Chapter Two: Women's bodies Flashcards
How many vaginas do kangaroos have?
Three
What is the vulva?
the female external genitalia
What is the pad of fatty tissue covered by skin and pubic hair?
The Mons
What is the labia?
two pairs of skin folds that extend down from the mons on either side of the vulva.
What is the labia majora (outer labia)?
padded with fatty tissue and are hairy on the surfaces nearest to the thighs.
What is labia minora (inner labia)?
two thin folds of hairless skin that lie between the two outer labia.
What is the vestibule?
the area encircled by the labia.
What is the process called Vasocongestion?
during sexual arousal the inner labia swell and darken as they fill with blood.
What is a labiaplasty?
plastic surgery to reduce their inner labia or make them more symmetrical.
what is a glans on female genitalia?
the clitoris has a glans and erectile tissue that leads to erection in response to sexual arousal.
What is the crura?
the two corpora cavernosa of the clitoral shaft diverge from each other, forming the left and right crura.
What is the frenulum of the clitoris?
the underside of the clitoral glans is attached to the underlying portion of the labia minora by a fold of erotically sensitive tissue.
What is the corpus spongiosum?
within the glans is a body called CS (‘spongy body’) comprised of erectile tissue - a system of vascular spaces that becomes engorged with blood during sexual arousal.
What is the corpus cavernosa?
the tissue within the clitoral shaft, it lies side by side.
Who founded the G-spot?
Ernst Grafenberg
What is the G-spot?
is hypothesized to be an area of heightened sensitivity to arousal located on the front wall of the vagina. the mechanism for orgasms through penetration of the vagina.
What is the FSFI?
the female sexual function scale that uses 19-item scale developed by Reed et al.
What is the key sensory nerve tissue associated with arousal in the human glans of the clitoris?
- the dorsal nerves of the clitoris, branches off the aforementioned pudendal nerve.
What are the Skene’s glands?
also known as the paraurethral or vestibular glands, homologous to the male prostate, are one of the many, many proposed physical identities of the g-spot and are key to female ejaculation. (not the same as squirting) * Zlatko Pastor and Roman Chmel
