proposed (without Scientific Bases) by Helen O'Connell, Emmanuele Janni... Oct 25, 2022
Add new Web site: Healthline - The Ultimate Guide to Clitoral Stimulation. Aug 22, 2022
Corrected display issue. Feb 06, 2020
Clarified information on the anatomy of the clitoris. Sep 16, 2013
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Clitoris. Nov 20, 2011
Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Vagina and Clitoris. Nov 20, 2011
Media added. Jul 03, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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