Sexual Anatomy:women Flashcards
why do women have lower sexual desire than man?
- do a lot of work (at home and outside of it) so they get tired
Heteronormativity Theory of Low Sexual
Desire in Women Partnered With Men
heteronomity:
-indequalitable divison of labor
-objetification
-caregiver-mother role to partner
**-gender nomes about sexual initiation
**
results in low sexual desire in women
how long is the average orgasm
30 sec
been reported 2min(vulva)
orgasm gap: man are more likely to experience orgasm then women
Anatomy
Us and Our Genitals
psychology?
- hang-ups, misunderstanding
- shame, embarrassment, and guilt
- massive diversity
- pornography(not very realistic)
Genital Self-image
Attitudes and feelings about own genitals
* How do people feel about their genitals?
most feel positive
but some have mix feelings
Important links to sexual well-being
* Comfort with partner(ex; oral sex)
* Labiaplasty(cosmetic sergery)
* Penis enlargement surgery
Anatomy – People with vulvas know where they are and what they do
External Genitals (Vulva)
* Mons Veneris
* Labia Majora
* Labia Minora
* Clitoris
* Vaginal Opening
* Vestibule
* Perineum
* Urethral Opening
* Hymen
Internal Genitals
* Vagina
* Cervix
* Uterus
* Fallopian Tubes
* Ovaries
Mons Veneris (Pubis)
the rounded fatty part of tissue where we have pubic hair
acts as a cushion during intercourse, sensitive to the touch it can bring plesure
Labia Majora
- large folds
- hide the other parts of the genitals
- protection of the genital
- can bring plesure
- suranded by public hair
Pubic Hair
3 theories why we have them
1.traps pheramones(attracts partners)
2.protection from friction during sex
3.shows maturity for possible partners
libia minora
- hairless lips that sit inside the labia majora
- join with the clitoral hood
- huge variation in size, shape, symmetry, and colour
- on average, 2 – 10 cm long, protrude 0.5 – 5 cm
- Bartholin glands: lumbrificate
- sexual plesure
Clitoris
* clitoral shaft → two corpora cavernosa (spongy tissue)
* glans →** part that is visible**
- clitoral hood → covers the exposed part of the shaft and most of the glans
- highly innervated
- shaft mostly hidden
- average size: 25mm long, 5mm wide, protrude 3- 10mm
- most sensitive part of the genitals
- bring plesure very important can bring orgasm
Female Genital Cutting/Mutilation
between infacy and 15 years old
Type 1: Clitordectomy
* removal of the clitoris
Type 2: Excision
* Partial or total removal of the clitoris and inner lips
Type 3:** Infibulation**
* entire removal of clitoris and vulva
* vaginal opening sutured together; small passage left for
menstruation
type 4:all others procedure- pircings
Labia Minora – Labiaplasty
- Most popular: labia minora
- other surgeries: vaginal tightening, liposuction of the mons veneris, unhooding the clitoris
Vulvar Vestibule
- area inside of the labia minora,
region around urethra and vaginal
opening - vulvodynia:cronic pain in this area
the pain can be proveked during sex for example or not provoked
16% suffer pain in this area for a couple months
Urethral Opening
- located above vaginal opening and
below the clitoris - for peeing
- urinary tract infections: prone to bacterial infections
due to proximity to vagina and anus
if infaction is untreated it can become :
- cystitis – inflammation of the bladder