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Monologue du clitoris | Odile Fillod | TEDxParis


[Applause]
how about anatomy schematics
genitals omitting an erectile organ
about ten centimeters long and that
how about an education to the
sexuality omitting to talk about the organ
which is the primary source of pleasure
sexual in half of humanity
it would not be great we agree but
yet that’s what we still do
today massively with an organ
female this organ is the clitoris
then there is a simple reason for that
that it only serves the sexual pleasure of
women and that this pleasure has no
impact on reproduction
when it was well established towards the end
of the 19th century and well there knowledge
anatomical and functional clitoris
which was already acquired at the time for
the essential has been relegated to the background
Yes , that’s the sexual pleasure of
women do not care and one from then
that they performed their function
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pass on this knowledge is
become useless and even embarrassing since
talk about the clit is like venturing
in the field
morally sliding sexual pleasure
disconnected from reproduction
it’s embarrassing too because it leaves
see how much women’s sexuality
can emancipate itself from the satisfaction of
desires of men
so it’s also a social context
heteronormative and inegalitarian that makes
that the clitoris remains unrecognized
problem is that reciprocally
this lack of knowledge leaves room for
misconceptions that supports the
sexism with its procession of inequalities and
other adverse consequences
already just ignoring that the
clitoris and the penis are the organs
counterparts from the phallus in Brionnais
but that leaves room for the idea that
our sex would develop either in peace nor
either in vagina gold on this basis it
can be tempting to distinguish
symbolically men by the
possession of an organ that would be absent
in women
it is also tempting to see the sex of
women as an empty or receptacle
intended for skis would fill them
naturally
the shape of their sexual organs
rendering is in essence receptive rather
active would destine them to the reception of the
desire of the other
then ignored who exactly like the
penis the clitoris and functional from the
birth and remain all life the
main erogenous zone ben that also of
concrete consequences
masturbation is seen as less
natural for girls and women
so besides the discomfort that it can
arouse when she practices
uncertain is found incapable what
not only deprives them of one of
source of well-being but also of a
way of developing all their
sexual pleasure potential
so starting from the idea that a woman and
supposed to enjoy by her vagina
thanks to the coming and going of a penis
some women mistakenly believe themselves
frigid or abnormal yet all
surveys show that few women are
fully satisfied by coitus
vaginal
for example in a recent study done
in the united states less than one in five has
declared letters and nearly three quarters
have said that stimulate at the same time
their clitoris was needed either for
reach orgasm either to have a
better enjoyment in a more
general ignorance around the clitoris
time to lock up straight couples
in andros sex scenarios entry
who are too often unsatisfactory
for women
Moreover, there is a
inequality also in the focus on orgasm
for example currently in the United States
95% of straight men 10 reach it
usually with their partner
against only 65% ​​of straight women
for homosexual women we notice that it
is already much better
in fact the ignorance of the clitoris
but also undue pressure on
men who mistakenly think they
must be effective with
their penis 1 that if they have a breakdown
erection also already worship too soon and
well they are unable to play
a woman
so for me it’s masturbation
who confronted me for the first time
at the omerta on the clitoris
I must have been 5 years old I did not understand
what I did everything I knew
it was super nice hyper
frustrating to stop once started
and probably shameful or abnormal
since no one was talking about it
not arranged with the explanation of
the genital apparatus in science class
Natural
it was not vagina that came to me these
sensations and obviously I had a
thing that no woman had me
never learned that I had a clitoris
when I finally knew I remember
to be exploring with a mirror without good
understand what they corresponded to
exactly
I also remember that during
years I kept thinking that
I was probably not normal because
what I did was what I
felt it alone or two ben that
did not stick with what I knew from
anatomy it’s only in 2004 that
I finally understood thanks to a
documentary by director michèle
dominici inspired by the research of
the urologist she no connell finally I
knew what the real
clitoris
I was able to put a mental image on
sensations that give them birth and
consistency later became a researcher
students the sexist tickets in the
biological discourse on differences
women men
I found that no textbooks
to correctly present the clitoris
when he was not completely absent
but was reduced to a little ball or
a flajolet without any explanation of
its function nor correct definition
while I was preparing videos
anti- sexist education aimed at
compensate for what was wrong in
manuals
so I had the idea to show in
one of them what he looked like
that’s how I was brought to
create a printable clitoral model
in 3d
to do this I peeled the whole
available scientific literature and
on that basis I defined a form
stylized and medium dimensions
plausible the fab lab of the city of
science in paris then helped me to
transform these data into a 3d model
and that’s how a first
version was created end of 2016 there is a
little bit improved with the help
a teacher 2 was keen on computer science and
we also made available a page
html which allows to see it under all
the seams
so here’s what it looks like we see
that it consists of two structures
connected by a network of veins in pink
clear is the one that contains the glans
the only visible part of the clitoris more
or less hidden by the hood and the
two cavernous body first joined
to form the body of the clitoris then get
separating to form his pillars
the whole measuring of the order of 10 cm in
average of the tip of the glans to that
of a pillar in darker pink these are
the bulbs they are made of a fabric
similar to that of cavernous bodies
these two types of tissues very
particular are the same as in the
penis they contain the cavities that get
swells of blood as a result of the 11
forgiveness under the effect of the excitement
sexual
so this excitement is also reflected
in women with an erection
it is governed by the same mechanisms
that of the penis and be told in
passing she is just as fast and
potentially untimely
then the pillars are attached to the waters of
pond and bulbs are straddling
the urethra and the vagina
I specify that the clitoris has no
ramifications inside the vagina and
that his direction does not have the effect
to open the vagina I also report that
the bulbs are not close to the canal
anal
in any case they are less so than the
penis bulb in men then
thanks to 3d printing
the model available online
free to obtain this object
it is used during svt for
to do sex education for
talk about excision or
intersex or even in
sex therapy manipulate it allows to have
a clear awareness of its form and
her size
it also shows the four
great places of his stimulation
each associated with sensations
different more or less appreciated according
the women
according to the moment and according to the method
used one can stimulate it at the level
of the glans the richest area in
sensory receptors at the level of
distal part of the body of the clitoris by
over the hood where also pass
sensory nerves and veins
important from the inside of the vagina to
level of the base of the clitoral body
good to note that for this the penis is
in principle not the ideal tool or
more indirectly by a compression
bulbs that will chase their blood towards
the really sensitive part of the
clitoris then the buzz generated by this
object began to move the
things for example in 2010 is a drawing
whole clitoris has finally appeared in
a textbook
but there is still much to do and
I think it’s really time
symbolic issues psychological and
practices associated with knowledge of
clitoris make it an element
must of progress towards equality
and towards women’s empowerment
of their sexuality
so I hope you too
help to disseminate this
knowledge
thank you
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